Here are the most exciting books we're most looking forward to sharing in 2025 Lizz Schumer is the senior books editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2024. Her work has previously ...

achieved cult status in her lifetime as a science-fiction writer in Japan. But until recently, her work was relatively unknown overseas. It was not until an editor at London-based Verso Books ...

For the uninitiated, sorting one's rubbish can be a convoluted process in Japan - a country that boasts one of the world's strictest waste disposal rules. But in the city of Fukushima, things are ...

Volunteers dressed as Santa Claus will deliver donated books as Christmas gifts to children including those on the Noto Peninsula, which was devastated by a powerful earthquake on New Year's Day ...

This year’s top titles range from an alphabet book of quirky tunes to an authentic portrait of our nation Megan Gambino Senior Editor When I first started compiling this year-end book list ...

The 39 most anticipated books of 2025 include Susan Choi’s long-awaited follow-up to Trust Exercise, an essay collection from environmental justice activist Catherine Coleman Flowers ...

As the first half of the 2020s comes to a close, one global literary trend shows no signs of abating: a hunger for the stories of Japanese writers. The past five years saw authors from Japan win ...

These books examine complex issues of gender, equality and identity, offering core reading material for anyone interested in learning about social justice, empowerment and socio-cultural ...