In an essay that accompanied the 2021 exhibit “Speechless: The Art of Wordless Picture Books,” at the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art, the children’s-book author David Wiesner laid down milestones... Read more »
The Reformatory by Tananarive Due (Titan, £9.99)Set in 1950 in segregated Florida, and inspired, like Colson Whitehead’s The Nickel Boys, by the violent abuse and deaths of Black children sent to the... Read more »
Reading print texts improves comprehension more than reading digital materials does, according to a new study. Researchers at the University of Valencia analysed more than two dozen studies on reading comprehension published... Read more »
Black Holes: The End of the Universe? by John Taylor was the first book I bought with my own hard-earned cash from a poorly paid paper round. It was 1974, I was 11. It was... Read more »
A west London library has had to temporarily close after bedbugs were found in returned books. It was announced on Monday that Northolt library in West Ealing would be closed until the... Read more »
The latest instalment of Alice Oseman’s LGBTQ+ young adult Heartstopper series has become the UK’s fastest-selling graphic novel ever. Heartstopper Volume 5 sold 60,012 copies in the first three days since its... Read more »
Britain, thought Thomas Paine, needed to be destroyed. Its monarchy must be toppled, its empire broken up and the mercantile system that propped up this debt-ridden, monstrous pariah state abolished. Only then... Read more »
Newly arrived from Lagos, in the early nineties, Andrew Dosunmu, solitary and broke, sometimes slept in the Paris Metro. He had little in his possession beyond his clothes. And it was his... Read more »
Public Books and the Sydney Review of Books have partnered to exchange a series of articles with international concerns. Today’s article, “Sublime Neutrality,” by Ursula Robinson-Shaw, was originally published by the SRB on July 10,... Read more »