Her books are a gateway into the world of reading for so many children, and I know they were important to many of us here at Picturestart…

Ishiguro returns to near-future science fiction, working in a register similar to that of his classic NEVER LET ME GO…

A hilarious comedic anthology showcasing the work of 150 female and non-binary comedians…

The novel follows an ensemble cast of characters in a small Oregon town as they grapple with motherhood, grief, difficult marriages…

I’d definitely recommend the book for both fantasy-lovers and conspiracy theory / secret society-lover…

While Stoppard has always been one of my favorite playwrights, I didn’t know how fascinating his upbringing was!

It’s the story of a young man named Tiller, who returns to New Jersey after a crazy and traumatic year living abroad…

DETRANSITION, BABY is the sort of book you read and immediately want to discuss with everyone you know…

In this week’s edition of “I’ve been living under a rock and finally read a book everybody else read last year,” I want to talk about THE NICKEL BOYS…

The book is about a young Hollywood assistant named Rachel who has a very complicated relationship with food and with her body…

There have been a lot of books/movies/shows that perfectly encapsulate the Trump era. But one in particular has stuck with me…

The prospect of reading a story exclusively set in the corner of a room, after spending the better part of a year in the corner of a room was…

The book is an adaptation of a class Saunders teaches on the 19th-century Russian short, analyzing seven classic stories from that period…

It’s a gorgeously written, totally heartbreaking story about the lengths we go to for family (and for survival)…

The first half of this gorgeously written novel centers on three women grappling with their bodies…

It’s effectively THE SECRET HISTORY by way of Orthodox Judaism, following a young man named Ari Eden as he moves…

President Obama’s latest is here—and it’s shattering all the sales records for presidential memoirs…

The book documents the origins of the AIDS crisis and how the spread of the disease inspired Tony Kushner to write his first draft of the play…

It’s an incredibly detailed, nail-biting account of the murder of a Harvard grad student in 1969…