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. […]
A recent New York Times profile on Orphan Black star Tatiana Maslany reflects that her masterful portrayals of Project Leda’s disparate clones represent a range of female TV archetypes, from Desperate Housewives to a European horror story to a police procedural. I’d like to argue that the members of the Clone Club also embody many of the archetypes observed in YA novels: the scrappy fighter, […]