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PW Picks: Books of the Week, July 6, 2015
This week, dirty Seinfeld fan fiction, a David Lynchian campus novel, and Kim Stanley Robinson's latest.
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10 Best Noir Novels
10 dark, hard-hitting novels.
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PW Picks: Books of the Week, June 29, 2015
This week, an attack by a walking corpse, and a coming-of-age novel set in Barbados.
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PW Picks: Books of the Week, June 22, 2015
This week: Milan Kundera's latest, Don Winslow's epic of the Mexican drug wars, and a Dickensian novel about Dickens.
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PW Picks: Books of the Week, June 15, 2015
This week: Mia Alvar's amazing debut story collection, finding a pirate ship, and Aziz Ansari on modern romance.
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What 50 Years of Writing Have Taught Me
Anne Roiphe, a major voice in feminist lit, reflects on her 50-year writing career as her 10th novel is published.
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10 Best Hollywood Novels
Didion, Waugh, Wodehouse, and more.
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PW Picks: Books of the Week, June 8, 2015
This week: a candidate for the Great American Internet Novel, a dead body in a chimney, and reimagining Custer's death.
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How the Modern Detective Novel Was Born
From Chesterton to Christie to Conan Doyle to Highsmith, tracing the modern detective novel back to its roots.
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PW Picks: Books of the Week, June 1, 2015
This week: Judy Blume's first novel for adults in 17 years, Stephen King's latest, and the absolutely incredible story of Stalin's daughter.
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The Best William Gaddis Novels
The five novels of the postmodern master ranked by biographer Joseph Tabbi.
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PW Picks: Books of the Week, May 25, 2015
This week: a brain surgeon's memoir, Robert McCammon's latest, and a page-turning mystery set in the Arctic.
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Never Get Good At What You Hate: Advice for Graduates
"I’d never stuck with anything that I was bad at. Writing is the first. Maybe because when I began, I didn’t care if I was good or bad. I just loved who I was when I was doing it."
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10 Best Dark Books
Picked by Amelia Gray.
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PW Picks: Books of the Week, May 18, 2015
This week: a book within a book, the end of the U.S. space program, and solitude in New York City.
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Why I Read the Most Controversial Books in Print Today
What you'll find on the dark side of literature.
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PW Picks: Books of the Week, May 11, 2015
This week, Sally Mann's amazing memoir, original sin, and the latest from Anne Enright.
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PW Picks: Books of the Week, May 4, 2015
This week: David McCullough on the Wright Brothers, Kate Atkinson's follow-up to "Life After Life," and the definitive biography of Saul Bellow.
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The 10 Best T. S. Eliot Poems
Prufrock, "The Waste Land," and more.
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PW Picks: Books of the Week, April 27, 2015
This week: Werner Herzog walks on ice, Oliver Sacks's new memoir, and the golden age of murder.