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PW Picks: The Best New Books for the Week of June 17, 2012
This week: the new Dave Eggers novel, turning a crack house into a dream home, and a salacious (and true!) Victorian divorce case. Plus, what happens when an astronaut returns home to find his family in pieces?
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How 'Tristram Shandy' Saved My Mom
In this essay from his collection We Learn Nothing, Tim Kreider reads the famously frustrating book to his convalescing mother in the hospital.
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Translating a Pablo Neruda Mystery
The translator for The Neruda Case, Carolina De Robertis, discusses the fine details of translation within the context of the book's missing person mystery, starring none other than Pablo Neruda himself.
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The Top 10 Nabokov Short Stories
The fanatical Anatomy of a Short Story looks at Nabokov's "Signs and Symbols" from every possible angle. Yuri Leving, the book's editor, gives us his 10 favorite Nabokov short stories.
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PW Picks: The Best New Books for the Week of June 11, 2012
This week: a missing person mystery starring Pablo Neruda, Tennessee Williams's family troubles, and a relationship dissected in The Forever Marriage. Plus: why Darwin didn't discover evolution by himself.
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The Loneliness of Delaying Death: PW Talks with Jill Lepore
In The Mansion of Happiness: A History of Life and Death, Jill Lepore examines life's stages, beginning before birth and ending after death, covering everything from cryogenics to breast pumps. PW Tip Sheet caught up with Lepore to find out how much we know about life and death.
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When Fiction Beats Fact: Antony Beevor on Imagining WWII
Antony Beevor's newest book, The Second World War, compresses the entirety of the century's most important event into a single volume. In this essay for Tip Sheet, Beevor tackles the perils of "faction."
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PW Picks: The Best New Books for the Week of June 4, 2012
This week: Gillian Flynn's highly anticipated Gone Girl, a legless girl causes a bizarre military impasse, and an exploration of morality. Plus, James Joyce and World War II each get comprehensive accounts.
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How Sex Changed James Joyce
In this excerpt from the most comprehensive Joyce biography since Richard Ellman's James Joyce, Gordon Bowker explores the sexual awakening in the pious young Joyce.
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Disneyland in Saudi Arabia: PW Talks with Kim Barnes
Kim Barnes's novel In the Kingdom of Men follows a barefoot girl from red-dirt Oklahoma to a lavish oil company compound in Saudi Arabia. Tip Sheet caught up with Barnes to discuss George Bush, Bedouins, and the place of research in novel writing.
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PW Picks: The Best New Books for the Week of May 28, 2012
This week: teaching Jane Austen in Latin America, a bloody love story, and a first-rate espionage thriller. Plus: Civil War master Jeff Shaara returns to what he does best.
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The Jane Austen Novels Ranked
Amy Elizabeth Smith, a Jane Austen fan and teacher of her books overseas, chronicles the writer's impact across cultures and languages in her memoir, All Roads Lead to Austen: A Yearlong Journey with Jane. Tip Sheet asked her to rank the Austen novels, and you may be a bit surprised at the results.
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Excerpt: Jeff Shaara's 'A Blaze of Glory'
Confederate cavalry lieutenant James Seeley defends a depot in the tense opening chapter of Jeff Shaara's A Blaze of Glory: A Novel of the Battle of Shiloh, the first book of his new trilogy.
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PW Picks: The Best New Books for the Week of May 21, 2012
Among our faves this week: new novels from Richard Ford, Bruce DeSilva, Kim Stanley Robinson, Alyson Noël, and Jeffrey B. Burton, plus an Austen-centric debut from Kim Izzo.
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First Look: Expelled by Luke Harding
The new Russian criminal state makes a disturbing first impression in a memoir from The Guardian's recently-deported Moscow correspondent.
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Rivers of Sewage and Radiation: PW Talks with Andrew Blackwell
With Visit Sunny Chernobyl, journalist-filmmaker Andrew Blackwell tours the most polluted spots on earth -- and makes a pretty good case that you should, too.
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What's New in Cuba: Images from 'Cuba: Contemporary Art'
Get your first look at an exceptional new volume of contemporary Cuban art that PW called beautiful, stunning, and rare.
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First Look: As the Crow Flies by Craig Johnson
A&E is set to launch "Longmire" in June, based on the novels of Craig Johnson—the latest of which is about to hit stores. With this look at the first chapter, you can say you knew him back when.
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PW Picks: The Best New Books for the Week of May 14
Fiction from Craig Johnson, China Mieville, Timeri Murari, Peter Carey, Garth Nix, and Tania James; the first collection of Batman’s “New 52” incarnation; the follow-up to Sh*t My Dad Says, and more.
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