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The 10 Funniest Books

By Adam Ehrlich Sachs | 05/27/2016 @ 05:00AM

Muriel Spark, Samuel Beckett, and more.
PW Picks: Books of the Week, May 30, 2016

| 05/27/2016 @ 05:00AM

This week: Russell Banks's travel writings, plus: the geek feminist revolution.
PW Picks: Books of the Week, May 23, 2016

| 05/20/2016 @ 05:00AM

This week: the latest from Nobel winner Svetlana Alexievich, plus the world's most coveted fish.
The Strangest Book of 2016 is 'The Anatomical Venus'

By Joanna Ebenstein | 05/20/2016 @ 05:00AM

What is the Anatomical Venus? Joanna Ebenstein gives us a tour of the confounding object.
Staff Pick: ‘Literary Publishing in the Twenty-First Century’ edited by Kurowski, Miller and Prufer

By Craig Teicher | 05/20/2016 @ 03:00AM

PW's digital director recommends an anthology of essays about the changing landscape of literary publishing.
Staff Pick: 'Siracusa' by Delia Ephron

Louisa Ermelino | 05/13/2016 @ 10:30AM

Reviews director Louisa Ermelino recommends 'Siracusa' by Delia Ephron, a novel following two married couples and on a vacation in Italy.
10 Unconventional Love Stories

By Laura Barnett | 05/13/2016 @ 05:00AM

Thomas Hardy, Curtis Sittenfeld, and more.
PW Picks: Books of the Week, May 16, 2016

| 05/13/2016 @ 05:00AM

This week: solving true crime puzzles, plus Siddhartha Mukherjee's history of the gene.
Staff Pick: 'You'll Grow Out of It' by Jessi Klein

Seth Satterlee | 05/06/2016 @ 10:45AM

Reviews editor Seth Satterlee recommends 'You'll Grow Out of It' by Jessi Klein, a memoir about the bizarre side of womanhood.
PW Picks: Books of the Week, May 9, 2016

| 05/06/2016 @ 05:00AM

This week: new books from Don DeLillo, Louise Erdrich, and Sherman Alexie.
10 Best Long Books

By Martin Seay | 05/06/2016 @ 05:00AM

George Eliot, Herman Melville, and more.
Staff Pick: 'Ghetto: The Invention of a Place, the History of an Idea' by Mitchell Duneier

By Alex Crowley | 04/29/2016 @ 10:35AM

Reviews editor Alex Crowley recommends 'Ghetto: The Invention of a Place, the History of an Idea' by Mitchell Duneiera, a history of how the study of what came to be known as “the ghetto” in large part created the phenomenon itself.
What is the Oulipo?

By Michèle Audin, translated by Christiana Hills | 04/29/2016 @ 05:00AM

Inside one of the world's most prestigious and selective literary societies.
PW Picks: Books of the Week, May 2, 2016

| 04/29/2016 @ 05:00AM

This week: Richard Russo's latest, plus a novel about romantic do-overs.
Staff Pick: 'The French Resistance' by Olivier Wieviorka

Everett Jones | 04/22/2016 @ 11:15AM

Reviews editor Everett Jones recommends 'The French Resistance' by Olivier Wieviorka, a synthesis of existing research into the Byzantine, mutating infrastructure of the Resistance.
Nine Great Unconventional True Crime Books

By Laura Tillman | 04/22/2016 @ 05:00AM

Nine books that boldly bend the genre in a different direction.
PW Picks: Books of the Week, April 25, 2016

| 04/22/2016 @ 05:00AM

This week: a murder mystery set in a remote town in Ghana, plus: are we smart enough to know how smart animals are?
PW Picks: Books of the Week, April 18, 2016

| 04/15/2016 @ 05:00AM

This week: Mark Twain's round-the-world comedy tour, plus a devilish Highsmithian thriller.
Staff Pick: ‘During’ by James Richardson

By Craig Morgan Teicher | 04/14/2016 @ 04:00PM

Director of digital operations Craig Teicher recommends 'During' by James Richardson, a collection of poems and aphorisms that remembers and reflects on everyday life with astonishing wit and wisdom.
Staff Pick: 'The Path' by Michael Puett and Christine Gross-Loh

By Seth Satterlee | 04/08/2016 @ 11:15AM

Reviews editor Seth Satterlee recommends "The Path" by Michael Puett and Christine Gross-Loh, a crash course in classic Chinese thinking about the good life that might in change the way you think in unpredictable ways.

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