In A Cowrie of Hope, the author Binwell Sinyangwe crafts a deeply moving narrative that captures the struggles of a widowed ...

Rhonesha Blaché’s presence is formidable. She often dresses in vibrant hues—yellows and reds — mixing and matching symbolic ...

Does history repeat itself? Or does it rhyme? WBUR literature writer Katherine Ouellette recommends eight books that remind ...

This week brings a number of promising new reads — but none more eagerly awaited than Sunrise on the Reaping. We offer 5 books to consider picking up.

In the novel “Theft,” by the recent Nobel laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah, three characters navigate messy relationships in 1980s ...

Since its founding, Books for Africa has collected and donated nearly 3,500 books to schools across the continent and raised ...

FAIRMONT — As a child growing up in Fairmont, 57-year-old Ed Ashton could be found playing basketball, running track or swimming, and when he wasn’t pursuing sports, he was reading a book or ...

Kelly Kaschula’s enchanting narratives are set to inspire not just children, but adults too. As she prepares to release her ...

Old-school action movies. Modern superhero movies. Cosy mystery novels. Murder-of-the-week police procedurals. Slasher flicks. The Kardashians. The list goes on and on. I know the august pages of ...

The Nigerian American author’s first novel in 12 years depicts troubled relations between men and women—but no tidy ...

The play about the late former wife of Nelson Mandela, South Africa's first Black president, is adapted from the novel “The Cry of Winnie Mandela” by Njabulo Ndebele. It explores themes of loneliness, ...