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.
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InterviewsNot That Kind of Jew: PW Talks with Sarah Hurwitz
In ‘As a Jew’ (HarperOne, Sept.), former White House speechwriter Hurwitz explores the cultural forces that have shaped Jewish identity in America.
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Interviews
The Warmest Satirist You’ve Ever Met: PW Talks with Jess Walter
Walter’s latest novel, So Far Gone (Harper, out now), follows an unforgettable family, broken across three generations, trying to put itself back together again on a road trip around the Pacific Northwest.
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Interviews
Beyond the Book: Jesse Byrd's 'Dream Warriors'
Award-winning children’s author, former college basketball star, and literary agent, Jesse Byrd, talks to his agent, Regina Brooks of Serendipity Literary, about the inspiration behind his new middle grade graphic novel, 'Dream Warriors.' (Sponsored)
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Interviews
The Writer Who’s Getting Lisbeth Salander to Open Up: PW Talks with Karin Smirnoff
In ‘The Girl with Ice in Her Veins’ (Knopf, Sept.), the first female author of a Millennium series novel puts Lisbeth Salander’s niece at the center of a town’s violent struggle for mineral rights.
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Interviews
The Key to Surviving: PW Talks with Daniel Gumbiner
The Believer editor talks about how the beloved Bay Area literary magazine was revived, what we can expect in its future, and why lit mags matter now more than ever.
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Profiles
Alan Gratz Is Going for the Gold
Riding the wave of interest in middle grade historical fiction, Alan Gratz returns to Nazi Germany with a fast-paced Olympic thriller.
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BookLife
Breaking the Silence
Activist Mary Fisher’s new memoir seeks the truth.
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Interviews
Beyond the Book: Sara Raasch and Beth Revis's 'Crimson Throne'
Sara Raasch and Beth Revis, whose new book 'The Crimson Throne' (Sourcebooks Fire) bows in October, spoke with PW about the draw of historical romantasy, literary Easter eggs, and the joys of tag-team writing. (Sponsored)
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Interviews
‘Not Just a Literary Prize’: PW Talks with the 2025 Women’s Prize Winners
Yael van der Wouden and Rachel Clarke won this year’s Women’s Prizes for Fiction and Non-Fiction for their respective books The Safekeep and The Story of a Heart. The U.K.-based Women’s Prize for Fiction, which recognizes women novelists working in English, is now in its 30th year, while its sister award for nonfiction was launched in 2024.
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Interviews
From Censorship to Fascism to Extermination: PW Talks with Will Potter
In Little Red Barns (City Lights, July), the investigative journalist documents the decade he spent inside what he calls “secret world of disinformation, corporate corruption, and social control” while uncovering the connections between factory farming and the rise of authoritarianism in the U.S.
