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The Words of the Living God: PW Talks with Edward Feld
In 'The Book of Revolutions' (Jewish Publication Society, Sept.), rabbi Feld digs into the Covenant, Deuteronomic, and Holiness Codes in the Hebrew Bible and shows how critical study of scripture can yield new spiritual understandings.
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A Bird’s-Eye View of History: PW Talks with Tim Birkhead
In 'Birds and Us: A 12,000-Year History from Cave Art to Conservation' (Princeton Univ., Aug.), ornithologist Birkhead traces the history of humans’ relationships with avian creatures.
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Returning to War: PW Talks with Abdulrazak Gurnah
In 'Afterlives' (Riverhead, Aug.), Nobel laureate Gurnah portrays ordinary Africans against the backdrop of European colonialism and war.
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Kill My Husband, Please!: PW Talks with Larry Beinhart
In Beinhart’s 'The Deal Goes Down' (Melville House, Aug.), PI Tony Casella is approached by a woman who wants him to kill her husband.
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The Best of Editing: PW Talks with Kate Gavino
Gavino’s 'A Career in Books' (Plume, Aug.) follows three friends as they climb the lower rungs of the New York City publishing industry.
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Pride 2022: Interviews with Authors on Their LGBTQ+ YA Novels
Wrapping up our series of interviews in honor of Pride Month, we asked the creators of five YA books about centering queer youth in their stories, visibility in literature, and their hopes for the future of LGBTQ+ children's books.
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Q & A with Matthew Cordell
PW spoke with Caldecott Medalist Matthew Cordell about the newest entry in his series of early readers, Cornbread and Poppy, and the lure of eccentric characters.
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Lights, Camera, Swing!: Jazz In the Movies
In her new book, Gretchen L. Carlson illuminates the differences between jazz scores and conventional soundtracks, examining innovative jazz collaborations by such distinctive filmmakers as Spike Lee, and Alejandro González Iñárritu.
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In Conversation: Jyoti Rajan Gopal and Supriya Kelkar
We asked author Jyoti Rajan Gopal and illustrator Supriya Kelkar to interview each other about their debut picture book, 'American Desi,' and the rich diversity of South Asian American identities.
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Pride 2022: Interviews with Authors on Their LGBTQ+ Middle Grade Novels
In honor of Pride Month, we asked the creators of five middle grade books about centering queer youth in their stories, visibility in literature, and their hopes for the future of queer children's books.
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Across the Viral Divide: PW Talks with Steven W. Thrasher
In 'The Viral Underclass' (Celadon, Aug.), LGBTQ scholar Thrasher examines how Covid-19 and other viruses expose and exploit systemic inequalities in the U.S.
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Cult Fiction: PW Talks with Catriona Ward
Two girls, Eve and Dinah, come of age in an island cult at the close of WWI in Ward’s Shirley Jackson Award–winning gothic, 'Little Eve' (Nightfire, Oct.).
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Don’t Kill the Kids: PW Talks with Robert Pobi
In Pobi’s 'Do No Harm' (Minotaur, Aug.), astrophysicist Lucas Page helps the FBI crack a baffling series of murders.
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Pride 2022: Interviews with Authors on Their LGBTQ+ Picture Books
In honor of Pride Month, we asked the creators of five picture books about centering queer youth in their stories, visibility in literature, and their hopes for the future of queer children’s books.
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The Rhythm of Friendship: PW Talks with Hua Hsu
In 'Stay True' (Doubleday, Sept.), 'New Yorker' staff writer Hsu recounts his experience growing up in 1990s California as the son of Taiwanese immigrants, and the personal reckoning that came after the death of a close friend.
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Who Was Hester Prynne?: PW Talks with Laurie Lico Albanese
In 'Hester' (St Martin’s, Aug.), Albanese imagines a character who inspired Nathaniel Hawthorne’s 'The Scarlet Letter.'
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Spy vs. Spy: PW Talks with Ava Glass
Glass, the pseudonym of Christi Daugherty (the YA Night School thrillers), introduces a novice British spy, Emma Makepeace, in 'Alias Emma' (Bantam, Aug.).
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The Language of the Body: PW Talks with Stephanie McCarter
In her forthcoming translation of Ovid’s 'Metamorphoses' (Penguin Classics, Sept.), classicist McCarter renders the poet’s concern with questions of power, violence, and gender intelligible to a contemporary audience.
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Q & A with Kiersten White
Bestselling YA author Kiersten White spoke with us about the first installment of her debut middle grade Sinister Summer series, 'Wretched Waterpark.'
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Muchness in 14 Lines: PW Talks to Diane Seuss
We spoke with the most recent winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry about her award-winning volume 'frank: sonnets,' the sheer range of the sonnet form, and more.
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