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The author of the blockbuster erotica trilogy tells Alexandra Alter how she wants ‘The Mister’, her first work of original fiction since she became an international phenomenon, to start a new phase of her career EL James does not like speaking to journalists, who often want to know deeply personal things, like how much money she makes and whether she has a sex dungeon in her basement. Beneath the frothy fantasy, The Mister deals with unexpectedly weighty topics like economic inequality, the plight of undocumented workers, the oppression of women in conservative societies and the way social institutions and governments elevate the wealthy and powerful and exploit the vulnerable. James wants to show me some nipple clamps she helped design in collaboration with the sex-toy maker Lovehoney, a British company that produced a line of Fifty Shades-themed erotic accessories. [...]James chooses a dress of her own that she brought from home, a long blue gown with a deep V-neck, which she bought for one of the Fifty Shades movie premieres.

For native people, Orange writes, cities and towns themselves represent the absence of a homeland – a lost world of “buried ancestral land, glass and concrete and wire and steel, unreturnable covered memory. Orange opens his novel with a meditation on the symbolism of the Indian head – an image that appears on coins, flags and team uniforms as seemingly benign décor, but also recalls centuries of violence against indigenous people, tracing back to 17th century massacres when the heads of slaughtered native people were displayed on spikes. (After Alexie was accused of harassment by multiple women, both Orange and Mailhot asked their publishers to remove his endorsements from their books.) The accusations against Alexie, who is perhaps the most prominent contemporary Native American writer, were painful for his former students and other young indigenous writers who looked up to him.

More than a dozen new and forthcoming titles feature young Muslim refugees as protagonists, ranging from picture books aimed at readers as young as 4 to a cluster of novels for middle and high school students that delve into the murkier aspects of the refugee crisis. The wave of children’s books about Muslim asylum seekers is arriving amid the worst refugee crisis the world has seen since World War II, as millions of civilians - many of them children - flee the wars and insurgencies in Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan. The Canadian children’s book author Margriet Ruurs has spoken to thousands of students at schools around the world about her book Stepping Stones, which follows a family fleeing a war in an unnamed country and features images by the Syrian artist Nizar Ali Badr, who uses small stones to create human figures.