Autumn: great season, or GREATEST season? It’s more than the candy corn, unholy latte hybrids, and pleasure of taking your favorite sweaters out of storage. There’s something in the air right now, a chilly undertone that half makes you want to run around in the brisk, and half makes you want to hide indoors with […]
Andrew Smith writes some of the richest, realest fiction on the YA shelves, even when he’s writing about nightmarish alternate worlds and grasshopper plagues. In February’s genre-bending Grasshopper Jungle, a delicate love triangle between a sexually confused boy and his girlfriend and male best friend plays out against the backdrop of a terrifying man-eating bug apocalypse. […]
Did you think you’d take a quick reading break after rushing to discover all the literary wonders you wanted to get to before the end of 2016? You thought wrong. January kicks off 2017 in style, with a pack of thrilling new releases that includes a hotly anticipated debut fantasy, a heartbreaking story of unwanted reality TV […]