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When You Eliminate the Impossible...PW Talks with Paul Halter
In The Crimson Fog, French master of the impossible crime novel Paul Halter offers his take on the Jack the Ripper mystery.
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Answers to All Our Questions: PW Talks with Sarah Cornwell
Sarah Cornwell’s debut novel What I Had Before I Had You follows several generations of a family with a history of bipolar disorder.
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Message in a Bottle: PW Talks with Olivia Laing
In The Trip to Echo Spring: On Writers and Drinking, Olivia Laing studies six great writers—Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tennessee Williams, John Cheever, John Berryman, and Raymond Carver—and their fraught relationship with alcohol.
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Alligators Don’t Dance in Zoos: PW Talks with Vladimir Dinets
Dragon Songs: Love and Adventure Among Crocodiles, Alligators, and Other Dinosaur Relations, by zoologist, writer, and explorer Dinets, offers a riveting, global view of crocodilians in the wild.
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The Multilateralist: PW Talks with David Bosco
In Rough Justice: The International Criminal Court in a World of Power Politics, Bosco, assistant professor of international politics and law at American University, analyzes the clash of realism and idealism within the new institution.
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The Return of Wooster and Jeeves: PW Talks with Sebastian Faulks
In Jeeves and the Wedding Bells, Sebastian Faulks pulls off the daunting challenge of recreating P.G. Wodehouse’s beloved characters—the certifiable goof Bertie Wooster and his omniscient valet Jeeves—and plunges them into another brilliantly-farcical story.
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The Nature of Evil: PW Talks with Jack El-Hai
Jack El-Hai’s chilling new book The Nazi and the Psychiatrist (Sept., PublicAffairs) tells the story of the ambitious army psychiatrist Captain Douglas M. Kelley whose examination of high-ranking Nazis as they awaited trail in Nuremberg led him into a dangerously close relationship with Hermann Goring.
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Murder They Wrote: PW Talks with Marcia Muller and Bill Pronzini
Husband-and-wife MWA grand masters Bill Pronzini and Marcia Muller deliver their second mystery featuring a male/female investigative team in 1890s San Francisco, The Spook Lights Affair.
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Strange Silence: PW Talks with Jesse Ball
The mysterious silence of an accused murder suspect in 1970s Japan is at the center of Silence Once Begun.
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Getting Personal: PW Talks with Rebecca Mead
In My Life in Middlemarch—a hybrid work of literary criticism, biography, and memoir—New Yorker staff writer Rebecca Mead returns to being a reader.
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Q & A with Chip Kidd
Superstar book jacket designer Chip Kidd's new book, Go, is a graphic design handbook for kids.
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Video: Scott Turow on 'Identical'
Scott Turow talks about his new novel, 'Identical', and much more in this video interview.
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NFL Diaries: PW Talks with Nate Jackson
Nate Jackson’s new book, Slow Getting Up (Sept., Harper), explores everyday life as a player in the National Football League.
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War & Murder: PW Talks with Armand Cabasson
The start of Napoleon’s Russian campaign is the setting for a serial killer hunt in Armand Cabasson’s award-winning The Officer’s Prey, the first in a series featuring French captain Quentin Margont as a detective trying to solve crimes amidst the fog of war.
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Illusory Reality: PW Talks with Leena Krohn
In Datura, or A Delusion We All See, Finnish author Leena Krohn (Tainaron: Mail from Another City) describes the experiences of a woman struggling to draw distinctions between reality, belief, and hallucination.
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Through the Looking Glass: PW Talks with Lene Kaaberbøl and Agnete Friis
In Death of a Nightingale, their third thriller starring Red Cross nurse Nina Borg, Danes Lene Kaaberbøl and Agnete Friis intertwine the contemporary story of a Ukrainian asylum seeker—and murder suspect—on the lam in Copenhagen with that of two young sisters starving in Stalinist Russia.
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Denying the Obvious: PW Talks with Jean Hanff Korelitz
Native New Yorker Jean Hanff Korelitz—whose fourth novel, Admission, was recently adapted into film—returns with You Should Have Known, a literary mystery.
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Bonds of Society: PW Talks with Greg Grandin
In Empire of Necessity: Slavery, Freedom, and Deception in the New World, historian Grandin recounts a bizarre slave ship uprising previously fictionalized in Herman Melville’s Benito Cereno.
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Q & A with Elisha Cooper and Brian Floca
When we discovered that veteran author-illustrators Elisha Cooper and Brian Floca both had fall picture books about trains, we knew we had to find out why trains, why now, and what they thought of each other's work.
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