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PW Picks: The Best New Books for the Week of November 12, 2012
This week, a go-for-the-jugular noir, the new Alice Munro book, and the dark underside of the Elizabethan golden age.
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PW Picks: The Best New Books for the Week of November 5, 2012
This week: books from Oliver Sacks, Barbara Kingsolver, and Virginia Woolf. Plus: an outstanding graphic memoir on bipolar disorder.
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The State of the Short Story
Lorin Stein, editor of The Paris Review, tells us that if you think short stories are dead, you aren't paying close enough attention.
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PW Picks: The Best New Books for the Week of October 29, 2012
This week: the sequel to The Wind in the Willows, a must read essay collection from James Wood, and the definitive Springsteen biography. Plus, another masterful WWII book from Alex Kershaw.
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The 13 Worst Reviews of Classic Books
Ralph Waldo Emerson was once called "a hoary-headed and toothless baboon" by Thomas Carlyle. Here are 13 other scathing reviews of classic writers and their books.
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Why 'Frankenstein' Is the Greatest Horror Novel Ever
The greatest horror novel was written 200 years ago by a 19-year-old. Susan J. Wolfson and Ronald Levao, the team behind the notes in the spectacular new The Annotated Frankenstein, tell us why.
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The Medical Problems of 4 Great Writers
The troubled health histories of the Brontës, Joyce, Orwell, and Yeats.
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PW Picks: The Best New Books for the Week of October 22, 2012
This week: the new Lemony Snicket book, a police procedural with a mind-bending resolution, and a 1,000-page gargantuan masterwork that's worth every penny of its $75 price tag.
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Schrodinger's Cat, Time Travel and Other Great Paradoxes
A new book by a quantum physicist makes sense of the seemingly senseless.
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The Most Dysfunctional Families in Literature
Novelist Jami Attenberg picks the best of the messiest families in literature.
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The Story Behind the Most Controversial Dictionary Ever
David Skinner's The Story of Ain't tells the story of Webster's Third, the most controversial dictionary ever assembled. Here, Skinner tells us the story of the dictionary that was referred to as "literary anarchy."
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The Top 10 Essays Since 1950
Didion, Wallace, Sontag, Mailer. Who else made the cut?
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Handicapping the 2012 National Book Awards
PW's editors pick their favorites for this year's awards.
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PW Picks: The Best New Books for the Week of October 15, 2012
This week: the ailments of famous writers, a novel about how novels are dead, and the latest from Mark Z. Danielewski. Plus: a stellar graphic novel about the lost years of a melancholic young Abraham Lincoln.
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The Most Underrated Book of 2012: 'We Learn Nothing'
There are a few things that make We Learn Nothing an exceptional book, but let's start with this: the average human being can identify with every single one of its essays.
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4 Crazy Book Research Tactics
To what lengths would Jeri Westerson, author of Blood Lance: A Medieval Noir, go to research her medieval mystery series? Well, as it turns out, pretty far.
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How 'A Wrinkle in Time' Was Made Into a Graphic Novel
Madeline L'Engle's A Wrinkle in Time is one of the most beloved children's books out there. The editor and illustrator of A Wrinkle in Time: The Graphic Novel, Margaret Ferguson and Hope Larson, shared their thoughts on adapting the classic and its enduring message.
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5 Writing Tips from Mary Sharratt
Mary Sharratt's Illuminations is an imaginative retelling of the fascinating life of the 12th-century nun Hildegard von Bingen. The author of five historical novels, Sharratt shares her secrets for succeeding at writing historical fiction.
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PW Picks: The Best New Books for the Week of October 8, 2012
This week, Vonnegut's first and last books, the best American essays of 2012, and the novel that's going to put Rochester on the map. Plus: a striking, strange book about wooden floors.
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The Best Book Day of 2012
October 2 has at least 32 books you should be excited about. Yes, we said 32.
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