The Young Adult or YA genre features resourceful protagonists who are, often, still figuring things out about the world and themselves. Among readers and writers of YA, there are those who rankle at ...

Note: This essay on the Hunger Games phenomenon and the rise and fall of YA dystopias was originally published in 2021. It has been updated and republished due to the 2023 release of the prequel movie ...

What better way to get in the mood for back to school (or reconcile yourself to the fact that your school days are long over) than with a book that luxuriates in the academia aesthetic? These five ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. From the moment author Maureen Johnson finished her hugely successful Truly Devious trilogy, she knew she wanted to write another ...

When Japanese animated film director Hayao Miyazaki announced in 2017 that he was coming out of retirement to make a film about the classic Japanese coming-of-age novel How Do You Live?, interest in ...