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The Most Anticipated Children’s and YA Books of Fall 2017
A selection of eagerly awaited children's and YA books for the coming season.
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7 Reasons Why Henry David Thoreau Still Matters Today
Laura Dassow Walls, author of the definitive biography 'Henry David Thoreau: A Life,' on why Thoreau still matters today.
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PW Picks: Books of the Week, July 24, 2017
This week: a utopian society gone wrong, plus the brilliant short stories of Fleur Jaeggy.
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PW Picks: Books of the Week, July 17, 2017
This week: what if there were a machine that could reveal your deepest secret? Plus: a definitive Thoreau biography.
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10 Writing Rules You Can (and Should) Break
Max Winter, author of the novel "Exes," shares 10 old and tired writing "rules" and why you should break them.
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PW Picks: Books of the Week, July 10, 2017
This week: an oral history of Bob Marley, plus an existential mystery in which a couple's neighbors strangely stop speaking to them.
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10 Books That Puzzle the Reader
N.J. Campbell, author of the mind-bending new novel, 'Found Audio,' picks 10 delightfully puzzling books.
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PW Picks: Books of the Week, July 3, 2017
This week: a thriller featuring a creepy DVD, plus an excellent essay collection about the beauty of everyday mundanities.
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10 Book Characters We Love to Hate
Including Polonius, Victor Frankenstein, and more.
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PW Picks: Books of the Week, June 26, 2017
This week: the true story of the year-long quest to catch a Greenland shark, which can live up to 400 years.
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Staff Pick: 'Fear City' by Kim Phillips-Fein
Reviews editor Alex Crowley recommends 'Fear City' by Kim Phillips-Fein, which explores the destructive rise of Neoliberalism in the wake of 1960s social upheaval and global economic shocks of the early 1970s.
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PW Picks: Books of the Week, June 19, 2017
This week: Don Winslow's latest novel, plus what happens between life and death.
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The 10 Best John Ashbery Poems
Picked by Karin Roffman, author of 'The Songs We Know Best: John Ashbery's Early Life.'
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Staff Pick: 'Rampage' by Justin Scott
A thriller first published in 1986 and set in the world of New York real estate development reads as fresh now as when it came out. And not just because Trump gets a mention.
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PW Picks: Books of the Week, June 12, 2017
This week: new books from Roxane Gay, Teju Cole, and more.
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10 Things You Probably Didn't Know About F. Scott Fitzgerald
Including: his last royalty check was for $13.13.
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5 Writing Tips: Jeff VanderMeer
"But at some point, no matter how good your partial or rough draft is, you may also have to methodically test your novel—in all ways, from the structure down to the paragraph level."
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PW Picks: Books of the Week, June 5, 2017
This week: Anthony Horowitz's brilliant Agatha Christie–like mystery, plus an investigation into the Donner Party.
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Staff Pick: 'The Others' by Matthew Rohrer
Associate editor John Maher tells a ghost story and recommends Matthew Rohrer's otherworldly Russian nesting doll of a novel in verse, 'The Others.'
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PW Picks: Books of the Week, May 29, 2017
This week: David Sedaris's diaries, plus the complete Jack Reacher stories.