This month, the death of a wonderful writer overshadows the list. 

What can be better than the perfect chocolate chip cookie?  In her cookbook , Magnolia Table, and here on the Amazon Book Review,  Joanna Gaines shares her recipe for a family favorite.

Though the great poets of the past have a special place in the pantheon, there's room for more timely verse. New people -- children, that is -- require new poems. These three recent books of poetry, for toddlers through teenagers, deserve space on their shelves.

Catherynne M. Valente talks with us about sentience, Eurovision, the dark roots of glam rock, and making jokes in space.

Celebrate the authors, illustrators and books that have added magic to, and enriched your life...

Davies, one of the most prolific and beloved writers of children's books about the natural world, talks about her work, her sources of inspiration, and what kids don't know about the environment around them.

Here's what we're reading this weekend.

What makes a great book? That's difficult to quantify, and it doesn't necessarily have anything to do with whether it's a best seller. Still, we took a look at how our 2017 top picks in fiction and nonfiction have fared.

In Barnes’s ruminative, finely wrought, and often wryly funny novel,  The Only Story is the story of love: the ideal of love, and love as it is lived. 

Misadventures sardonically told, the wisdom of natural disasters, and the wacky world of animal depravity highlight our picks for the best fact-based writing of the month.

Besides the daffodils and tulips, spring is turning up loads of exciting new young adult novels.  Here are some of the ones we're most looking forward to.

The Pulitzers were announced this week. Here's a roundup of the books and authors who were honored.

The challenges and joys of writing a long series that readers love.

Based on a novella by Jonathan Ames, You Were Never Really Here is a gritty new thriller from Amazon Studios starring Joaquin Phoenix. We spoke with the writer about the origins of the story, New York's "ugly beauty," and how a certain French sensibility made the movie possible.

Mars, mad kings, robots who get their heads ripped off for sport, and a galaxy-wide singing competition to determine the fate of the human race are featured among our favorite new science fiction and fantasy books of April.