This week we review Forbidden Notebook by Alba de Céspedes, first published in Italy in 1952 and translated by Ann Goldstein, "as relevant today as it was in postwar Italy"; Queenie, an "outstanding graphic collaboration" between Aurélie Lévy and Elizabeth Colomba starring 1930s Harlem legend Stephanie St. Clair; and Krystal Marquis's captivating debut, The Davenports, about four young Black women navigating love and society in early 20th-century Chicago. And so many more!
In The Writer's Life, V, the author of The Vagina Monologues formerly known as Eve Ensler, talks about her new book Reckoning. Plus: the biggest awards for youth were announced by ALA on Monday, and we spoke with Newbery Medalist and Coretta Scott King Author Award winner Amina Luqman-Dawson about her book Freewater and what these awards mean to her.