From the Newsletters
Nine essential books by Arab writers, picked by PW reviews director and author of Malafemmena (Sarabande), Louisa Ermelino.
Remembering Dick Bruna, the prolific children’s illustrator and creator of Miffy, who died last week, at age 89.
New books from Buddhist publishers take on social justice.
Among the books picking up multiple rights sales abroad is an exposé on life at the Vatican.
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The most-read review on publishersweekly.com last week was A Void by Georges Perec, trans. from the French by Gilbert Adair (Harvill).
Podcasts
PW senior writer Andrew Albanese talks about Simon & Schuster’s decision to cancel Milo Yiannopoulos’s book deal.
The More to Come crew discuss Karen Berger’s new imprint at Dark Horse and the ComicsPro annual retailers meeting, plus a report on two California comics conventions.
Brad Stone discusses his new book, The Upstarts: How Uber, Airbnb, and the Killer Companies of the New Silicon Valley Are Changing the World (Little, Brown).
Blogs
A bookseller offers her support for #ownvoices as a way to find out about new works of children’s literature written by authors of color.
