NPR speaks with writer Kiese Laymon about his new children's book "City Summer, Country Summer," in which three Black boys form a deep connection during one transformative summer in the South.

Chang’s 2016 comic debut novel follows Charles, a cosmetics entrepreneur who lost pretty much everything in the 2008 financial crisis, and who takes a road trip, with his wife and kids in tow, from ...

Julie Banderas’ latest children’s book, "A Monumental Mistake," teaches ... "I feel the hatred in this country as it's also at an all-time high," she said. "My kids, they’re not even allowed ...

Tommy Orange and Kaveh Akbar are on the road between events when I beam into ... however disconnected it was from the rest of the book.” And when reading Martyr! with this awareness—with ...