Here are the year’s most notable picture and middle grade books, selected by our children’s books editor.

Seamus Heaney was a visionary bulwark against small-mindedness. When the Irish poet died suddenly in 2013, at age 74, a benign literary presence was robbed from us. The posthumous publication of his ...

Patricia Smith, a Princeton professor of creative writing in the Lewis Center for the Arts, has received a National Book Award, the 2025 award for poetry, for “The Intentions of Thunder: New and ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Wellwater by Karen Solie (Picador/Farrar, Straus and Giroux) Shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize and a joint ...

In bookshop owner and former Congressman Steve Israel’s third novel, "The Einstein Conspiracy" (Compass Rose, $23.95 or $34.95), the author brings to life the story of a Nazi plot to abduct Albert ...

Gabrielle Myers, M.A. ’08, published her third poetry book this year. (Courtesy) Gabrielle Myers, M.A. ’08, explores the human experience in her new book of poetry. Points in the Network (Finishing ...

Ross Douthat addresses weighty topics in his new book, but his reasons for belief are often puzzling. Reviewed by Brian Schmisek. In A Heaven for Animals: A Catholic Case and Why It Matters, ...

If you click on links we provide, we may receive compensation. Five years after penning his memoir, Matthew McConaughey is debuting a new book, 'Poetry & Prayers' Andrea Mandell is the Senior Editor ...

Shannon Gramse’s “Lost Last Poems” is no ordinary poetry book, and there is neither anything “lost” nor “last” about the poems. Instead, the book is based upon a clever and entertaining conceit. In ...

When Sophie Fontaine, 29, of Richmond, Virginia, found what she thought was a book of baby memories in her mother's house, she wasn't prepared for the surprise inside. Fontaine stumbled upon the book ...

Matthew McConaughey has always had a Texas-twang way with words - most famously with his signature "Dazed and Confused" line, "alright, alright, alright." Now the actor has turned his words a poetry ...