2+ day, 14+ hour ago  (38+ words) Publishers Weekly The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State Jill Lepore. Liveright, $29. 99 (320p) ISBN 978-1-324-09842-3 More By and About this Authorchevron_right...

2+ day, 8+ hour ago  (124+ words) Publishers Weekly In this week's edition of Endnotes, we take a look at Kelly Mc Williams' No One Leaves the Manor, a YA horror novel set in 1921, where four debutantes compete for an oil heiress's fortune at a sentient mansion,…...

2+ day, 8+ hour ago  (618+ words) Publishers Weekly's sixth annual U. S. Book Show convenes in New York City next month with a program of 19 panels, workshops, and talks addressing the most consequential challenges facing the trade. This year's edition is also the most ambitious yet, with some…...

2+ day, 16+ hour ago  (33+ words) Publishers Weekly Ellery Lloyd. Harper, $30 (320p) ISBN 978-0-06-332305-6 Compact Disc - 979-8-228-97638-2 MP3 CD - 979-8-228-97637-5...

2+ day, 9+ hour ago  (643+ words) For a chaotic 18-month period in the 1980s, Irvine Welsh was addicted to heroin'an experience that ultimately put him on the path to becoming a writer. At the time, the Scottish author was in his early 20s, living in London, playing in…...

2+ day, 9+ hour ago  (560+ words) Titles are listed in chronological order of publication year. Bolded text indicates a top four pick. Not only has Captain Ahab's elusive white whale become one of the most recognizable metaphors in all of literature, it's also a way to…...

2+ day, 9+ hour ago  (564+ words) Independence Day 2026 will be more than just another Fourth of July, says Princeton University professor Eddie S. Glaude Jr. the landmark anniversary is a chance for meaningful reflection. Every year, "the country has to tell a story about itself, one that's…...

2+ day, 10+ hour ago  (64+ words) Science should embrace uncertainty, not seek definitive answers to problems, the Columbia neuroscience professor contends in It Could Be Otherwise. You say this is a book about optimism. How so? How do you distinguish healthy scientific skepticism from the cynicism…...

2+ day, 11+ hour ago  (360+ words) Publishers Weekly This Week's Bestsellers: May 18, 2026 Seventeen years after the publication of Kathryn Stockett's blockbuster The Help, the novelist returns with The Calamity Club. It was the bestselling title in the East South Central region, which includes Mississippi, the setting…...

2+ day, 12+ hour ago  (388+ words) Publishers Weekly USBS 2026: PW Talks with Laura Mc Grath In Middlemen: Literary Agents and the Making of American Fiction, the literary historian and data scientist argues that the partnerships between agents and authors'Paul Revere Reynolds and F. Scott Fitzgerald, Sterling Lord…...