The Week Junior Book Awards 2025 shortlist features 63 books across 13 categories. Celebrating excellence in children's literature, the awards aim to encourage reading for pleasure and boost young imaginations.
In a climate-ravaged future, Investigator Sadiya searches for a missing child, Casey. Landfall explores climate refugees, human compassion and social disruption through interwoven perspectives.
Legal challenges against arts funding cuts, censorship incidents (book burning, author's exile), and AI-generated content raise concerns about freedom of speech and the future of libraries & literature.
Reviews of 'Talk with Me of Home', 'Desire State', 'Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife', and 'Initial Transgression'. Diverse themes explored: family saga, biography, political cover-up, and romance.
A new book reveals Biden's aides allegedly took "undemocratic points" to counter Trump, even if it meant hiding Biden's decline and keeping him in power. Risk to democracy?
After a torpedo strike jammed a ship's tail, a resourceful Navy crew crafted a massive sail to steer home. Their ingenuity and teamwork saved the day, echoing the spirit of seafaring.
Vincent Delecroix's 'Little Boat' explores the banality of evil and institutional indifference surrounding a tragic drowning in the English Channel, highlighting the culpability of ordinary individuals.
Copyright concerns, AI-generated book lists, Authors Guild lawsuit, copyright office changes, book burning incident, library challenges, event issues, and IMLS updates defined book world's landscape in May 2025.
Reviews explore friendship, loss, and modern anxieties in novels. They touch on themes of social critique, women's rights in rural India, and reflections on tragedies and repetitive existence.
In Little World, a preserved girl's body sparks a journey across continents, intertwining with Matti's life, hunger, and ultimate liberation as she confronts the past and finds her purpose.
Grayling analyzes 'wokism,' social justice, and free speech, highlighting the risks of 'othering' and intolerance. He contrasts traditional leftist values with woke activism's potential for excess and cancel culture.
Key events in book publishing, libraries & copyright: conference, NEA grants rescinded, IMLS defense, curator termination, book burning. Facing copyright, AI & political issues.
