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To a novice, the mystery and thriller category might seem like a monolith. Insiders know it's a world of subgenres and even sub-subgenres, each with its own codes and conventions. [...]

In June, as the country reckoned very publicly with racial inequality and police brutality after the killing of George Floyd, PW's bestseller list offered a glimpse into Americans' altered reading [...]

The Covid-19 pandemic has made for a quieter political season. Rallies are off, primaries have been delayed or canceled, once heated ideological debates have temporarily cooled. It may not be [...]

The history of LGBTQ publishing is, in many ways, a history of small presses--outlets that showcased LGBTQ life long before mainstream publications or publishers had the nerve to. Now that [...]

Publishing involves a high degree of fortune telling: what will hook readers, in what form, and when:' These questions, already daunting, are further complicated by the stubborn fact of production. [...]

Ivy Pochoda's new novel, Sing Her Down (MCD, May), began as a dare between herself and a friend at a bar. She wondered if one could wri te a female [...]

What is North American cooking? Surely it's an impossible question to answer--but this feature attempts to do just that, through the lens of a season's worth of cookbooks. New titles [...]

It's easy to think of the Stonewall uprising as a discrete moment in LGBTQ history. But the riots, incited by a police raid on the Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village [...]

Few industries have been as direly affected by the Covid-19pandemic as travel. As airlines seek bailouts and resorts struggle to reopen, travel publishers are also feeling the pinch. Who needs [...]

In many ways the coronavirus pandemic has sidelined, or at least scrambled, the usual topics of political debate. Former vice president Joe Biden effectively clinched the Democratic nomination without the [...]

Earlier in her career, when she focused mostly on poetry, Dunya Mikhail swore she would never write a novel. When others asked if she would ever consider it, she told [...]

In the opening pages of The Song of the Cell (Scribner, Oct.), Siddhartha Mukherjee introduces readets to a medical miracle. Her name is Emily Whitehead, and she is famed for [...]

This year, the judges of the BookLife Prize-best-selling authors, the editorial staffs of Publishers Weekly and BookLife, and PW reviewers--looked at more than 900 submissions before selecting just six titles [...]

In its third year, the BookLife Prize--an annual writing contest sponsored by Publishers Weekly and BookLife--received more than 900 submissions . Of those, 30 books advanced to the semifinals. From [...]

On Nov. 11, 1918, at 11 a.m. in Compiegne, France, the Allied powers and Germany officially put into effect their agreement to end hostilities, marking the conclusion of World War [...]

This spring's standout emerging authors include writers from the U.S., the U.K., France, and Nigeria, and their books tackle a dizzying array of themes: female desire, sexual trauma, municipal corruption, [...]

When Anthony Marra began working on his new novel, Mercury Pictures Presents (Hogarth, Aug.), he assumed it would go fairly quickly. His fame-bringing debut, A Constellation of Vital Phenomena, and [...]

Critics receiving the prepublication galleys of Hernan Diaz's new novel, Trust (Riverhead, May), may be forgiven for being confused. The book comes in a box bearing the cover image of [...]

To judge by this season's cookbooks shelf, attitudes toward breads and carb-forward desserts--products lately spurned by health-conscious eaters--have warmed. The sheer number and variety of forthcoming baking books suggest that [...]

While the world lurches toward an uncertain future, the authors of this season's top fiction debuts have their eyes on the past. These novels and story collections, which include a [...]

This season's wellness shelf is as multifarious as ever, touching on sugar, yoga, maternity myths, and more. But across the dozens of forthcoming titles a theme emerges: the importance of [...]

David Wright Falade has been thinking about Richard Etheridge, the protagonist of his debut adult novel, Black Cloud Rising (Atlantic-Monthly, Feb.), for the better part of his life. He first [...]

Tom Bissell isn't quite sure what to call himself. Is he a fiction writer, a journalist, a cultural critic, a video game writer? He's all of these things and, by [...]

BY DANIEL LEFFERTS Amitava Kumar tends to talk about his new novel, A Time Outside This Time (Knopf, Oct.), as if he's still in the process of writing it. He [...]

Whether they offer high-intensity workout plans, recipes for healthy-minded baking, or advice on managing chronic pain, this season's forthcoming health books span the full spectrum from 'drop and give me [...]

For many fans, a discussion of this season's music books could begin and end with the highly anticipated--and embargoed--memoir by Bruce Springsteen, Born to Run (Simon & Schuster, Oct.). But [...]

Where there's smoke there's fire, and if this season's marijuana-related books are any indication, the topic of weed--once alternative, now increasingly mainstream--is burning up. Forthcoming titles include user's guides, cocktail [...]

It often falls to emerging writers to tell us the stories we didn't know we needed to hear, and this season's standout debut authors do just that. These forthcoming titles [...]

It's no secret that the rise of self-publishing, along with the start-and-stop growth of e-book sales, has had profound effects on traditional publishing. But no genre serves as a better [...]

On August 25, the National Park Service, which oversees more than 400 locations throughout the U.S., will celebrate its 100th anniversary. You don't need to tell publishers: several houses have [...]

STEPHANIE DANLER A coming-to-New York story with a culinary twist In fall 2014, the New York Times published a story with the headline 'Waitress Is One of Many New Writers [...]

One of the first things Peter Heller does, after joining a Zoom call to discuss his forthcoming novel, The Guide (Knopf, Aug.), is pick up his laptop and point its [...]

Before the Covid-19 pandemic, the novelist Sunjeev Sahota traveled on something like an annual basis to India, where he has extended family. Over the years, he caught fragments of an [...]

This season, we look at diet and fitness books that fall into two distinct camps: the emotional and the quantifiable. In 'Mind over Matter,' you'll find titles that incorporate mindfulness, [...]

From a family saga steeped in the culture of Barbados to a political drama set in Spain's Basque Country, this season's premier fiction debuts are as diverse in their settings [...]

It's been roughly 2,400 years since the Greek physician Hippocrates (or one of his followers) wrote, in On the Sacred Disease, that 'from nothing else but the brain come joys, [...]

As ISIS's violent campaign unfolds, as fallout from the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is felt around the world, and as the legacy of the Arab Spring continues to perplex and inspire, there [...]

In June 2017, while Americans were furiously debating former FBI director James Comey's testimony on Capitol Hill, the writer and critic Francine Prose offered a staid, almost schoolteacherly response to [...]

In 2012, after a run of successful story collections and novels, including 1999s Pulitzer-winning Interpreter of Maladies, Jhumpa Lahiri embarked on a daring experiment. Having studied Italian off and on [...]

In 2010, Kaitlyn Greenidge was working at Brooklyn's Weeksville Heritage Center, a museum dedicated to preserving the history of a free Black community that was established in 1838. While there, [...]

It's ironic, as well as fitting, that Ayad Akhtar, the Pulitzer-winning playwright and author of 2012's American Dervish, began writing his new novel in Italy. Homeland Elegies (Little, Brown, Sept.) [...]

Helen Macdonald, the nature writer and author of the 2015 memoir H Is for Hauk, is having an enviable Covid-19 lockdown. She Skypes from a sunlit room in her home [...]

From 2004 to 2018, Molly Wizenberg ran the popular food blog Orangette, and in that time she wrote two memoirs: A Homemade Life, which blended recipes with stories about her [...]

Julia Alvarez likes to write about sisterhood. She made herself into a household name with two novels about tight kinships: How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, published in 1991, [...]

This spring's most-anticipated debut novels shake up traditional notions: Ben Metcalf takes on language and Southern culture; Viet Thanh Nguyen offers a new account of the Vietnam conflict, told from [...]

Feel like you're getting old? You're in good company. The U.S. Census Bureau projects that by 2050, the number of Americans aged 65 and older will reach 83.7 million, or [...]

It's a Friday afternoon, and Jenny Offill, author of the widely acclaimed 2014 novel Dept. of Speculation (Vintage), is at her home in the Hudson Valley. She's speaking via Skype, [...]

In August, the Conference Board, a business research group, published the results of its annual survey of worker satisfaction in the U.S. The headline, 'Job Satisfaction Climbs to Highest Levels [...]

The 2016 presidential election laid bare the stark polarization in U.S. politics. As the country approaches the 2020 election while navigating an often politicized pandemic, some may be wondering what [...]