Twice is a charming, easy read that makes you pause and reflect: do second chances really guarantee an improved outcome? It’s ...

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We present an extract from Every One Still Here, the debut short story collection by Liadan Ní Chuinn. A young girl spends her days on a double-decker bus. A bride-to-be prays to St Valentine's bones.

Nearly 20 years after her book The Inheritance of Loss was published, Kiran Desai is finally back with her third novel: The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny, which has already been shortlisted for the ...

MAC: Slate has asked us—indeed hired us—to talk about their big picture-book package, “The 25 Best Picture Books of the Past 25 Years.” (Did you like how I called it a “package”? Did it make me sound ...