books

The author shares the books, including unexpected picks, that have inspired her.

The literary icon had been hospitalized after falling ill.

The novella is about a young American college student whose plans to marry a Swahili man in Kenya fall apart when the region is engulfed in civil war.

The fifth in our series of must-read recommendations from independent booksellers. This week: Community Book Center in New Orleans

Oakland artist Janine Macbeth’s new children’s book explores gender equity–as opposed to mere equality–in the home.

His new novel features an undocumented Sikh immigrant caught in a political thriller.

One of the nation’s most well-known black bookstores is closing its doors. But it’s also trying to write a story that features more than the usual Amazon-killed-us narrative.

Junot Díaz, the

Dominican-American, Pulitzer Prize winning Fiction author is releasing a new collection of short stories in September.

The grandaughter of the partners that opened the nation’s oldest independent African-American owned bookstore says a recent Amazon.com promotion took competition a little too far.