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Lost and Alone: PW Talks with Sara Freeman
In 'Tides' (Grove, Jan.), a woman leaves a note for her brother and sister-in-law and sets out with a vague desire to visit the sea.
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Q & A with Alice Walker
Pulitzer Prize winner Alice Walker's new picture book, 'Sweet People Are Everywhere,' presents her poem of the same title, celebrating the shared humanity of people around the world.
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Q & A with Katie Yamasaki
PW spoke with author-illustrator Katie Yamasaki about her new picture book, 'Dad Bakes,' her work with communities impacted by incarceration, and restorative justice.
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Pomp and Circumstance: PW Talks with Tracy Borman
Borman’s 'Crown & Sceptre' (Atlantic Monthly, Feb.) chronicles the British monarchy’s triumphs, scandals, and changes.
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A Different Kind of Crime Family: PW Talks with Robert Goldberg
Goldberg collaborated with his family to complete his late father Gerald Jay’s second mystery featuring Paris Police Commandant Paul Mazarelle, 'The Hanged Man’s Tale' (Doubleday/Talese, Dec.).
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Q & A with Chuck Wendig
Bestselling author Chuck Wendig spoke with us about his latest novel, a debut middle grade fantasy, titled 'Dust & Grim.'
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Q & A with Lilliam Rivera
Pura Belpré Honoree Lilliam Rivera turns to science fiction with her latest YA novel, 'We Light Up the Sky,' which follows three Latinx teens in Los Angeles as they try to stop an alien invasion in the aftermath of the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Mystery and Imagination: Close-up on Melinda Leigh
Bestselling author Leigh chatted with PW about her latest novel in the Bree Taggert series, Right Behind Her, and writing believable narratives with enticing, gut-punching mysteries that keep readers up at night. (Sponsored)
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Crime Wave: PW Talks with Joseph Knox
Joseph Knox’s 'True Crime Story' (Sourcebooks, Dec.) plays with genres—both as a postmodern crime novel that reads like a case file and as an examination of the fascination with true crime itself.
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The White Noise of the South: PW talks with Stacy Willingham
In Stacy Willingham’s thriller 'A Flicker in the Dark' (Minotaur, Jan. 2022), a convicted killer’s daughter grapples with her father’s legacy, and with her terror as young girls begin disappearing, once again, from her Louisiana hometown.
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Making Sense of Freedom: PW Talks with Lea Ypi
In 'Free' (Norton, Jan.), Ypi recounts her experience coming of age in Albania during the fall of Communism.
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A Pandemic of What-Ifs: PW Talks with Delilah Dawson
A disease that causes violent outbursts changes the lives of three generations of abused women in Dawson’s 'The Violence' (Del Rey, Feb.).
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Detective Galileo Returns: PW Talks with Keigo Higashino
In 'Silent Parade' (Minotaur, Dec.), bestselling Japanese author Higashino—who is so reclusive he wouldn’t provide PW with a photograph of himself to accompany this interview—crafts another puzzle for physics professor Manabu Yukawa, whose ingenuity has led the Tokyo police to call him Detective Galileo.
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Q & A with Laura Vaccaro Seeger
Author-illustrator Laura Vaccaro Seeger spoke with us about the final book in her color-inspired trilogy, 'Red'; her rapport with her longtime editor, Neal Porter; and what's next on her creative agenda.
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Q & A with Mo Willems
In 'Opposites Abstract,' illustrator Mo Willems asks readers to think about how 18 paired, non-representational images make us feel as well as how and why we place one idea in opposition to another.
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The Art of Black Folk: 'PW' Talks with Richard J. Powell
Long recognized as an indispensable work on the history of African American visual art, 'Black Art: A Cultural History' by Richard J. Powell, will be released this month in a revised and expanded third edition by Thames & Hudson.
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Hard Work: PW Talks with Charlie Warzel and Anne Helen Petersen
In 'Out of Office' (Knopf, Dec.), Warzel and Petersen survey the current state of remote work and the future of flexibility.
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Their Final Problems: PW Talks with Christopher Fowler
In 'London Bridge Is Falling Down: A Peculiar Crimes Unit Mystery' (Bantam, Dec.), Fowler wraps up his series featuring oddball British cops tackling oddball British crimes.
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Q & A with Barbara Dee
Barbara Dee spoke with us about her new middle grade novel, 'Violets Are Blue,' which tackles tough subjects including divorce and opioid addiction.
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Four Questions for Eugene Yelchin
Russian-born author-illustrator Eugene Yelchin's most recent work, 'The Genius Under the Table: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain,' is a middle grade memoir of his childhood in the former USSR.
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