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Spring 2021 Announcements: Cooking & Food
Latin America has strong representation this season along with offerings from an award-winning pitmaster, a blogger, and the mother of a celebrity fan-favorite.
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Spring 2021 Announcements: Comics & Graphic Novels
The big news: Alison Bechdel is back—her much-anticipated return is accompanied by buzzy spring comics including diverse debuts, politically charged nonfiction, and one from a Nobel laureate.
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Spring 2021 Announcements: Business & Economics
Business publishers are trying to help readers adapt to the mass migration to remote work and an increased emphasis on diversity issues.
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Spring 2021 Announcements: Art, Architecture & Photography
Fashion, post-Instagram photography, outdoor living, and nontraditional arts and artists are among this season’s preoccupations.
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Spring 2021 Announcements: SF, Fantasy & Horror
History and folklore animate this spring’s fantasies, while socially conscious sci-fi and dystopian fiction reflect the present moment.
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Spring 2021 Announcements: Science
Unsurprisingly, climate change is a big topic this season. Authors also consider hormones, the human brain, and the beginning of the universe.
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Spring 2021 Announcements: Romance & Erotica
Spring’s romances promise far-flung getaways, daring historical adventures, and glimpses into the private lives of celebrities.
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Spring 2021 Announcements: Politics & Current Affairs
Spring sees new voices and old hands tackling America’s social ills, first draft histories of the Covid-19 pandemic and 2020 presidential campaign, food industry exposés, political manifestos, and dispatches from China’s internment camps.
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Spring 2021 Announcements: Poetry
Ruminative and searching, brash and brave, these collections ask and recast questions of identity while exploring the richness of contemporary life.
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Spring 2021 Announcements: Mysteries & Thrillers
Golden Age Hollywood is the focus of James Ellroy’s latest and Ava Barry’s debut, but there’s plenty of trouble abroad as well, shown in new novels from Victor del Árbol and Eva Garcia Sáenz.
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Spring 2021 Announcements: Lifestyle
This season, trends of minimalist and sustainable living accelerate, and many publishers offer mindfulness and slowing down as strategies for dealing with mental and physical health issues magnified by the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Your Money and Your Life: Business & Personal Finance Books 2020–20201
Personal finance writers take a sober look at how readers can protect their families’ financial security in crisis times.
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Working Moms—and Dads: Business & Personal Finance Books 2020–20201
A new series from Harvard Business Review Press fills an urgent need for working parents.
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Work, Interrupted: Business & Personal Finance Books 2020–2021
New books suggest that the large-scale shift to remote work is only the beginning of a much-needed overhaul of American office life.
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Call and Response: Social Justice Books 2020-2021
'PW' spoke with publishers about meeting the demand for books addressing social justice issues.
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New and Forthcoming Social Justice Titles
The following is a list of books focused on anti-racism, inclusivity, and related matters of racial, social, and criminal justice.
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Unjust Deserts: True Crime 2020-2021
New books examine who benefits and who suffers in a flawed justice system.
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Faithful Sidekicks: Mysteries & Thrillers 2020–2021
MX Publishing supports Arthur Conan Doyle’s onetime home through new Sherlock Holmes stories.
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Maternal Instinct: Mysteries & Thrillers 2020–2021
The protagonists of several forthcoming books go to extreme lengths to protect their children.
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Good Spirits: Mysteries & Thrillers 2020–2021
Paranormal cozies show how a touch of the supernatural can take an otherwise traditional story in surprising directions.