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. Sign up here!
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InterviewsDemocratizing Therapy: PW Talks with Rahim Thawer
In The Mental Health Guide for Cis and Trans Queer Guys, Thawer, a clinical social worker and podcaster, outlines an inclusive toolkit.
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Profiles
Christine Pride’s Second-Chance Romance
The author dated the same two men in her 20s and in her 40s—and used the experience as fuel for her first solo novel.
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Interviews
Portrait of a Time: PW Talks with Anika Burgess
In ‘Flashes of Brilliance’ (Norton, July), the photo editor traces the evolution of photography from the mid-19th to the early 20th century.
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Interviews
The Editor in My Head: PW Talks with Kerry Cullen
‘House of Beth’ (Simon & Schuster, July), the novelist’s gothic-tinged debut, follows an OCD-challenged young woman’s harrowing return to her New Jersey hometown.
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Interviews
The Reykjavík Literary Festival at 40: PW Talks with Stella Johannesdottir
One of Iceland’s top literary agents is working to keep the Reykjavík International Literary Festival, which she helps produce, at the forefront of the international literary scene.
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Interviews
Plan Like a Raven, Write Like a Fox: PW Talks with Antonia Hodgson
The award-winning historical mystery author explains how she managed to combine epic fantasy with a fair-play whodunit in The Raven Scholar, the first volume of her Eternal Path trilogy.
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Profiles
For Lena Khalaf Tuffaha, Joy and Grief Are Intertwined
The poet, who is of Palestinian, Jordanian, and Syrian heritage, hopes her recent National Book Award win for Something About Living can bring heightened visibility and more opportunities to Arab American writers and readers.
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Interviews
The Beauty of Taking Control: PW Talks with Yudori
The Korean artist discusses her fierce feminist manhwa debut, ‘Raging Clouds’ (Fantagraphics, July), which garnered a PW starred review.
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Profiles
Tatiana de Rosnay’s Wild Horses
A young chambermaid, a legendary movie star, and the mustangs of Nevada converge in the author’s American West.
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Interviews
Translating Myself: PW Talks with Jonas Hassen Khemiri
The National Book Award finalist discusses what made him decide to write his latest novel, ‘The Sisters’ (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, June), in English, then Swedish, and finally in English again.
