All Book Reviews

• Fiction Book Reviews: 3/8/2010

  March 8, 2010
  Reviewed this week, new novels from Michael Gruber, Jill Kargman, Vendela Vida, Roopa Farooki, Susan Isaacs, and Nancy Pickard. Plus, Katie Arnoldi does druggy surf-noir, Laurie R. King trots out Sherlock Holmes, Oscar Hijuelos revisits the Mambo Kings enchantress, Bernice McFadden travels from the Jim Crow South to the Harlem Renaissance, and more.  More

• Children's Book Reviews: 3/8/2010

  March 8, 2010
  This week's children's book reviews include new picture books from Laura Vaccaro Seeger, Brenda Z. Guiberson and Ed Young, and Elise Broach and Richard Egielski; fiction from Michelle Harrison, Uri Orlev, Kathryn Erskine, and D.J. MacHale; nonfiction about public spaces and growing up in Mali; and a round-up of alphabet and number books.  More

• Nonfiction Book Reviews: 3/8/2010

  March 8, 2010
  Stars this week include C.K. Williams's On Whitman, Claude S. Fischer's Made in America, Michael Kammen's Digging Up the Dead, Wes Moore's The Other Wes Moore, and Nathan Foster's Wisdom Chaser. Plus Anna Fields on Southern living, Piper Kerman on women's prison, Emily Gould on Gawker, Dave Isay on mom, religion reviews, and more.  More

• PW Review of the Week: The Wisdom of Bees by Michael O'Malley

  March 8, 2010
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• PW Talks with Kira Henehan

  by Paul Boyer, March 8, 2010
  In Kira Henehan's debut, Orion, You Came and You Took All My Marbles, a group of detectives may or may not be detectives, and what they may or may not be after is a mystery.  More

• Fiction Book Reviews: 3/1/2010

  March 1, 2010
  This week: new work from Rick Moody, Mary Balogh, Ryu Murakami, Martin Amis, Lee Child, Debbie Macomber, Elizabeth George, Leah Stewart, Roberto Bolaño, Mickey Spillane and Max Allan Collins, Brian Lumley, Paula Quinn, Daniel Clowes, and more.  More

• Children's Book Reviews: 3/1/2010

  March 1, 2010
  In this week's children's book reviews from Publishers Weekly: picture books from Rukhsana Khan, Sophie Blackall, and Barroux; fiction from Susan Beth Pfeffer, John Green, and David Levithan; children's comics from Doug TenNapel and James Kochalka; and a rounnd-up of environmentally-minded kids' books for Earth Day.  More

• Nonfiction Book Reviews: 3/1/2010

  March 1, 2010
  Stars for Charles Wohlforth, Emma Larkin, Manjit Kumar, Graham Robb, Alex Butterworth, and James Villas. Plus Peter Miller on swarms, Stephen P. Kiernan on patriotism, Nancy Trejos on personal finance, Angus Trumble on the finger, Roy Morris Jr. on Mark Twain, Sarah Marx Feldner on Japanese home cooking, James Caplan on the autistic spectrum, and more.  More

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