Last Week’s Top Reviews
The top reviews on publishersweekly.com last week were...
Body of Water: A Sage, a Seeker, and the World’s Most Alluring Fish
13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl
Michael Symon’s Playing with Fire
From the Newsletters
The 10 most anticipated book-to-film adaptations of 2018.
Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle, a sequel to the 1995 picture book adaptation Jumanji, is a surprise box-office champ.
Podcasts
PW senior writer Andrew Albanese discusses why publishers should get involved in the battle now underway to restore net neutrality protections repealed by the FCC last month.
Calvin Reid visits the Black Comic Book Festival in Harlem to interview Eisner Award–winning scholar Dr. Sheena C. Howard, author of The Encyclopedia of Black Comics, about that pioneering reference work and about co-writing Superb, a new series featuring a teenage superhero with Down syndrome.
Blogs
A bookseller gains a new perspective as a parent volunteer at her son’s school.
Nate Staniforth discusses his book, Here Is Real Magic: A Magician’s Search for Wonder in the Modern World. PW editorial director Jim Milliot looks at 2017’s bestselling books.