The Charred Remains of the Fairy Tale
A Nigerian author’s new novel shows why #BringOurGirlsHome is a Western fantasy....
The Mirror and the Window: An Interview With Saadia Faruqi
A Pakistani-American author and activist on her new children’s book series, “Yasmin.”...
A Sea Monster Calls
A revisionist take on Moby-Dick with contemporary sociopolitical echoes....
Growing Up and Moving On
How YA fiction deals with sexual abuse in the #MeToo era....
“So Many Stories to Tell”: A Conversation with Maurene Goo
Steph Cha speaks to Korean-American novelist Maurene Goo about her latest, “The Way You Make Me Feel.”...
Scripts of Girlhood: An Interview with Hollie Tommasino
An interview with the designer of “The Baby-Sitters Club” novels....
Boarding School Magic
Why is young adult fiction so enamored of boarding school life?...
World Split Open: The Poetry of Adolescent Girlhood
In "The Poet X," a teenage Dominican girl in Harlem discovers herself through slam poetry....
Pedagogic, Not Didactic: Michael Cart on Young Adult Fiction
On the growing sophistication of YA fiction and its audience....
Ancient Folklore with a Modern Twist
Kicking off a YA series about a New Jersey princess (a real one)....
A Wider World of Reading
Kristin Van Tassel explores Juan Villoro's "The Wild Book."...
Meg Murry’s Glasses
Sarah Mesle on how Madeleine L’Engle’s and Ava DuVernay’s "A Wrinkle in Time" diverge around their contrasting ethics of the visual....
