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The 10 Best Movies That Were Never Made
From a Pink Floyd/Dali version of "Dune" to Kubrick's "Napoleon," these are the best movies you'll never see.
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PW Picks: Books of the Week, February 17, 2014
This week, a retelling of Sleeping Beauty, true crime that calls to mind "In Cold Blood," and a massive engineering mistake.
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The Most Anticipated Books of Spring 2014
The big books of the season.
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10 Dirty Romance Novels
Steamy romance novels for the more sinful side of Valentine's Day, picked by Victoria Dahl.
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PW Picks: Books of the Week, February 10, 2014
This week: cows and UFOs in Mexico, "Robinson Crusoe" in space, and the best movies you'll never see.
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PW Picks: Books of the Week, February 3, 2014
This week, the superb first novel in a sci-fi/horror trilogy, why certain groups in the U.S. perform better than others, and a story collection that reads like a cross between Mary Gaitskill and Grace Paley.
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PW Picks: Books of the Week, January 27, 2014
This week, the best fictional treatment of the Dreyfus Affair yet, a Burroughs bio, and a life in Middlemarch. Plus: why are you so sad?
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The 10 Worst Jobs in Books
Book characters with way worse jobs than yours. Unless you're a scrivener.
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The 10 Best Contemporary War Novels
A surprise number one pick.
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PW Picks: Books of the Week, January 20, 2014
This week, the Rapture, an alien probe at the bottom of Lake Michigan, and Hitchcockian suspense at a museum.
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PW Picks: Books of the Week, January 13, 2014
This week, the true story that inspired Herman Melville, a pizza hotline, and a soldier's exorcism. Plus: a new translation of "The Human Comedy."
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The 9 Best Books That Don't Exist
The world would certainly be a better place if they did exist (except #4 and probably #1).
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PW Picks: Books of the Week, January 6, 2014
This week, 2014 gets a strong start with Chang-Rae Lee, Laurie Halse Anderson, and Gary Shteyngart. Plus: a book on a life spent reading.
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The Crossword Puzzle Turns 100
Do the world's first ever crossword puzzle!
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5 Things You Didn't Know About Milk
The strange, the technological, and the cultural history of milk.
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PW Picks: Books of the Week, December 9, 2013
This week, new Dean Koontz, the particle that holds the secrets of the universe, and a mystery with a truly unnerving ending.
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5 Reasons Why Plato and Aristotle Still Matter Today
Are you an Aristotelian or a Platonist? The answer says more than you think.
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PW Picks: Books of the Week, December 2, 2013
This week, a must-have anthology of one of literature's great characters, new Michael Connelly, and a doomed Arctic expedition. Plus: a man who's life goal is to bite his own elbow.
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PW Picks: Books of the Week, November 25, 2013
This week, Tolstoy, a supernatural treasure hunt, and a book that sold two million copies in South Korea.
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5 Writing Tips: Paul Harding
Pay attention: Pulitzer winners don't share their secrets every day.