(JNS) After a year of war, Israel still finds itself fighting on two fronts, disrupting life in the south and north of the country. Adults have trouble understanding and finding ways to cope. Even ...

A servant girl escapes into the woods from the Jamestown colony in 1609, during the “starving time,” in Lauren Groff’s seventh book, The Vaster Wilds (Riverhead, Sept.). The historical novel ...

As an “oratory” is a place of prayer, Richard Robbins’ new book of poems carries a fitting title, “The Oratory of All Souls.” The collection feels like a chapel of the mind, and Robbins, in his ...

Hybrid humans, outer space travel and a deadly virus are some of the elements in “The Existence,” a book authored by Nia Sharath, a seventh-grader at Ingomar Middle School at North Allegheny. Set in ...

Nick Bantock’s “Griffin and Sabine” was published in 1991. I first encountered it in Brent Books, the glorious, now-vanished shop on Michigan Avenue in downtown Chicago. It was right up front, on a ...