Articles

Reviews

• Mette Ivie Harrison on Strings Attached by Judy Blundell August 2nd, 2011

  “Triplets”

• Javier Grillo-Marxuach on Small as an Elephant by Jennifer Richard Jacobson August 2nd, 2011

  “Elephant Families”

• Grace Krilanovich on Kids of the Black Hole: Punk Rock in Postsuburban California by Dewar MacLeod August 4th, 2011

  “Ambush Haircuts”

• Brian Doherty on 75 Years of DC Comics and The Comics: An Illustrated History of Comic Strip Art 1895-2010 by Paul Levitz and Jerry Robinson August 30th, 2011

  “Illustrated History”

• Margaret Stohl on Zora and Me by Victoria Bond May 3rd, 2011

  “Saving Folks, Solving Mysteries”

• David Roth on 21 by Wilfred Santiago January 9th, 2012

  “Household Saint”

• Jessica Freeman-Slade on My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me: Forty New Fairy Tales by and June 8th, 2011

  “Once Children”

• Rigoberto González on We the Animals by Justin Torres October 7th, 2011

  “Growing Up”

• Merrill Markoe on Rin Tin Tin: The Life and the Legend by Susan Orlean October 10th, 2011

  “Dog Poetry”

• Carol Snow on Teenie by Christopher Grant October 7th, 2011

  “Discovering Tight Clothing”

• Natalie Standiford on Wildwood and The Apothecary by Colin Meloy and Maile Meloy January 18th, 2012

  “All in the Family”

• Susan Salter Reynolds on The Apothecary by Maile Meloy November 19th, 2011

  “Discoveries: Maile Meloy”

• Susan Salter Reynolds on Charles Dickens by Jane Smiley January 7th, 2012

  “Discoveries: Jane Smiley”

• Denise Hamilton on Pink Smog: Becoming Weetzie Bat by Francesca Lia Block April 23rd, 2012

  “Before Sunset”

• Susan Salter Reynolds on The Fault in our Stars by John Green May 6th, 2012

  “Only the Good”

• Nnedi Okorafor on The Chaos by Nalo Hopkinson May 9th, 2012

  “Magical Mash-up”

• Mike Sonksen on Every Thing On It by Shel Silverstein May 17th, 2012

  “Growing Down”

• Jessica Stites on Railsea by China Miéville May 25th, 2012

  “SalvagePunk”

• James Guida on Lamberto, Lamberto, Lamberto and The Grammar of Fantasy by Gianni Rodari July 5th, 2012

  “The Delightful is Useful”

• Sarah Beth Durst on Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine July 11th, 2012

  “Reinventing the Tale”

• Sarah Skilton on Ash by Malinda Lo July 12th, 2012

  “A Beautiful Mask”

• Juliana Romano on Delirium and Pandemonium by Lauren Oliver and Lauren Oliver August 4th, 2012

  “Love Sick”

• Ian Scheffler on The Mansion of Happiness by Jill Lepore September 3rd, 2012

  “The More Things Change: Jill Lepore's History of Life and Death”

• Sherri Smith on The Fire Rose by Mercedes Lackey October 11th, 2012

  “A Rose by Any Name”

• Merrie Haskell on Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast by Robin McKinley October 11th, 2012

  “A Timeless Romance”

• Heather Tomlinson on Beast by Donna Jo Napoli October 11th, 2012

  “Inside his Skin”

• Jack Zipes on Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm and Gossip from the Forest by Philip Pullman and Sara Maitland November 12th, 2012

  “Into the Woods Again and Again: The Profound Legacy of Grimms' Fairy Tales”

• Lee Konstantinou on A Clockwork Orange and The Wanting Seed by Anthony Burgess November 14th, 2012

  “Barbarians at the Wormhole: On Anthony Burgess”

• Jenna Brager on A Wrinkle in Time by Hope Larson December 10th, 2012

  “Back in the Fold: On 'A Wrinkle in Time: The Graphic Novel'”

• Sarah Mesle on The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater February 21st, 2013

  “Kisses, Kings, Camaros: Maggie Stiefvater’s Rural Epic”

• Sara Zarr on Meet the Austins by Madeleine L'Engle March 12th, 2013

  “Meeting the Austins Again”

• Victoria de Zwaan on Six-Gun Snow White by Catherynne M. Valente March 13th, 2013

  “Old Scripts, Contemporary Versions”

• Jessica Langer on Sister Mine by Nalo Hopkinson March 23rd, 2013

  “Dysfunctional Fabulist Families”

• Roxane Gay on Uses For Boys by Erica Lorraine Scheidt May 14th, 2013

  “To Be Seen, To Be Heard: Erica Lorraine Scheidt's "Uses For Boys"”

• Kristen Kittscher on When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead May 14th, 2013

  “Tesser Well: Rebecca Stead's "When You Reach Me"”

Essays

• The Afterlife of Tintin by Jenny Hendrix December 27th, 2011
• Books That Made Us: Charlotte’s Web by Kerry Madden August 24th, 2011
• Secret Histories by John Rieder July 11th, 2011
• Three Novels by Susan Salter Reynolds November 19th, 2011
• Books That Made Us: The Phantom Tollbooth by Chelsey Philpot November 17th, 2011
• Novels Are Not the Only Books by Audrey Bilger April 20th, 2012
• Weetzie Bat Meets the Genie by Bennett Madison April 23rd, 2012
• Dead or Straight: The Conundrum of the Lesbian Coming-of-Age Story by Laura Goode May 2nd, 2012
• Discoveries: Tom Bissell, April Bernard, James Franco, John Green, Sarah Manguso by Susan Salter Reynolds May 6th, 2012
• A Grosser Power: A Contrarian Look at The Hunger Games by Ned Vizzini May 8th, 2012
• Books That Made Us: James and The Giant Peach by Janelle Brown May 31st, 2012
• Nostalgies: James and The Giant Peach by Paul Acampora and April Henry May 31st, 2012
• On the Shore with Tyrell and Bronxwood by Gigi Amateau June 1st, 2012
• YAC Hit List: The Fairy List by Aprilynne Pike June 25th, 2012
• What’s Wrong With a Happy Childhood? by Cylin Busby July 2nd, 2012
• LARBlog: Castellucci’s Class Notes by Cecil Castellucci July 7th, 2012
• The Nature of Cinderella by Marie Rutkoski July 9th, 2012
• YAC HIT LIST: Books and Ballet by Meg Howrey September 26th, 2012
• Laura Ingalls Wilder and the Wolves by Caroline Fraser October 10th, 2012
• The Most Romantic Story Ever Told by Aimee Bender October 11th, 2012
• Halloween Fiction Roundtable by Toby Barlow, Francesca Lia Block, Stefan Kiesbye, Matthew Specktor and Susan Straight October 31st, 2012
• YA Fiction and the End of Boys by Sarah Mesle November 8th, 2012
• Judy Blume: Three Essays by Nell Beram, Nina Berry and Andrea Kleine November 27th, 2012
• YAC HIT LIST: The Gamer List December 8th, 2012
• Enchantment Dispelled: On Peter Jackson's 'The Hobbit' by Ilana Teitelbaum January 1st, 2013
• Self-Published Anonymous by Dyanne Asimow January 6th, 2013
• YAC Hit List: Idiosyncrasy by David Levithan March 5th, 2013