Jonathan Alexander talks with Jack Zipes about “Yussuf the Ostrich” and “Keedle, the Great.”...

Renee Hudson sees in Adam Silvera’s YA a thoughtful examination of what it means to engage in policing over community forms of care....

Renee Hudson worries over anti-Indigeneity in the novels of Isabel Ibañez....

A new entry in an award-winning series of YA epic fantasies....

Sharanya Manivannan discusses her new books, “Incantations Over Water” and “Mermaids in the Moonlight.”...

A new YA novel that shatters stereotypes of Black masculinity and fatherhood....

A chat with the author of a new biography of the creator of Harriet the Spy....

Two new YA novels explore the power of meritocratic myths in Asian American life....

The new film “Enola Holmes” illustrates a cultural shift in how girlhood is conceptualized and understood....

Samira Ahmed’s new YA novel about a mixed-race girl who struggles to undo an Orientalist myth....

The Poppy Wars trilogy offers an intense and compelling revisioning of modern China....

Pat LaMarche discusses her first YA novel and the myths about poverty it rebuts....

The latest installment in the “Twilight” series retells the story from Edward’s perspective....

Dylan Farrow’s YA novel explores the fantastic power of gaslighting and false narratives....

Reckoning with the legacies of racism requires confronting the unique perils faced by ethnic Asian persons and communities....

There’s greater representation of neurodiversity in pop culture today, though more visibility doesn’t always mean better visibility....

On “Lao Lao of Dragon Mountain,” the much-loved children’s classic about a young Chinese artist, and its writer, a white woman from Lancashire....