International Adoption, Child-Trafficking, and China’s One Child Policy: PW Talks with Barbara Demick
In Daughters of the Bamboo Grove (Random House, May), the journalist profiles twins separated as toddlers by China’s one child policy and America’s demand for international adoptees. more...
Dennis McNally Is Still Dreaming After All These Years
In his latest book, the historian and former Grateful Dead publicist looks back on the origins of the 1960s counterculture and explains how the hippies changed America. more...
It’s All Greek to Stephen Fry
The author and entertainer returns with a conversational retelling of ‘The Odyssey’ that keys into the tale’s timeless appeal. more...
Unparenting the American Dream: PW Talks with Marina Lopes
In Please Yell at My Kids, Brazilian American journalist Marina Lopes encourages American parents to rethink rugged individualism and offers internationally tested advice on building the proverbial village. more...and more.
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Interviews‘Not Just a Literary Prize’: PW Talks with the 2025 Women’s Prize Winners
Yael van der Wouden and Rachel Clarke won this year’s Women’s Prizes for Fiction and Non-Fiction for their respective books The Safekeep and The Story of a Heart. The U.K.-based Women’s Prize for Fiction, which recognizes women novelists working in English, is now in its 30th year, while its sister award for nonfiction was launched in 2024.
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Interviews
From Censorship to Fascism to Extermination: PW Talks with Will Potter
In Little Red Barns (City Lights, July), the investigative journalist documents the decade he spent inside what he calls “secret world of disinformation, corporate corruption, and social control” while uncovering the connections between factory farming and the rise of authoritarianism in the U.S.
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BookLife
Indie Spotlight: June 2025
In this edition of our monthly roundup of BookLife titles, we feature mysteries and thrillers.
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Interviews
Ladies of the Canyon: PW Talks with Ella Berman
The author talks about the inspiration behind ‘L.A. Women,’ a novel of camaraderie and competition between writers Lane Warren and Gala Margolis in 1960s Los Angeles.
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Interviews
A Little Gift to the Future: PW Talks with Maria Popova
The writer of the nearly 20-year-old literary blog the Marginalian has long fretted how many of her favorite books are out of print. Now, her new imprint—a collaboration with McNally Jackson owner Sarah McNally (l.)—is bringing back some handpicked hidden gems.
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Profiles
Miriam Toews’s True Story
In her first memoir in two decades, the author looks back on the writing life and family tragedies with grace and subtle humor.
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Interviews
What the Loves of James Baldwin’s Life Taught Him: PW Talks with Nicholas Boggs
The biographer’s ‘Baldwin: A Love Story’ unpacks ‘The Fire Next Time’ author’s life and work through accounts of his four most significant relationships.
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Profiles
PW Close-Up: Library BuyBack Program from ThriftBooks Expands Revenue Opportunities
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Interviews
Cold War Courtship: PW Talks with Iain Pears
The novelist shifts to nonfiction with ‘Parallel Lives’ (Norton, Aug.), which traces how British art historian Francis Haskell and Soviet curator Larissa Salmina met and fell in love.
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Interviews
Highway to Hell: PW Talks with R.F. Kuang
The bestseller sends a graduate student to the underworld to resurrect her adviser in 'Katabasis' (Harper Voyager, Aug.).
