A New York City program wants to foster student journalism. It’s as vexed by reader engagement as the professionals are.

These books confront readers with the recent past and distant future, bring them to southeastern Africa and an alternative Japan, and bedeck their pages with subversive cartoons and lush landscapes.

There's not a lot of young adult, mystery, comedy books,” author CL Montblanc says. “I just saw a lot of potential there for ...

I used to do theater. I say “do theater,” because I did it all: I acted, I directed, I wrote. I designed costumes, I studied the Meisner technique, I rolled around on the floor in a leotard—I even ...