The IBPA Benjamin Franklin Book Awards, which honor titles in 57 categories, will be renamed the IBPA Book Awards, and will ...

Sex testing of athletes has its roots in the Nazi influence on the 1936 Olympic games, according to this revelatory debut investigation. Journalist Waters recaps the early years Continue reading ...

Agard and Kitamura (The Rainmaker Danced) reteam to explore the role of language in experience—a heady-sounding theme conveyed in deeply affecting words and images. Creature-Of-No-Words, drawn ...

A fledgling teen Valkyrie tries to avert Ragnarök in Finch’s spirited, Norse mythology–inspired debut. Most assume Bryn Martel, her older sisters Prima and Reagan, and their Continue reading ...

Awoke’s memorable debut chronicles the coming-of-age of Dimkpa, a teenager with limited prospects in Nigeria’s hierarchical caste system. His father, the second-oldest man in their village ...

First love, betrayal, and grief intertwine in Larsen’s swoony debut romance. High school senior Nellie Samsin can’t wait for graduation, which is only 10 days away. She’s spent all of high ...

The suffocating ennui of girlhood and early womanhood pervades this subtly subversive collection from Escoria (Juliet the Maniac). In “Dust Particles,” girls bond over Ninja Turtles rather ...

A series of arson attacks lead to the discovery of a much deeper mystery in Auffarth’s jaw-dropping debut. In the small town of Riverside, Ga., police discover the scorched Continue reading ...

Rising from the Ashes: Los Angeles, 1992. Edward Jae Song Lee, Latasha Harlins, Rodney King, and a City on Fire ...

The Other Olympians: Fascism, Queerness, and the Making of Modern Sports Sex testing of athletes has its roots in the Nazi influence on the 1936 Olympic games, according to this revelatory debut ...

Japanese American basketball player Wataru Misaka (1923–2019)—the first player of color to compete in what is now the NBA—is the focus of this tenacity- celebrating biography. Describing him ...

Ojibwe teen Ezra Cloud hates his Northeast Minneapolis home; he’s tired of the bullying he endures from his peers regarding his heritage (“White people didn’t have to live that kind of fear ...