Books on current affairs were in the spotlight when PW reviews editor David Adams sat down with the editors of eight important fall titles.

The books, all selected by PW, were: A Bigger Picture: My Fight to Bring a New African Voice to the Climate Crisis by Vanessa Nakate (HMH); The End of Bias, a Beginning: The Science and Practice of Overcoming Unconscious Bias by Jessica Nordell (Metropolitan); Learning in Public: Lessons for a Racially Divided America from My Daughter’s School by Courtney E. Martin (Little, Brown); The Least of Us: True Tales of America and Hope in the Age of Fentanyl and Meth by Sam Quinones (Bloomsbury); The Power of Women by Denis Mukwege (Flatiron/Oprah); Refugee High: Coming of Age in America by Elly Fishman (New Press); Until I Am Free: Fannie Lou Hamer’s Enduring Message to America by Keisha N. Blain (Beacon); and The Vote Collectors: The True Story of the Scamsters, Politicians, and Preachers Behind the Nation’s Greatest Electoral Fraud by Michael Graff and Nick Ochsner (Ferris and Ferris).

Watch the entire discussion above.