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PW Picks: Books of the Week, September 9, 2019
This week: a 750-page Man Booker finalist, plus Stephen King's latest.
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PW Picks: Books of the Week, September 2, 2019
Salman Rushdie's reimagining of "Don Quixote," plus the story of the woman who defied the Nazis in the world’s most dangerous horse race.
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How the Absurdity of the Five-Paragraph Essay Inspired Rion Amilcar Scott's Novella
The novella, "Special Topics in Loneliness Studies," is about a professor whose doomed class investigates loneliness through the syllabus.
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PW Picks: Books of the Week, August 26, 2019
This week: new books from Edwidge Danticat, Louise Penny, and more.
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Kimberly King Parsons on the Most Difficult Story She Ever Wrote
Kimberly King Parsons outlines the challenges of composing a story from her collection, "Foxes," that took her 12 years to complete.
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PW Picks: Books of the Week, August 19, 2019
This week: Rachel Cusk's arresting first essay collection, plus a superb police procedural with supernatural overtones.
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PW Picks: Books of the Week, August 12, 2019
This week: a luscious, unsettling Louisiana horror novel, plus, an island that is in the process of disappearing, item by item.
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PW Picks: Books of the Week, August 5, 2019
This week: new books from Ruth Ware, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, and more.
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The Most Anticipated Children's and YA Books of Fall 2019
See our editors' selection of eagerly awaited children's and YA books for the coming season.
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The Most Anticipated Books of Fall 2019
The big books of the season.
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PW Picks: Books of the Week, July 29, 2019
This week: Holmes and Watson reimagined as gay African-American women living in a near-future U.S.; plus an outstanding mystery set in Rome in 89 C.E.
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The Best Book You've Never Read is 'Pieces for the Left Hand' by J. Robert Lennon
"Retelling these stories—which are not much longer in the summary than in the original—I feel the same charge I experience when some strange little thing happens to me, a coincidence or mix-up, that I’m eager to share with someone."
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PW Picks: Books of the Week, July 22, 2019
This week: the latest from Laura Lippman, plus understanding the new rules of language.
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9 Things You Didn’t Know About the Semicolon
Court cases, rule-breaking, and more, picked by Cecelia Watson, author of 'Semicolon: The Past, Present, and Future of a Misunderstood Mark.'
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PW Picks: Books of the Week, July 15, 2019
This week: Colson Whitehead's new novel, plus George Takei's new graphic memoir.
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PW Picks: Books of the Week, July 8, 2019
This week: a swampy urban legend, plus Silicon Valley and the remaking of America.
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PW Picks: Books of the Week, July 1, 2019
This week: cutthroat parents jockey to place their children in a new gifted magnet school, plus a new collection from Charles Simic.
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PW Picks: Books of the Week, June 24, 2019
This week: a journey through the heart of America's fast-food kingdom, plus Charles Manson, the CIA, and the secret history of the '60s.
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10 Essential Books About Contemporary Artists
A biography of Basquiat, Patti Smith's 'Just Kids,' and more.
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PW Picks: Books of the Week, June 17, 2019
This week: new books from Darcey Steinke, Catherine Chung, and more.