PW Picks: The Best New Books for the Week of May 21, 2012
Among our faves this week: new novels from Richard Ford, Bruce DeSilva, Kim Stanley Robinson, Alyson Noël, and Jeffrey B. Burton, plus an Austen-centric debut from Kim Izzo. more...
05/18/2012 @ 12:00AM
Get your first look at an exceptional new volume of contemporary Cuban art that PW called beautiful, stunning, and rare.
05/18/2012 @ 12:00AM
A guided tour of the most polluted places on Earth.
With Visit Sunny Chernobyl, journalist-filmmaker Andrew Blackwell tours the most polluted spots on earth -- and makes a pretty good case that you should, too.
05/18/2012 @ 12:00AM
The new Russian criminal state makes a disturbing first impression in a memoir from The Guardian's recently-deported Moscow correspondent.
05/18/2012 @ 12:00AM
Among our faves this week: new novels from Richard Ford, Bruce DeSilva, Kim Stanley Robinson, Alyson Noël, and Jeffrey B. Burton, plus an Austen-centric debut from Kim Izzo.
05/11/2012 @ 12:00AM
Taking a look back at 150 years of same-sex partnerships
Just as president Obama comes out in favor of gay marriage, a new book takes a close look at American same sex couples, from Walt Whitman to Greta Garbo to Jasper Johns.
05/11/2012 @ 12:00AM
An actress and a lyricist re-envision their city in photos and verse
In the handsome new coffee table book The Outdoor Museum, stage actress Margery Gray Harnick sets the scene while her husband, Pulitzer-winning lyricist Sheldon Harnick, provides poetic accompaniment.
05/11/2012 @ 12:00AM
Fiction from Craig Johnson, China Mieville, Timeri Murari, Peter Carey, Garth Nix, and Tania James; the first collection of Batman’s “New 52” incarnation; the follow-up to Sh*t My Dad Says, and more.
05/11/2012 @ 12:00AM
A&E is set to launch "Longmire" in June, based on the novels of Craig Johnson—the latest of which is about to hit stores. With this look at the first chapter, you can say you knew him back when.
05/04/2012 @ 12:00AM
Week of May 7, 2012
This week, novels from Toni Morrison and Cassandra Clare, urban histories from David Talbot and cartoonist Harvey Pekar, a thriller from Larry Bond, Augusten Burroughs solves your problems, and more.
05/04/2012 @ 12:00AM
The late cartooning curmudgeon "celebrates" his hometown.
For Harvey Pekar's Cleveland, Top Shelf and Zip Comics recruited artist Joseph Remnant, whose work recalls longtime Pekar collaborator R. Crumb, but with a lighter touch and a charm all its own.
Barbara Vey
For some reason I've been having a lot of nightmares lately. You know, the kind where when you wake up you don't know what's real and what's not....
Elizabeth Bluemle
Once in a while, I blog about book covers that drive me crazy because they are either overdone, mired in trend and cliché, or are impossible handsells. I figure it's time to celebrate some stando...
Rose Fox
Hotel shenanigans and plastic suburbia....
Adam Boretz
Our final piece in Publishers Weekly's Focus on Audio 2012 is a Q&A with comedian, actor, director, and writer Michael Showalter -- narrator of the audio edition of his memoir Mr. Funny Pants and...
Top Bestsellers
| Guilty Wives | Audio Fiction |
| Killing Lincoln (unabr.) | Audio Nonfiction |
| Serpent's Shadow | Children's Fiction |
| Duckling Gets a Cookie!? | Children's Picture Book |
| Hunger Games | Children's Series & Tie-ins |
| Blue Exorcist, Volume 3 | Graphic Novels |
| Deadlocked: A Sookie Stackhouse Novel | Hardcover Fiction |
| Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson | Hardcover Nonfiction |
| The Lucky One | Mass Market Paper |
| Fifty Shades of Grey: Book One of the Fifty Shades Trilogy | Trade Paper |
