Mabel Segun, author of children’s books and Nigeria’s first female table tennis champion, died on 6 March 2025 aged 95.

To capture their experiences, Save the Children invited children from countries around the world to write short poems about COVID-19, life under lockdown, and how the pandemic has changed their lives.

It destroys children.” No, it doesn’t ... There are poets writing short poems just to help all of us recover from this person with a great deal of power saying our lives are worth nothing.

For my project, I also faced a dilemma: I no longer had access to one of my main interview subjects. I’d devised this art ...

Earth Day is celebrated around the world on April 22. Here's a list of fiction, poetry, nonfiction and books for kids with ...

“Alone,” a verse novel that takes the form of poems written by Maddie, was a smash hit nationwide, and frequent questions ...

The reason for this haste? A film written and directed by P. Lankesh, one of his literary heroes, had just been released, and ...

Benson said it “has the breadth and depth of an Alice Munro short ... poem. Its shifts between registers – from the quotidian ‘They were young and just married and only thinking / of ...

The Commonwealth Writers Prize has been among the most important and most visible of the world’s literary prizes. Although it ...

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Jill Escher, president of the National Council on Severe Autism, about Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy's remarks this month on autism.

A new month means new books! Here are some of the most anticipated Canadian titles for May 2025. If you're interested in poetry, the 2025 CBC Poetry Prize is accepting submissions until June 1. You ...

The review was hateful, patronising, repulsed, the ravings of a Catholic bigot. Little of it was about the book. Joseph writes, “It is inevitable that the serious writer should wish to write of ...