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Voices of Dissent: PW Talks with Karima Bennoune
Human-rights lawyer, activist, and U.C. Davis professor Karima Bennoune channels the diverse artists and human-rights workers resisting extremism in Muslim-majority countries in Your Fatwa Does Not Apply Here.
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Shooting the Sh*t: PW Talks With David Waltner-Toews
Veterinarian and epidemiologist Waltner-Toews’s The Origin of Feces is a comprehensive look at the social and ecological history of excrement, and global problems we face today.
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Organic Food Nation: PW Talks with Forrest Pritchard
In Gaining Ground, Forrest Pritchard recounts his against-all-odds story of taking his struggling family livestock farm into the growing organic farmers’ market movement in ways that will make you reconsider how and where you purchase your food.
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Q & A with Cecil Castellucci and Sara Varon
PW spoke with illustrator Sara Varon and writer Castellucci to hear about how two self-proclaimed odd ducks combined forces to create Odd Duck, an unconventional – and very funny – book.
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Conspiring with the Enemy: PW Talks With Arturo Fontaine
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Time, Space, and Other Problems: PW Talks with James Kelman
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A Transformed World: PW Talks With Kate Bornstein
Performance artist, writer, and theorist Bornstein’s My New Gender Workbook is an updated version of her innovative and influential 1997 text.
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Feeling the Burn: PW Talks with Christine Montross
In Falling into the Fire: A Psychiatrist’s Encounters with the Mind in Crisis, clinical psychiatrist Christine Montross discusses the professional, ethical, and moral difficulties of treating troubled patients.
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Maine Man: PW Talks with Paul Doiron
A new national park sparks controversy in Massacre Pond, Paul Doiron’s fourth mystery featuring Maine game warden Mike Bowditch.
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Easily Influenced: PW Talks with Lottie Moggach
In her debut, Kiss Me First, Lottie Moggach examines pervasive and troubling aspects of the Internet and social media.
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Moments of Decision: PW talks to Marcia Coyle
National Law Journal correspondent Marcia Coyle chronicles the Supreme Court battles that are reshaping American law and policy in The Roberts Court: The Struggle for the Constitution.
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Q & A with Julie Kagawa
The Eternity Cure, the second book in Julie Kagawa's dystopian vampire trilogy, Blood of Eden.
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Q & A with Paul Rudnick
Paul Rudnick's first YA book, Gorgeous, tells the story of a girl in a trailer park who instead of three wishes is granted three magic dresses and perfect beauty by an all-powerful clothing designer.
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Physics, Metaphysics, and Reality: PW Talks with Jim Baggott
Modern physicists have spent decades struggling to explain the universe with more and more baroque theories.
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Political Dirty Work: PW Talks with Mike Lawson
In Mike Lawson’s eighth Joe DeMarco thriller, House Odds, DeMarco has to get the grown daughter of his boss, former House Speaker John Mahoney, out of trouble.
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Human Drama: PW Talks with Aifric Campbell
Former Morgan Stanley managing director Aifric Campbell reflects on the financial crisis and what led her to create the world of a brilliant, burned-out banker in her new novel, On the Floor.
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Season of the Witchdoctor: PW Talks With Michael Stanley
Witchcraft-related murders are at the heart of Deadly Harvest, the pseudonymous Stanley’s fourth Botswana whodunit.
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The Accidental Food Writer: PW Talks With Julia Reed
New Orleans-based Reed’s But Mama Always Put Vodka in Her Sangria, Adventures in Eating, Drinking and Making Merry is rife with enticing recipes and equally appetizing anecdotes.
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You Think You’ll Live Forever: PW Talks with Ajit Varki
Biologist Ajit Varki, coauthor (with the late Danny Brower) of Denial: Self-Deception, False Beliefs and the Origins of the Human Mind, argues that the defiance of mortality is what makes us human.
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Q & A with Sara Zarr
In The Lucy Variations, Sara Zarr's fifth novel, 16-year-old Lucy has stepped away from her blossoming career as a concert pianist, and is struggling to redefine what role music will play in her life.



