This week, Janine Joseph delivers 40 "hard-hitting and formally inventive poems" in her second collection, Decade of the Brain; Aubrey Gordon's "smart and informative" "You Just Need to Lose Weight" debunks 20 common myths about fat people; and in the "refreshing, revealing" picture book The Fire of Stars, Kirsten W. Larson and Katherine Roy "perfectly pair" Cecilia Payne's growth from inquisitive girl to celebrated astronomer with the birth of a star. Plus so many more!
In The Writer's Life, British poet Keiran Goddard discusses his debut novel, Hourglass--a perfect Valentine's Day read, in which the hourglass itself becomes a metaphor for equalizing past, present and future in a romantic relationship.
[A correction to last week's issue headline: we misspelled the author's name for our interview with Newbery winner Admina Luqman-Dawson. Our apologies!]