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10 Books Based on Other Books
Flaubert, Coetzee, Joyce. Who else took inspiration from earlier books to write their own?
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PW Picks: The Best New Books for the Week of July 8, 2013
This week: postmodernism depuzzled, Freud's mistress, and adventures with a bald cheerleader. Plus: Stephanie Evanovich's debut.
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10 Travel Tips To Keep You From Going Insane at the Airport
Including: don't worry about safety.
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PW Picks: The Best New Books for the Week of July 1, 2013
This week: a bizarre American history story, a must-read graphic novel, and a mouse with a tail shaped like a question mark. Plus: two perfect thrillers for summer.
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10 Children's Books That Never Get Old
Author Curtis Sittenfeld picks the books that she never tires of reading with her kids.
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The Obsessives Who Shaped America
Steve Jobs, Charles Lindbergh, among others, have changed the United States while sweating the small stuff.
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PW Picks: The Best New Books for the Week of June 24, 2013
This week, the worst book ever to take on an airplane, "the skirt amongst men," and why obsessive-compulsives helped build the United States. Plus: Curtis Sittenfeld's latest.
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The Most Beautiful Book of 2013 is 'The Graphic Canon, Volume 3'
If The Graphic Canon, Volume 3 doesn't get you excited, you don't love books.
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The 10 Worst Dads in Books
Humbert Humbert and Titus Andronicus--who else shares a spot on the notorious list?
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PW Picks: The Best New Books for the Week of June 17, 2013
This week, a dark and odd fable, a must-read short story collection, and a YA throwback to the likes of Logan's Run. Plus: Neil Gaiman's latest.
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The Dog That Saved a Nurse's Life
The story of a retired nurse and a little Maltese-poodle mix, rescued from a shelter.
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PW Picks: The Best New Books for the Week of June 10, 2013
This week, creating the solar system from scratch, murder and mayhem in the South, and a death row thriller. Plus: Rebecca Solnit's elegant, meandering essays.
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Why Does Language Always Change?
"Gangnam Style," when Bollywood movies switch to English, and the meaning of "mamihlapinatapei"--what do these things tell us about language?
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PW Picks: The Best New Books for the Week of June 3, 2013
This week: time-traveling serial killers, a nautical Chariots of Fire, and dogs who save lives. Plus: Stephen King's latest.
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The Night Sartre Became Famous
Despite police, heat, and fainting spells, Jean-Paul Sartre delivered a lecture on October 29, 1945 that changed the rest of his life.
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PW Picks: The Best New Books for the Week of May 27, 2013
This week, Richard Scarry for grown-ups, the tireless work of translators, and the final novel from a Nobel laureate. Plus: talking with the last survivors of WWI.
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The World's Most Famous Literary Pub...Almost
How Shakespeare, Chaucer, and Dickens (almost) made the George Inn the planet's most famous literary drinking hole.
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PW Picks: The Best New Books for the Week of May 20, 2013
This week, waking up in an asylum, the randy side of WWII, and an electrifying, true plane crash story. Plus: Khaled Hosseini's latest.
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How the World's Most Difficult Code Was Cracked
Meet Linear B. Think you can solve it?
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The 10 Worst Mothers in Books
In honor of Mother's Day, Jennifer Gilmore picks the worst mothers you'll find in literature.