Sameer Pandya’s Our Beautiful Boys (Ballantine, 2025) drops us into the dark heart of suburbia—literally. Four teens enter a cave in Southern California; only three come out unscathed. What unfolds is ...

By 2050, over half of the adults and one third of the youth may be obese. Experts have called for urgent action to prevent obesity from becoming the global norm.

The study, published in the Journal of Climate Change and Health, reveals alarmingly high levels of anxiety, depression, and hopelessness among ...

Early on March 14, second graders at St. Saviour Catholic Academy in Park Slope listened intently as a guest read them a story about a saint and his loveable dog, but it wasn’t just the story that ...

The narrator of Michelle de Kretser’s sharp-witted novel Theory & Practice, a Sri Lankan–born grad student at a university in Melbourne, has a similar, self-flagellating feeling early in the book. She ...

Let’s answer the first question first. Washington Irving was an American writer. He lived in interesting times. In the week that he was born (April 1783), ...

With titles ranging from “Esli’s Big Attitude,” to “Runaway Robot," the storylines of these teen-written children's books ...

Researchers say mental health distress among young Israelis has jumped significantly since the October 7, 2023 start of the Iron Swords War. Scientists at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev found in ...

As the quest for more inclusivity in literary publications continues, here's how four Arab female authors -Najwa Zebian, Sara ...

Suleika Jaouad, a young cancer survivor and wife of musician Jon Batiste, is urging people to care for both their bodies and ...

A touching tale of a child prodigy born in the wrong place, El Jeramías captures what's truly great about Mexico.