Some people watch the Oscars. Others love the Grammy’s. But every January, I find myself glued to the live video feed of my favorite award ceremony of the year: the American Library Association’s Youth Media Awards....

What’s more exciting than the Oscars, the Olympics, and the American Idol finale put together? If you’re a literature lover in the UK, the answer is the annual Booker Prize race. Since 1968 the Booker has been awarded to the be...

It’s a tribute to David Lodge’s writing skill that I found this novel absorbing and poignant even though I’ve never read anything by H.G. Wells and have no particular interest in him. As a biographical novel about a well-known ...

The book trailer for Fancy Clapping, Mark D. Dunn’s second collection of poetry, is oddly mesmerizing. Rather than offers a preview of Fancy Clapping’s lines or a description of what its readers might expect, the trailer is com...

Although I’ve lived in the United Kingdom for eight years now, I’ve never made the (relatively) short jaunt over to Italy. But, like many of you, I feel I know the country’s cities and countryside through the media of film and ...

I read The Testing in a single sitting. It's that kind of book. I doubt it will get any nominations for the Pulitzer or the Printz, but that's not the point. If you're looking for a fast-paced, adrenaline-filled novel that cele...

You’ve heard that you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover, but what about judging books by their titles? Despite the perennial admonitions from good-natured and tolerant book-lovers, I daresay we all do it all the time: take on...