The hot books of summer 2024 as chosen by the editors of Publishers Weekly. Picks for fiction, mystery, memoir, romance, children's books, YA, graphic novels, picture books, middle grade

Nelvana co-founder unveils his latest pivot, The Rather Unusual Adventures of Ice Cream Girl and Mr. Licorice, this weekend at the Toronto Comic Arts Festival

The first lady's surprise visit to The King's English Bookshop left customers and booksellers star struck.

Thomas Mayo and Kerry O’Brien’s The Voice to Parliament Handbook hailed ‘a poignant’ referendum reminder, winning alongside controversial sex education book Welcome to Sex

A new comic book will chart the highs and lows of American pop star Janet Jackson's career - from her upbringing in the Jackson superstar family, to "that" Super Bowl incident, to her return to the...

On her own, Converse created great and complex work, but what might the canon look like today if she found an audience in her lifetime? If she created in communion with other great art?

Among the headlines this week: John Oliver weighs in on book bans and libraries (and so do his viewers); more library drama in Alabama; and how to prepare for Pride month.

Most nonfiction isn’t fact-checked. The Kristi Noem saga could change that—but it probably won’t.

Who's eligible? How does judging work? And how do authors really feel about them?

Among the titles Milo reads one night, one is “about a monster under the bed. Milo should not have read that book.” Frightened, ...

Library book bans come from a rightwing playbook designed to continue a culture war that chips away at fundamental human rights protections

Peter Beagle’s I’m Afraid You’ve Got Dragons will finally see the light of day

It’s called The Lynx, after the wildcat native to the state. “We wanted something a little fierce,” she said.

During a late-night chat with Marissa Higgins, we discussed the claims that the US is experiencing a “renaissance” of LGBT literature—that queer books, in particular, are having “…

The next Lord of the Rings movie is starting to come together.

Tens of thousands of books are banned in US prisons, in an often arbitrary process that limits education opportunities

For 15 years, French viewers watched Mr. Pivot on his weekly show, “Apostrophes,” to decide what to read next.

New Zealand's largest book publisher has undergone drastic changes this week, leaving its future role in local publishing uncertain.

The two-time Pulitzer Prize winner said he’d made the decision after police were called in by university leadership to clear a student encampment.