International Adoption, Child-Trafficking, and China’s One Child Policy: PW Talks with Barbara Demick
In Daughters of the Bamboo Grove (Random House, May), the journalist profiles twins separated as toddlers by China’s one child policy and America’s demand for international adoptees. more...
Dennis McNally Is Still Dreaming After All These Years
In his latest book, the historian and former Grateful Dead publicist looks back on the origins of the 1960s counterculture and explains how the hippies changed America. more...
It’s All Greek to Stephen Fry
The author and entertainer returns with a conversational retelling of ‘The Odyssey’ that keys into the tale’s timeless appeal. more...
Unparenting the American Dream: PW Talks with Marina Lopes
In Please Yell at My Kids, Brazilian American journalist Marina Lopes encourages American parents to rethink rugged individualism and offers internationally tested advice on building the proverbial village. more...and more. Sign up here!
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InterviewsBetween the Covers at 50: PW Talks with Jennifer Ball
Half a century in, the Telluride, Colo., independent bookstore remains a local staple. Co-owner Jennifer Ball explains why.
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Interviews
Lean on Me: PW Talks with Marie Rutkoski
While trapped in an abusive marriage, a woman reunites with her first love in the YA bestseller’s first adult romance, ‘Ordinary Love’ (Knopf, June).
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Interviews
Correcting a Caricature: PW Talks with A’Lelia Bundles
The biographer’s ‘Joy Goddess’ (Scribner, June) explores the life and times of her great-grandmother A’Lelia Walker, the daughter of Madam C.J. Walker and heiress to the Walker hair care fortune.
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Profiles
André Aciman: Hopeless Romantic
In three collected novellas, the celebrated author explores some favorite subjects: love, loss, and the heart’s secret desires.
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Profiles
Melissa Febos’s Dry Season
In her latest memoir, the bestselling author explores how a year of celibacy changed her life and, against all odds, helped her find true love.
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Interviews
Be Yourself, Joyously: PW Talks with Tourmaline
The author of two forthcoming books on LGBTQ+ icon Marsha P. Johnson—Marsha, for adults, and One Day in June, for children—discusses bringing her revolutionary subject to life.
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Interviews
It’s All In Your Head: PW Talks with Pria Anand
In ‘The Mind Electric’ (Washington Square, June), the neurologist explores the roots of neurological disease and the narratives that shape medicine.
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Interviews
Tomorrow Is a New Day: PW Talks with Molly Jong-Fast
In ‘How to Lose Your Mother’ (Viking, June), the journalist recalls caring for her mother, novelist Erica Jong, as she succumbed to dementia.
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Interviews
Culinary Chops: PW Talks with Raquel Pelzel
At the Little, Brown cookbook imprint Voracious Books, the former Clarkson Potter editorial director and Tasting Table recipe developer hungers for global fare.
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BookLife
An Indie Publishing Project Makes Waves
A peek behind the making of ‘The Book.’
