Why I’ll Never Read a Book a Week Ever Again
But reading a book a week made it harder to justify abandonment. I didn’t want to fall behind. The thought of that sent my Type A brain into a tailspin.
Most Anticipated: The Great First-Half Preview
Weighing in at 140-something books, this is truly The Millions' most gratuitously enormous book preview to date.and more.
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PW Picks: Books of the Week, Jan. 19, 2020
This week, we highlight a majestic novel from Isabel Allende, a collection of occult detective stories, a book of essays commemorating the ACLU’s centennial, and more.
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PW Staff Picks: The Best Books We Read in 2019
Though we've named our best books of 2019, we all have our personal favorites, and not all of them are from 2019. These are the best books we read this year.
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PW Picks: Books of the Week, Jan. 12, 2020
This week, we highlight a powerful and unsettling debut by Ani Katz; a cleverly crafted memoir by Javier Cercas; a tangled, riveting parable of the modern surveillance state by Joanna Kavenna; and more
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PW Picks: Books of the Week, Jan. 5, 2020
This week, we highlight a writing guide from Chuck Palahniuk; a candid and fascinating portrait of young American masculinity from Peggy Orenstein; a ruminative, endlessly clever book by Pulitzer Prize–winner Robert Hass; and a whole lot more.
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The Most-Read Book Reviews of 2019
Of the thousands of book reviews we published this year, these are the 10 most-read reviews of books that published in 2019.
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PW Picks: Books of the Week, Dec. 8, 2019
This week, we highlight an unusual, bittersweet coming-of-age novel from Saskia Sarginson; the second installment in Suzanne M. Wolfe's An Elizabethan Spy Mystery series, a contemporary romance from Colleen Hoover; an impressive and formally versatile poetry debut from Patrick Johnson, and a whole lot more.
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PW Picks: Books of the Week, November 25, 2019
This week: why we're wrong about nearly everything, plus Bohumil Hrabal's meditations on living with cats.
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PW Picks: Books of the Week, November 18, 2019
This week: a woman who gave birth to rabbits, plus a brilliant mystery set in 15th-century England.
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10 Things You (Probably) Didn't Know About C.S. Lewis
Including: Lewis gave away his royalties and how he helped Tolkien write 'The Lord of the Rings.'
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10 Must-Read Crime Books Set in the American West
Books by Willa Cather, Louise Erdrich, and more.
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