Daunt Relishes Challenge of Leading B&N 2019-06-09 00:00:00

The Hunt for a BookExpo Buzz Book (shelftalker) 2019-06-07 08:00:09The dazzling confidence of ‘Pet’ by Akwaeke Emezi.

Tall Histories: PW Talks with Curdella Forbes 2019-06-07 00:00:00

A New Playbook At First Book 2019-06-07 00:00:00The D.C.-based organization is looking for ways to keep up with demand for the books it's been putting into the hands of children in need since 1992.

A Strong Pulse for Dead Reckoning Graphic Novels 2019-06-07 00:00:00The Naval Institute Press has set a dramatic course for its graphic novel imprint.

Dutton Will Drop Linda Fairstein 2019-06-07 00:00:00

Inside National Geographic's Explorers’ Archive 2019-06-07 00:00:00National Geographic boasts a library bursting with information on exploration.

The Making of ‘The Presidents’ 2019-06-07 00:00:00C-SPAN used a team approach to release its 10th publication, which was published in April.

ALA 2019: Thank You, Archivists 2019-06-07 00:00:00Why librarians should find time in their busy schedules at the ALA Annual Conference in Washington to see some of our nation’s most treasured do

Looking Beyond Books In the Nation's Capital 2019-06-07 00:00:00Washington, D.C., publishers are embracing multimedia, with books at the center.

Book Deals: Week of June 7, 2019 2019-06-07 00:00:00

Bilingual Books in Spanish 2019-06-07 00:00:00Changing demographics have created a growing demand from parents and educators for bilingual titles for young readers.

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From The New Deal To The Green New 2019-06-09 11:14:42A historian delves into American liberalism's original Big Idea.

How I Got My Toddler Back On Books 2019-06-06 11:39:29I want my kid to treasure that magical reading time as much as I did growing up.

The Radical Empathy of Tim Murphy 2019-06-05 00:01:20The novelist drew upon his experience as a journalist and activist to create the sweeping, emotionally resonant novel "Correspondents."

Tony Robbins' New Book Dropped Amid Sexual Harassment 2019-05-30 16:05:23A Simon & Schuster representative said that plans have changed.

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Sunday Reading: Pride and the Fiftieth Anniversary of 2019-06-09 05:00:00From The New Yorker’s archive, pieces by Anthony Hiss, Frances FitzGerald, Alex Ross, Michael Specter, Ariel Levy, Masha Gessen, and Mark Selige

“The Greatest Urdu Stories Ever Told” Is a 2019-06-07 05:00:00Saira Khan writes about the short-story collection “The Greatest Urdu Stories Ever Told.”

Witnesses to D Day 2019-06-06 13:40:20Roger Angell on the New Yorker writers and editors A. J. Liebling and Gardner Botsford, who witnessed the events of D Day, either as reporters or as s

How Dr. Seuss Changed Education in America 2019-06-05 05:00:00I-Huei Go on Theodor Seuss Geisel, better known as Dr. Seuss, and how his children’s classics—such as “The Cat in the Hat,” &l

My Mother and the Failed Experiment of Yugoslavia 2019-06-05 05:00:00Aleksandar Hemon on the life his mother built in the former Yugoslavia and her experience of the breakup of the country.

In “The Collected Schizophrenias,” Esmé Weijun Wang Maps 2019-06-04 10:00:00Anna Altman writes about “The Collected Schizophrenias,” an essay collection by Esmé Weijun Wang, and what it reveals about mental

What We’re Reading in the Summer of 2019 2019-06-04 05:00:00The New Yorker writers Jia Tolentino, Masha Gessen, Hua Hsu, Troy Patterson, and more, recommend books to read this summer, including “No Visibl

Ta-Nehisi Coates Reads “Conduction” 2019-06-04 00:00:00Deborah Treisman hosts the author Ta-Nehisi Coates, who reads his short story “Conduction,” from the June 10 & 17, 2019, issue of The

“The Ledge,” by Glyn Maxwell 2019-06-03 05:00:00Poetry by Glyn Maxwell: “You said you wanted to be young again, / which left me with this nothing left to say.”

“Conduction,” by Ta-Nehisi Coates 2019-06-03 05:00:00Fiction by Ta-Nehisi Coates: “I was fresh out of Virginia, fresh out of the pit, my remarkable escape still alive in my mind.”

“I Wanted to Be Surprised,” by Jane Hirshfield 2019-06-03 05:00:00Poetry by Jane Hirshfield: “To such a request, the world is obliging.”

“Javi,” by Han Ong 2019-06-03 05:00:00Fiction by Han Ong: “She takes out the fake I.D., glances at it for a moment, and then gives it to Javier. No fuss, as if she weren’t

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Penguin Classics adds four books by Asian Americans 2019-06-10 07:31:01Penguin Classics adds four books by Asian Americans to the canon

‘Pride and Prejudice,’ eh? What if Jane Austen 2019-06-10 07:31:01‘Pride and Prejudice,’ eh? What if Jane Austen were Muslim Canadian?

It’s information overload with ‘The Ministry of Truth’ 2019-06-10 07:31:01It’s information overload with ‘The Ministry of Truth’

Telling stories that all can enjoy 2019-06-10 07:31:01Children’s books with Muslim characters can help open minds, and provide kids with role models that have stories like theirs.

Fancy a stroll? Great writers extol the pleasures 2019-06-10 07:31:01Classic and contemporary authors wax philosophic on the inspiration they find during a ramble.

Journeys: four audiobooks for summer road trips 2019-06-10 07:31:01Step into one-of-a-kind life journeys in Michelle Obama’s ‘Becoming’ and ‘In the Land of Invisible Women’ by&n

Looking for ‘cozy’ mysteries, without graphic violence? We 2019-06-10 07:31:01 A reader writes: I’m looking for mystery books that do not include graphic violence. I’m a big fan of Louise Penny and Sue Grafton and wo

Unspoken but not forgotten 2019-06-10 07:31:01Unspoken but not forgotten

‘Stony the Road’ lays bare the failure of 2019-06-10 07:31:01Historian and television host Henry Louis Gates Jr. explores the brief flowering of African American leadership after the Civil War.

Stories of D-Day heroism shape history 2019-06-10 07:31:01On the 75th anniversary of World War II’s great amphibious assault, a trio of books provides both broad context and individual voices.

‘The Parisian’ is a slow-burning treat to be 2019-06-10 07:31:01‘The Parisian’ is a slow-burning treat to be savored

How the (North)west was won 2019-06-10 07:31:01How the (North)west was won

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Africa’s Lost Kingdoms 2019-06-09 07:00:46It may remain a little-known fact, but Africa has never lacked civilizations, nor has it ever been as cut off from world events as it has been routine

‘Souvenirs or Landmarks’: The Photographs of Susan Meiselas 2019-06-08 03:00:24Those of us who have experienced war—survivors, soldiers, reporters, aid workers—are haunted by what we cannot unsee. The images recur in

Fighting for Her Life 2019-06-07 08:30:33Andrea Dworkin did not love pornography. I don’t mean this as comic understatement of her well-publicized, steadfast opposition to it and of her

Sierra Leone, 2000: A Case History in Successful 2019-06-07 02:00:26Sierra Leone was a rare case of the “Blair Doctrine” bearing fruit: an overseas military operation not for strategic or commercial interes

Reckless in Riyadh 2019-06-06 07:45:37The recklessness of the Saudi crown prince Mohammad bin Salman has been abetted by the Trump administration, which has boasted of its special relation

‘No Property in Man’: An Exchange 2019-06-06 07:30:41To the Editors: Nicholas Guyatt’s review of my No Property in Man charges that the book isn’t really a work of history at all but, at bott

Another Forgotten Atrocity 2019-06-06 07:30:41To the Editors: In his review of Enrico Deaglio’s A True and Terrible Affair Between Sicily and America, Frank Viviano writes that the 1890 lync

Percy’s Debt to Pepys 2019-06-06 07:30:33To the Editors: Jenny Uglow’s “Big Talkers” describes Thomas Percy as the “first collector of English Ballads.” However,

Query 2019-06-06 07:30:30To the Editors: For a biography of the late American poet Amy Clampitt (1920–1994), I would be grateful to receive reminiscences, anecdotes, or

The Value of a Cell 2019-06-06 07:30:17To the Editors: I am not sure how your reviewer Gavin Francis took away from my book, The Vaccine Race: Science, Politics and the Human Costs of Defea

One Man’s Quest for a Memorial to Sugar 2019-06-04 12:03:57Life in Sugar Land is sweet, particularly for the immigrants who flock to it in search of a fresh start and prosperity. Like much of the Houston metro

How Proslavery Was the Constitution? 2019-06-02 08:00:13Were the Founding Fathers responsible for American slavery? William Lloyd Garrison, the celebrated abolitionist, certainly thought so. In an uncomprom

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A Blitz Of Mother Love In 'Spies Of 2019-06-09 10:00:20How far would you go to get away from your overbearing mother? In Jennifer Ryan's novel, a young woman braves the London Blitz to avoid her mom &mdas

Nicole Dennis-Benn On 'Patsy' 2019-06-09 08:13:00In Nicole Dennis-Benn's new novel Patsy, she explores the demands on one woman who immigrates from Jamaica to New York and leaves her young daughter

Story Of The 1972 Andes Plane Crash In 2019-06-09 08:13:00Eduardo Strauch survived the 1972 Andes plane crash of the Uruguayan rugby team. NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks with him about his story of hope in

In 'Ayesha At Last,' A Take On Austen 2019-06-09 07:00:28There have been an awful lot of South Asian adaptations of Pride and Prejudice recently, but Uzma Jalaluddin's tale of two Toronto Muslims — on

'Magic For Liars' Asks, What If You're Actually 2019-06-08 12:00:18Sarah Gailey's new novel centers on estranged sisters, one magically talented and one just a talented private investigator — who gets called in

Macabre And Irreverent, 'Mostly Dead Things' Is A 2019-06-08 10:02:48Kristin Arnett's new novel follows a woman dealing with the suicide of her father, while running the taxidermy business she inherited from him, getti

Elizabeth Gilbert On 'City Of Girls' 2019-06-08 08:31:00Eat, Pray, Love author Elizabeth Gilbert has a new novel. NPR's Scott Simon talks to the best-selling writer about City of Girls.

Checking Facts In Nonfiction 2019-06-08 08:31:00Authors, not publishers, are responsible for the accuracy of nonfiction books. Every now and then a controversy over a high-profile book provokes disc

'The Sentence Is Death' Is A Bracing Addition 2019-06-08 07:00:15Anthony Horowitz's new Inspector Hawthorne mystery is a sometimes too-complex but ultimately fun tale set in and around London's literary scene, wit

Linda Fairstein, Former 'Central Park 5' Prosecutor, Dropped 2019-06-07 17:55:37Fairstein, who oversaw the case against five teens wrongfully convicted of rape, has become a novelist since leaving the courtroom. But a Netflix seri

'I Write To Understand What I Think': A 2019-06-07 16:24:00Elliot Ackerman served five tours in Iraq and Afghanistan. He sees the ongoing conflicts in the Middle East as "all one war" and explains why that'

Barnes & Noble Set To Be Sold To 2019-06-07 14:28:00That price tag includes all of the book megachain's debt. Elliott's acquisition of the largest retail bookseller in the U.S. comes less than a year