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Released this week, "The Land of Sweet Forever" includes stories the author wrote in the years before her debut novel became ...

As "The Land of Sweet Forver" is released, reviewers have differing ideas on the impact of publishing Harper Lee’s newly discovered essays will have on her legacy.

The British royal family is under intense scrutiny as Virginia Giuffre's memoir hits bookstores. Giuffre, an accuser of ...

The House in the Cerulean Sea” by T.J. Klune If you were sucked into the magical worlds of “The Land of Stories” and “Harry ...

From 'Lethal Weapon' to 'Play Dirty,' Moviefone counts down every film Shane Black has ever written or directed including his ...

The fight against book bans is entering a new phase, as the number of bans plummets but concerns grow that librarians and teachers, looking to stay out of the fray, are self-censoring. Data shows a ...

Book censorship is … becoming the norm? For those who honor the work and dedication of our librarians, booksellers, authors and fellow readers, that’s the disturbing conclusion of a just-published PEN ...

Listen to more stories on the Noa app. “A writer,” Saul Bellow once observed, “is a reader moved to emulation.” But what if it’s also the other way around? What if, when we think about writing, we are ...

This is an epic novel to be savored. At nearly 700 pages, this multi-character, multi-stranded story explores exile and ...

Read all of Slate’s stories about the 25 Greatest Picture Books of the Past 25 Years. On Oct. 8, 2010, the New York Times ran a story on its front page: “Picture Books No Longer a Staple for Children.