Divergent clearly has thrills, but it also movingly explores a more common adolescent anxietythe painful realization that coming into one's own sometimes means leaving family behind, both ideologically and physically.
The New York Times
Boom Town is the taut and transporting adult debut from bestselling author Nic Stone. Nic joins us to talk about the American South, Black womanhood, Atlanta, writing in a new form and more with host Miwa Messer. This episode of Poured Over was hosted by Miwa Messer and mixed by Harry Liang. New episodes land […]
On a chilly winter evening, there’s nothing like curling up with a mug of something warm and a good book. The second-best activity? Curling up with a mug of something warm and a film adaptation of a good book. We’ve got you covered on both fronts. Here are our suggestions for the best recent books […]
This year’s most thrilling teen releases take readers on journeys to postapocalyptic kingdoms, the bottom of the sea, a madcap Florida, and a former asylum that will make your skin crawl. Here are the books young readers will be putting on their wish lists this holiday season.
A teen novelist, set loose in New York City after her debut sells big. A girl mutated by fever, just discovering the extent of her new supernatural powers. The dregs of the human race, fighting to survive alien invasion. In the best teen books of the year, young protagonists navigate life in our world and at the end of it. They struggle to survive and thrive in imagined universes, dead-end towns, and deep under the sea. These are the year’s most moving, heart-pounding, and engrossing teen books.
There was only one bad thing about the Veronica Roth #BNAuthorEvent, which took place at the Union Square location in Manhattan on Sunday, March 15—it ended. Roth, who is charming and likable, instantly made friends with the audience, sharing surprising facts about herself, interesting anecdotes about her writing, and things about Divergent you probably didn’t know. […]