The Best Manga in America
This Japanese graphic books form is broader, bolder and more brilliant than you can imagine
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Young Adult
‘Sunrise On The Reaping’ Shows That There’s Still A Ton of Life in the ‘Hunger Games’ IP
Haymitch origin story surprisingly shreds
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BookTok-Inspired Austen Covers Flop with Fans Online
It’s too late to make a ‘First Impression’
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Disney Wants To Gender-Flip Your ‘Holes’
Is this project for kids, or for nostalgic millennial parents?
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Book Review: ‘Somewhere Beyond the Sea’
T.J. Klune’s second ‘Cerulean Sea’ book suffers from a touch of sequelitis
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The Endless Saga of ‘To Gaze Upon Wicked Gods’
The young-adult novel, subject to months of review-bombing controversy online, finally publishes today
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A Very Scary Christmas
Fantagraphics reprints a European anthology about the wicked monsters of Yuletide
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Perfect Enough
Temi Oh’s YA sci-fi novel ‘More Perfect’ imagines a universal hive mind
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Abdi Nazemian: The BFG Interview
Queer author and film producer opens up about his experiences to a fellow Iranian-American
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Adventures in the YA Bestselling Metaverse
Endless sagas, TikTok, and lots of blood
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How Well Do You Know ‘Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret’?
You must, you must, you must take our quiz ahead of the movie
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Puffin Books Bowdlerizes Roald Dahl
The despicable, dystopian story behind a publisher’s use of “Inclusion Ambassadors” to transform beloved children’s novels
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Mis-Brand Nubia
Actor Omar Epps creates a YA Afro-futurist world that’s basically an OK comic book without art
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Like ‘Sand’ Through The Hourglass
Why did it take Hugh Howey so long to write a sequel to ‘Sand’?
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The Best YA Abduction Stories
Teens love the genre, as long as the abductees eventually escape
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