International Adoption, Child-Trafficking, and China’s One Child Policy: PW Talks with Barbara Demick
In Daughters of the Bamboo Grove (Random House, May), the journalist profiles twins separated as toddlers by China’s one child policy and America’s demand for international adoptees. more...
Dennis McNally Is Still Dreaming After All These Years
In his latest book, the historian and former Grateful Dead publicist looks back on the origins of the 1960s counterculture and explains how the hippies changed America. more...
It’s All Greek to Stephen Fry
The author and entertainer returns with a conversational retelling of ‘The Odyssey’ that keys into the tale’s timeless appeal. more...
Unparenting the American Dream: PW Talks with Marina Lopes
In Please Yell at My Kids, Brazilian American journalist Marina Lopes encourages American parents to rethink rugged individualism and offers internationally tested advice on building the proverbial village. more...and more. Sign up here!
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PW Close-Up: Highlights Press Celebrates 10 Years with Two New Innovative Titles
Celebrating 10 years, Highlights Press sparks curiosity among a new generation of young readers with its new cookbook and toy brand collaboration. (Sponsored)
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PW Close-Up: Kanopy Wants You to "Stream Smarter"
With original content and an expanded catalog of more than 30,000 titles, Kanopy enters a new age of streaming.
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Building Effective Advocates: PW Talks with Amanda Kordeliski
Incoming AASL president Amanda Kordeliski shares her vision for how the organization can support school librarians.
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The Young Lions Fiction Award at 25: PW Talks with Brian Bannon
The Merryl and James Tisch Director at the New York Public Library looks back on the impact of the Young Lions Fiction Award, now in its 25th year, which has served as an early career stepstone for such now-canonical authors as Teju Cole and Jesmyn Ward.
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Rock ’n’ Roll’s Most Notorious Manager Gets a Bad Rap: PW Talks with Peter Guralnick
In ‘The Colonel and the King’ (Little, Brown, Aug.), the biographer draws from archival material to paint a fresh portrait of Elvis Presley’s manager, Colonel Tom Parker.
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Heroic Energy: PW Talks with Nolan Chase
In ‘A Lonesome Place for Murder’ (Crooked Lane, Aug.), Washington State police chief Ethan Brand tackles the apparent murder of a former friend on the U.S.-Canada border.
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Holly Smale Is Living Out Loud
For Smale, being diagnosed with autism at age 39 changed her life and reshaped her fiction.
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Still a Little Salacious: PW Talks with Katie Fricas
Fricas’s “jagged yet joyful” (per PW’s review) semi-autobiographical graphic novel debut, Checked Out features a queer 20-something cartoonist and library page.
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ALA 2025: Don’t Give in to FOMO: PW Talks with Brandie Nonnecke
An AI expert considers the appeal, and the shortcoming, of Big Tech’s shiny new toys.
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