Books

Areli Morales, an elementary substitute teacher in New York, shares her story of coming to the U.S. as an undocumented child and her experience as a DACA recipient in her debut children's book, "Areli is a Dreamer."

Jessica Hopper is a pioneer in the field of music criticism. She examines the music of women — in many contexts, from songwriters to producers — through an intersectional feminist lens.

In his debut novel, award-winning author and Brownsville-native Rudy Ruiz weaves together the past and present to tell the tale of a son of impoverished immigrants breaking a mystical family curse and fighting to win back the love of his doomed youthful romance.

Families play a big part in Elizabeth McCracken’s latest story collection, The Souvenir Museum.

Peter Orner and Yvette Benavides discuss "The Children Stay" by Alice Munro.

Ibram X. Kendi has been reading a lot of books about "the human rainbow" to his daughter — so we asked him to recommend some books kids can read to gain a better understanding of race in America.

Poems give language and voice to the things that are sometimes incommunicable. Edward Hirsch knows something about this.

In “Forget the Alamo: The Rise and Fall of an America Myth,” Chris Tomlinson, Bryan Burrough and Jason Stanford explore the Alamo’s “actual” history rather than its lore.

Claire Fuller is back with a new novel. This time, in Unsettled Ground, she brings us a darkly poignant tale about 51-year-old twins who still live at home with their mother and whose lives are devastated by her untimely death — and the secrets she left behind.

A new anthology of the modern American short story offers a wonderfully varied collection of voices, forms and styles.