Books

Portrait of Miami in 1980 through three watersheds: cocaine, Mariel, and the McDuffie riots.

A Disney executive phoned Alex Segura with an offer of a lifetime.

The Betsy’s commitment to the arts is visible down to the details.

Photographer Andy Sweet evokes the golden age of summer camp in the 1970s.

The Miami nonprofit won an honorable mention in the 2020 Innovations in Reading Prize.

If you’re returning to the world of reading after a long hiatus, it may be daunting to start.

While some of us are lucky enough to find time just to hit the gym after work, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor has managed to write several books. In addition to her two memoirs, 2014’s My Beloved World and The Beloved World of Sonia Sotomayor, she has also authored two…

The celebrated musician and writer will be at the Adrienne Arsht Center on Tuesday, December 17 to discuss her latest book, Year of the Monkey.

New Times alumni will return to their former Miami digs to discuss their respective book projects at the 2019 Miami Book Fair.

The Miami natives are taking part in the 2019 edition of the Miami Book Fair to share and discuss their young-adult book celebrating Haitian history and vodou imagery.

The Olympic bronze medalist and Dancing With the Stars contestant will discuss his memoir, Beautiful on the Outside, at the Miami Book Fair.

Mitchell Kaplan, Miami’s formidable bookseller, makes his way to a small table at the café in the corner of Books & Books in Coral Gables. His worn leather bag slouches on his right shoulder. It’s the end of the workday for Kaplan, as evidenced by his rolled-up sleeves and disheveled…

The second weekend of the Miami Book Fair is going to be a goldmine of information and community for Miami’s wide variety of LGBTQ+ people, with programming that aims to tell as many different kinds of stories as possible.

The author, whose work was recently the subject of a book-burning by students at Georgia Southern University, will speak about the immigrant experience in the United States during Miami Book Fair 2019.

The Miami-born author’s new book is the latest entry in his series following journalist-turned-detective Pete Fernandez.

Through episodes of sexual assault and depression and years of self-destructive behavior, it is the “ordinary girls” who provide the solidarity and support that memoir author Jaquira Díaz lacks at home.

In its 35th year, the Book Fair, which is presented by Miami Dade College and independent booksellers Books & Books, offers not only nearly 600 authors from around the globe, but also music and activations that entice youths to read and the community to interact in new ways with the written word.

Michael Deibert’s When the Sky Fell: Hurricane Maria and the United States traces the history of the US territory and what led up to the tragic aftermath of Hurricane Maria.

Miami author Edwidge Danticat wrote her newly released collection of eight short fiction stories over 12 years. The stories mainly unravel in South Florida — from Miami Lakes and Brickell to North Miami and Belle Glade — through New York and Caribbean travel points.

Elwood Curtis watches the news coming out of Florida from his adopted home of New York City. As articles in Tampa Bay, Miami, and even international newspapers are reporting that dozens of skeletons are being unearthed on the grounds of a boys’ ostensible “reform” school, Curtis remembers. He is one of the “Nickel Boys,” those who survived inhumane conditions and continued their route to an adulthood haunted by harrowing memories.

Bistro lights hang low within the dining hall of the Citadel in Little Haiti. At the center of the dimly lit space sits a woman crouched over her iPad doodling some phrases and graphic images to explain them. Amidst the cacophony of voices and dinnerware, Denise Miqueli is in her…

In 2017, José Atencio, owner of Milly’s Empanada Factory, and friends Bryan Herrero and Andre Alvarez set out to entice Miamians to come out west and experience the wealth of emerging talent at the West Kendall Zine Fest (WKZF).