by Onjali Q. Raúf

In London sometime in the 2010s, nine-year-old Alexa is excited for the new school year to start. She’s most looking forward to spending time with her best friends, Tom, Josie, and Michael. During the

by Anton Chekhov

Popova is a young widow dutifully mourning her husband by locking herself in her estate with only her servant, Luka, for company. One day, local landowner Smirnov barges in and demands she pay him imm

by Tahereh Mafi

The year is 2002, and Shirin is a 16-year-old American Muslim girl who’s grown tired of constantly moving from town to town and being subjected to racism and ignorance at each new school she attends.

by Anna Quindlen

While preparing dinner one night in late winter, Annie Brown, 37-year-old mother of four young children—Ali (13), Ant (11), Benjy (8), and Jamie (6)—and wife of Bill Brown, suddenly dies of an aneurys

by David Nicholls

In the early hours of July 15, 1988, University of Edinburgh students Dexter Mayhew and Emma Morley spend the night together. The two are very different: whereas Emma comes from a working-class backgr

by Jonathan Haidt

Jonathan Haidt opens The Anxious Generation with a thought experiment: imagine a billionaire selecting children to colonize Mars, exposing them to an untested environment with unknown risks. Without p