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PW Picks: The Best New Books for the Week of August 12, 2013

By Gabe Habash | 08/09/2013 @ 05:00AM

This week, 2013's most detestable narrator, the wonderful new Javiar Marías novel, and Orwell's letters. Plus: a mysterious boy who avoids questions about his past in a spooky Maine town.
What It's Like to Take a Class Taught by Borges

By Jorge Luis Borges, translated by Katherine Silver | 08/09/2013 @ 12:00AM

The mesmerizing new book Professor Borges pieces together the writer's 1966 English Literature course. Here's what it was like to be a student in the class.
PW Picks: The Best New Books for the Week of August 5, 2013

By Gabe Habash | 08/02/2013 @ 05:00AM

This week: a coming of age book on the high seas, a must-read crime novel, and a boy who hasn't spoken in over one year. Plus: an absorbing biography of Charles Manson.
How My Day Job Helped Me as a Writer

By J.M. Sidorova | 08/02/2013 @ 05:00AM

If you're in the majority and work a day job when you're not writing, check out J.M. Sidorova's thoughts on balancing the two.
8 Authors Who Crossed the Gender Line

By Adelle Waldman | 07/26/2013 @ 05:00AM

Tolstoy's Anna Karenina, Flaubert's Madame Bovary, and more.
PW Picks: The Best New Books for the Week of July 29, 2013

By Gabe Habash | 07/26/2013 @ 05:00AM

This week, the world's most elusive and delicious cheese, an autistic savant on mathematics and life, and Jason's newest graphic novel. Plus: taking a lit course taught by Borges.
The 10 Best Italo Calvino Books

By Michael Wood | 07/26/2013 @ 12:00AM

The best of the best from the fantasy, science fiction, and fable writer.
PW Picks: The Best New Books for the Week of July 22, 2013

By Gabe Habash | 07/19/2013 @ 05:00AM

This week, how modern crime became modern, David Gilbert's stellar & Sons, and Ben Stroud's stellar Byzantium. Plus: Mr. Darcy's guide to courtship.
The 10 Best Underdogs in Books

By Gavin Extence | 07/19/2013 @ 05:00AM

Frodo, Ron Weasley, and Kilgore Trout. Who else makes the list?
The 10 Best Modernist Books (in English)

By Laura Frost | 07/19/2013 @ 05:00AM

The easy way in to some great, challenging books.
PW Picks: The Best New Books for the Week of July 15, 2013

By Gabe Habash | 07/12/2013 @ 05:00AM

This week: an author who can do seemingly anything with words, a Florida to Alaska road trip, and David Rakoff's novel in verse. Plus, a $50,000 coat.
10 Books Based on Other Books

By Álvaro Enrigue, trans. from the Spanish by Brendan Riley | 07/12/2013 @ 05:00AM

Flaubert, Coetzee, Joyce. Who else took inspiration from earlier books to write their own?
PW Picks: The Best New Books for the Week of July 8, 2013

By Gabe Habash | 07/05/2013 @ 05:00AM

This week: postmodernism depuzzled, Freud's mistress, and adventures with a bald cheerleader. Plus: Stephanie Evanovich's debut.
10 Travel Tips To Keep You From Going Insane at the Airport

By Mark Gerchick | 07/02/2013 @ 05:00AM

Including: don't worry about safety.
PW Picks: The Best New Books for the Week of July 1, 2013

By Gabe Habash | 06/28/2013 @ 05:00AM

This week: a bizarre American history story, a must-read graphic novel, and a mouse with a tail shaped like a question mark. Plus: two perfect thrillers for summer.
10 Children's Books That Never Get Old

By Curtis Sittenfeld | 06/28/2013 @ 05:00AM

Author Curtis Sittenfeld picks the books that she never tires of reading with her kids.
The Obsessives Who Shaped America

By Joshua Kendall | 06/28/2013 @ 05:00AM

Steve Jobs, Charles Lindbergh, among others, have changed the United States while sweating the small stuff.
PW Picks: The Best New Books for the Week of June 24, 2013

By Gabe Habash | 06/21/2013 @ 06:00AM

This week, the worst book ever to take on an airplane, "the skirt amongst men," and why obsessive-compulsives helped build the United States. Plus: Curtis Sittenfeld's latest.
The Most Beautiful Book of 2013 is 'The Graphic Canon, Volume 3'

By Russ Kick | 06/21/2013 @ 05:00AM

If The Graphic Canon, Volume 3 doesn't get you excited, you don't love books.
The 10 Worst Dads in Books

By Fiona Maazel | 06/14/2013 @ 12:00AM

Humbert Humbert and Titus Andronicus--who else shares a spot on the notorious list?

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