A much-anticipated young-adult debut taps into a tradition of speculative fiction rooted in African culture.
A fantastical new novel from Karen Russell turns the whispered secrets of a Dust Bowl town into a bold metaphor for repressed history.
How the novelist turned the violence and randomness of war into a cosmic joke
The author is willing to let her main character be both her double and the butt of her joke.
The Academy has a new rule to address this problem. Good luck with enforcing that.
Kazuo Ishiguro, master of buried secrets, on losing the past
The novel that inspired the film Jaws was decidedly populist. The movie took a different turn.
The author and illustrator Brian Selznick discusses how Maurice Sendak showed him the power of picture books.
CHARLOTTE JACSON, who is the author of seven juveniles, is children’s book editor for the San Francisco CHRONICLE.