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PW Picks: The Best New Books for the Week of July 29, 2013
This week, the world's most elusive and delicious cheese, an autistic savant on mathematics and life, and Jason's newest graphic novel. Plus: taking a lit course taught by Borges.
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The 10 Best Italo Calvino Books
The best of the best from the fantasy, science fiction, and fable writer.
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PW Picks: The Best New Books for the Week of July 22, 2013
This week, how modern crime became modern, David Gilbert's stellar & Sons, and Ben Stroud's stellar Byzantium. Plus: Mr. Darcy's guide to courtship.
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The 10 Best Underdogs in Books
Frodo, Ron Weasley, and Kilgore Trout. Who else makes the list?
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The 10 Best Modernist Books (in English)
The easy way in to some great, challenging books.
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PW Picks: The Best New Books for the Week of July 15, 2013
This week: an author who can do seemingly anything with words, a Florida to Alaska road trip, and David Rakoff's novel in verse. Plus, a $50,000 coat.
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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.