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What trends in adult lit­er­a­ture often sees its reflec­tion in children’s pub­li­ca­tions — and now, more than ever, the oth­er way around. In review­ing the 2014 – 2015 JBC…

Ear­li­er this week, Jes­si­ca Lamb-Shapiro wrote about writ­ing a book on self-help. The book, Promise Land: My Jour­ney through Amer­i­ca’s Self-Help Cul­ture, is now…

Post­ed by Nat BernsteinWhether home­birthing is your steez or not, there’s no deny­ing the delight of this book cover:In the Spir­it of Home­birth: Mod­ern Women, an…

by Elise Coop­erThe Ice Cream Queen of Orchard Street by Susan Jane Gilman is a very enjoy­able and insight­ful book. Span­ning over sev­en­ty years, from the ear­ly 1900s…

Jes­si­ca Lamb-Shapiro has writ­ten for the New York Times Mag­a­zine, Time, and The Believ­er. Her book, Promise Land: My Jour­ney through Amer­i­ca’s Self-Help Cul­ture, is now…

This week, Zoe Fish­man— the author of Sav­ing Ruth, Bal­anc­ing Acts, and her lat­est, Dri­ving Lessons— blogs for The Post­script on her own dri­ving lessons and the…