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No One Would Do What the Lamberts Have Done There are mama bears, and then there’s Sally Lambert, mother of teenagers Ree and Toby, plus Champ the Welsh terrier. She believes “Once you’ve got a dog, you’ve got . ....

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more.The Girl With the...

How to Commit a Postcolonial Murder is a powerhouse. It’s a bracing story of abuse and protection bolstered by virtuosic writing that is simultaneously spare and poetic, subtle and brutal. At the center of this striking literary debut are two...

O n the first track of Lily Allen’s breakup album West End Girl, we hear a long phone call that leads to a marriage’s unravelling. Allen listens, confused then hurt, for almost two minutes as a presumed husband on the other...

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Emily has a PhD in English from the University of Southern Mississippi, MS, and she has an MFA in Creative Writing from GCSU...

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Rachel Rosenberg has been writing since she was a child—at 13, she was published alongside celebs and fellow teens in Chicken Soup For...

This year marks 100 years since the first demonstration of television in London. Elizabeth II sent the first royal email in 1976. The first meeting of the Lancashire Association of Change Ringers took place in 1876. All notable anniversaries. But I’m going...

Percival Everett’s visionary and necessary reimagining of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, James, is a standout in an era of retellings. Everett matches Mark Twain in voice, tale-spinning talent and humor, while deeply engaging with what Twain failed to...

We might have a couple more weeks of 2025 ahead of us, and while there are still a handful of new YA book releases to come, it’s also the time of year when we’re looking ahead and building our...