Books

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).

Everywhere Cecile Richards goes, women ask her one question: “What should I do?” The organizer, women’s health advocate, and self-described troublemaker recently spoke at the South by Southwest Festival in Austin, Texas. There, she recalls, “The number one question, no matter what the topic of conversation, the question on every…

“It all started at an antique show,” says author Deborah Pollack over the phone with New Times. As she speaks, it’s easy to envision the day she’s describing: a breezy South Florida afternoon; her strolling through an open-air market, fingering the unique items on display. But that day, out…

Irvine Welsh, the author of the youth and drug culture touchstone “Trainspotting,” mentions Miami only in passing in his latest novel, “Dead Men’s Trousers.” But the Scottish writer is grateful to be back in his adopted hometown. “I’ve been in [the United Kingdom] the last couple of months. It’s so dreary and dark. We have no seasons in Scotland — it’s one long, dreary fall.”

Donald Trump towers over everyone else in the picture. The year is 1997, and he’s laughing it up with Gloria Estefan, Jennifer Lopez, and Shakira. It’s like the Mount Rushmore of Latinas. “The funny thing is, in that picture of everybody interacting, the only one looking in the camera is Shakira,” says Manny Hernandez, the longtime Miami-based photographer…

Whether you were born and raised in Florida or made it your home later in life, you’ve heard the smack talk: There’s no culture in the Sunshine State. And, hey, we’ll be the first ones to admit Florida is a weird place: Alligators eat men, and men eat faces, while…