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Fall 2013 Announcements: Travel - A Slow Boat to China...
...or anywhere else for that matter.
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Fall 2013 Announcements: Science Fiction, Fantasy, & Horror - Growth Spurts
Debut author Drew Karpyshyn kicks things off with Children of Fire, a fantasy epic that incorporates elements of horror and operatic drama.
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Fall 2013 Announcements: Politics - A Good Government Is Hard to Find
Fall’s political titles tackle government surveillance, American soldiers, political legacies, and hunting and being hunted.
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Fall 2013 Announcements: Mysteries & Thrillers - Female Kidnapping Victims
Kidnapping features in several impressive thrillers, led by French author Pierre Lemaitre’s Alex, his first novel to be translated into English and the first in his Commandant Camille Verhoeven trilogy.
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Fall 2013 Announcements: Sports - Stars and Controversy
Sports consciousness in America (and elsewhere) is a mix of hero worship, obsession about winning, nostalgia for the past, and disputation about the future. This season’s sports books represent that vividly.
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Fall 2013 Announcements: Social Sciences - Smorgasbord
Two sure-to-be-talked-about books on the urban experience are from polar opposite points of view.
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Fall 2013 Announcements: Romance & Erotica - Occupy Romance
Forget the tired old clichés of ripped bodices and brooding hunks.
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Fall 2013 Announcements: Poetry - Little Books, Big Stakes
This fall promises a fine harvest of new poetry, including many new collections from poets we’ve been waiting to hear from for years.
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Fall 2013 Announcements: Performing Arts - That’s Entertainment!
From the latest TV ratings, the timeliest theater reviews and last week’s movie box-office grosses, fans of all stripes can handily satisfy their cravings. As the following entries indicate, there’s no business like show business, indeed.
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Fall 2013 Announcements: Art - The Stories of Art
It’s the scholar’s task, claimed H.W. Janson, “to doubt what has been taken for granted.”
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Fall 2013 Announcements: Music - A Return to the Classic(al)
Last year, Paul Elie, in Reinventing Bach, placed the German composer in a 20th-century light.
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Fall 2013 Announcements: Memoir - We Are Family
When we remember, we look back, but memoirs, while commonly exercises in navel gazing, can also hand over a wide landscape as well as that small point of pain or epiphany or, hopefully, light.
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Fall 2013 Announcements: Literary Biographies, Essays & Criticism - The Boys Are Back in Town
Gender parity in review coverage, bylines, and awards is a constant topic of conversation in the literary community, fueled by sites like VIDA: Women in the Literary Arts, and controversies like PW’s recent kerfuffle with Claire Messud.
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Fall 2013 Announcements: Lifestyle - Sacred Cows and Other Tips
Where’s the envy button? Not only do French women not get fat, they also age well—presumably like French wine and cheese.
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Fall 2013 Announcements: History - Wartime All the Time
With the war in Afghanistan nearing its 12th year, some have begun to opine that being at war is the new norm.
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Fall 2013 Announcements: Fiction - Return to Bountiful
The rest of this year and the beginning of the next, readers will hear from an abundance of literary superstars—Atwood, Banks, Harrison, Gurganus among them.
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Fall 2013 Announcements: Cooking - Of Chefs and Restaurants
This season, New York City seems to be the It place for cookbooks spawned from restaurants. Specifically, Brooklyn.
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Fall 2013 Announcements: Comics - More Than Words
Biography, fantasy, SF, historical novel, superhero—whether factual or fictional, this season’s best comics and graphic novels follow no set trend except an eclectic approach to storytelling.
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Fall 2013 Announcements: Business - Superpower Stories
With the American economy slowly growing in 2013, many of the most intriguing business books for the fall focus on some of the country’s best-known companies rather than offering advice on how to jump-start the national economy, as many books in recent seasons have done since the start of the Great Recession.
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Fall 2013 Announcements: Fall Books - All Our Coverage
These are the notable books of fall 2013, picked by our editors across 20 categories, culled from over 14,000 titles from nearly 1,400 publishers.