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PW Picks: The Best New Books for the Week of April 29, 2013
This week, Frank Bidart's latest, Eve Ensler gets personal, and the biological roots of crime. Plus: a memoir by Edna O'Brien.
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Books I Love: Edith Grossman
One of the world's most renowned translators shares her favorite books.
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PW Picks: The Best New Books for the Week of April 22, 2013
This week, Michael Pollan's latest, Mo Willems's latest, and a white-knuckle WWII true story. Plus: why time is "the heart of nature."
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10 Things You Probably Didn't Know About Willa Cather
The Selected Letters of Willa Cather, despite the author's wish for her correspondence to remain unpublished, finally sees the light of day this month. The editors of the book, Andrew Jewell and Janis Stout, take us inside the private life of a great American writer.
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PW Picks: The Best New Books for the Week of April 15, 2013
This week, a mischievous book about a crumbling mansion, 100 years done in 100 pages, and the truth about dinosaurs. Plus: the best book about Rhode Island...ever?
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The American Cult: A History
Peggy Riley's debut novel Amity & Sorrow is a fierce but compassionate look at nature vs. nurture through the lens of a polygamous cult. Riley, who took inspiration from a photograph of a burning wooden church, walks us through the history of the American cult.
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The 10 Best Book Endings
Hemingway, Woolf, Márquez. What other authors gave us unforgettable endings?
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PW Picks: The Best New Books for the Week of April 8, 2013
This week: Lovecraft gets graphic, the rise of the American novel, and what nonhuman species reveal about being human. Plus, getting held hostage in a small town.
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The 10 Best Small Towns in Books
Mount Judge, Pennsylvania. Oberlin, Ohio. Splendora, Texas. What other small towns were put on the map because of books?
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PW Picks: The Best New Books for the Week of April 1, 2013
This week, Lemony Snicket and Jon Klassen join forces, loneliness in the digital age, and the deadliest jellied gasoline ever. Plus: James Salter's first novel in over 30 years.
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10 Hidden Places Around the World
Moses Gates's Hidden Cities: A Memoir of Urban Exploration is a wildly entertaining journey beyond barriers to find the off-the-radar places in locales around the world. Gates has some hidden places for you to explore on your next trip.
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How I Accidentally Wrote a Bestseller
Nick Turse’s Kill Anything That Moves, now in its sixth printing, is an eye-opening look at the U.S.'s “search-and-destroy” tactic employed in Vietnam, but it began 12 years ago with Turse, a PhD student, toiling away in the National Archives. It was there that he found documents (which have since been pulled from the public shelves) that became the inspiration for his book.
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PW Picks: The Best New Books for the Week of March 25, 2013
This week, a Catcher in the Rye for Internet youth, the new Zelda Fitzgerald novel, and a must-have Charles Simic collection. Plus: something is below the ice in Antarctica.
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10 Imaginary Countries in Books
Nabokov, Bellow, Kafka, and 7 other authors who created places so good they seem real.
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PW Picks: The Best New Books for the Week of March 18, 2013
This week, what we don't know about memory, rethinking caveman nostalgia, and hidden cities. Plus: Aleksandar Hemon's fist book of nonfiction.
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5 Writing Tips from Blake Bailey
Blake Bailey is an award-winning literary biographer, penning books on Richard Yates, John Cheever and, in the future, Philip Roth. His newest book is Farther & Wilder: The Lost Weekends and Literary Dreams of Charles Jackson and it's just as compelling as his others. Pay attention, because when an award winner has advice, we should all listen.
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What Was It Like to Be an Executioner?
A job executing people in the 16th century wasn't nearly as glamorous as you might think. Joel F. Harrington, author of The Faithful Executioner gives us the gory details.
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PW Picks: The Best New Books for the Week of March 11, 2013
This week, William H. Gass's first novel in nearly 20 years, cyborg cockroaches, and a roof that changes shape. Plus: one of the most memorable FBI agents since Clarice Starling.
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10 Food Secrets You Need to Know
Sneaky cheese, how salt is shaped, and what exactly "bliss point" means. Michael Moss, author of Salt Sugar Fat, tells you 10 things you need to know about how the food giants are hooking us.
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Weird America: Ben Katchor's Look at the Side of Life You Never See
Ben Katchor's brilliant new book, Hand-Drying in America and Other Stories, focuses on light switches, roofs, fast-food packaging, trash cans, coffee cups, and dozens more things in life we never really pay attention to.
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