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  • Nonfiction Reviews

    | 02/02/2009 @ 07:00AM

    To Live or Perish Forever: Two Tumultuous Years in Pakistan Nicholas Schmidle . Holt , $25 (272p) ISBN 978-0-8050-8938-7 Journalist Schmidle offers a gripping, grim account of his two years as a journalism fellow in Pakistan, where his travels took him into the most isolated and unfriendly provinces, and into the thick of interests and beliefs that impede that nation's peace and progress.

  • Secrets of Statecraft

    | 02/02/2009 @ 07:00AM

    Power Rules: How Common Sense Can Rescue American Foreign Policy Leslie H. Gelb . HarperCollins , $27.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-06-171454-2 Gelb, Pulitzer Prize—winning columnist for the New York Times, sets out guidelines for stewarding American power through the 21st century in this thoughtful, comprehensive and engaging examination.

  • Web Exclusive Reviews: Week of 02/02/2009

    | 02/02/2009 @ 05:00AM

  • First Second To Publish Scott McCloud

    By Calvin Reid | 01/30/2009 @ 09:28PM

    First Second Books announced plans to publish two new books by acclaimed comics artist and theoretician Scott McCloud.

  • Why Hollywood Loves the Comics

    By Calvin Reid | 01/27/2009 @ 09:29PM

    PWCW talks to film agent Scott Agostoni, director of the William Morris Agency's comics division, about the ongoing love affair between Hollywood and comics.

  • Jeff Smith’s Bone Saga Ends—Again

    By Kate Culkin | 01/27/2009 @ 09:28PM

    Graphix, the Scholastic division focused on comics and graphic novels for children, released the ninth and final color volume of Jeff Smith’s epic fantasy adventure series Bone this month.

  • What a Girl Wants Is Often a Comic

    By Evie Nagy | 01/27/2009 @ 07:30PM

    Jane Yolen to Publish Graphic Novel with Dark Horse as Publishers Weigh the Teen Girl Market for American Comics

  • Comics Briefly

    Compiled by Kate Fitzsimons | 01/27/2009 @ 04:51PM

  • The Best Comics You'll (Probably) Never Read

    By Sam Thielman | 01/26/2009 @ 08:39PM

    Sam Thielman looks back at some of the great unfinished comcis projects of the past 30 years.

  • Web Exclusive Reviews: Week of 1/26/09

    | 01/26/2009 @ 07:00AM

    This Week's Web: Israeli and Palestinian writers interviewed in Norweigian; an ancient mechanical artifact of Indiana Jones; Kiyosaki gets spiritual; and more confessions than you require. Plus: literary roundup with books on Ginsberg, Snyder, Richard Matheson, and refugee writers.

  • Nonfiction Reviews

    | 01/26/2009 @ 07:00AM

    Closing Time: A Memoir Joe Queenan . Viking , $26.95 (340p) ISBN 978-0-670-02063-8 Humorist and pop culture writer Queenan (Queenan Country) turns the mirror on himself in this somber and funny memoir about life with father in the projects of Philadelphia. Queenan closes the chapter on his life with a verbally and physically abusive alcoholic father.

  • Children's Book Reviews: Week of 1/26/2009

    | 01/26/2009 @ 07:00AM

    Picture Books Good Night, Baby Ruby Rohan Henry . Abrams , $14.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8109-8323-6 Her parents say it’s bedtime, but preverbal Ruby is proving elusive. With her pet cat at her heels, she runs away to play with the newspaper, hide in the closet and make mischief with the flowerpots.

  • Fiction Reviews

    | 01/26/2009 @ 07:00AM

    Burnt Shadows Kamila Shamsie . Picador , $14 paper (368p) ISBN 978-0-312-55187-2 Shamsie takes readers on a tour de force in this examination of the impact of war, following a trajectory from the devastation of Nagasaki in WWII through the conflict-ridden formation of Pakistan in the late 1940s to post-9/11 Manhattan and war-torn Afghanistan.

  • Layoffs at Diamond, DC Comics, Top Cow

    By Heidi MacDonald | 01/23/2009 @ 08:49PM

    Several comics and graphic novel companies announced layoffs and cutbacks, among them Diamond Comics Distributors, DC Comics and California comics publisher Top Cow.

  • Graphic Sales Grow at Denver’s Tattered Cover

    By Judith Rosen | 01/20/2009 @ 09:15PM

    Graphic novel sales at independent Denver bookseller the Tattered Cover's three stores are bigger than both Romance and philosophy sales.

  • Life in Comics# 11: What Women Want

    by Jennifer de Guzman | 01/20/2009 @ 09:14PM

    Do women need superheroes as role mdels? Should they? Our columnist looks at the debate currently raging.

  • Grant Morrison, Final Crisis, and the Superhero Genre

    By Jeffery Klaehn | 01/20/2009 @ 09:10PM

    In part 2 of an interview with acclaimed superhero comics writer Grant Morrison, PWCW talks about Morrison’s work on DC’s Final Crisis series, a new Batman series in the spring and new work to be published by Vertigo.

  • Living and Drawing in the Subway

    By Calvin Reid | 01/20/2009 @ 05:33PM

    Youme Landowne, a white female artist, met Anthony Horton, a black homeless artist, on a subway platform and the result is Pitch Black, a childrens graphic novel.

  • Comics Briefly - 1/21/09

    Compiled by Kate Fitzsimons | 01/19/2009 @ 10:22PM

    Diamond Raises Order Minimums; Kyle Baker Comic Free Online; Golden Apple Comics Owner Interviewed; Satrapi and Ware Onstage; and Brevoort hosts "Take My Trade!"

  • Web Exclusive Reviews: Week of 1/19/2009

    | 01/19/2009 @ 07:00AM
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