PW Picks: The Best New Books for the Week of May 28, 2012
This week: teaching Jane Austen in Latin America, a bloody love story, and a first-rate espionage thriller. Plus: Civil War master Jeff Shaara returns to what he does best. more...
05/25/2012 @ 12:00AM
Confederate cavalry lieutenant James Seeley defends a depot in the tense opening chapter of Jeff Shaara's A Blaze of Glory: A Novel of the Battle of Shiloh, the first book of his new trilogy.
05/25/2012 @ 12:00AM
Amy Elizabeth Smith, a Jane Austen fan and teacher of her books overseas, chronicles the writer's impact across cultures and languages in her memoir, All Roads Lead to Austen: A Yearlong Journey with Jane. Tip Sheet asked her to rank the Austen novels, and you may be a bit surprised at the results.
05/25/2012 @ 12:00AM
This week: teaching Jane Austen in Latin America, a bloody love story, and a first-rate espionage thriller. Plus: Civil War master Jeff Shaara returns to what he does best.
05/25/2012 @ 12:00AM
Kim Barnes's novel In the Kingdom of Men follows a barefoot girl from red-dirt Oklahoma to a lavish oil company compound in Saudi Arabia. Tip Sheet caught up with Barnes to discuss George Bush, Bedouins, and the place of research in novel writing.
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.
Barbara Vey
As readers we really don't know or necessarily care what goes into the making of a book. Our main concern is reading that amazing story that will transport us to other times and places and take us aw...
Elizabeth Bluemle
When the ship hits the rocks, what do you want to read? Lately, I've been thinking about this a lot, as friends and loved ones have been ricocheting through big changes of all kinds. What I've found, ...
Rose Fox
Mythopoeic and Sturgeon Awards finalists; Spectrum winners....
Adam Boretz
Today, our Informal Audie Awards Poll goes out with a bang: this is the Big One, the Highest Honor, the Superbowl of Audio Awards. Today we bring you, Audiobook of the Year....
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 |
