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Spotlight on Six Contemporary Chinese Fiction Writers
This is a powerful moment in Chinese literature: Contemporary writers are wrestling with the complex legacies of China’s past and its changing present. To show the breadth of contemporary Chinese fiction, we’ve selected six authors to profile
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Home Away from Home with Nicole Krauss
The author's fourth novel, 'Forest Dark,' tackles questions of faith, identity, and anxiety in a city rich in all three: Tel Aviv.
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Helen Benedict, Scribe of Women and War
'Wolf Season,' the second book in Benedict’s Iraq War trilogy, traces the effects of the war on three women in upstate New York.
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Space Man Scott Kelly Enters Book World Orbit
In his memoir, 'Endurance,' the astronaut describes the complexities of living in space for a year.
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The Day the Dead Come Back: Mike McCormack
The narrator of Mike McCormack's new novel, 'Solar Bones,' returns from the grave on All Souls' Day to tell his story.
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Spotlight on Julie Lythcott-Haims
In her searing memoir, 'Real American,' Lythcott-Haims, the child of a black man and a white woman, reckons with mixed-race identity and America's black-and-white view of its citizens (Sponsored)
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In My Own Words: The Emotional Fallout from War
In 'Shooting Ghosts,' photographer Finbarr O’Reilly and his coauthor, retired Marine Sgt. Thomas J. Brennan, explore how combat affects lives on and off the battlefield.
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How My Experiences as a Psychotherapist Helped My Writing Career
A.F. Brady's debut novel, 'The Blind,' echoes her real life experience working in the mental health field across New York City.
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A Life-Changing Trauma: PW Talks with Winnie M. Li
For her first novel, 'Dark Chapter' (Polis, Sept.), Li draws on her own experience as a victim of sexual violence.
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Attica Locke on Murder and Race in East Texas
Attica Locke’s fourth mystery, 'Bluebird, Bluebird' (Little Brown, Sept.), introduces black Texas Ranger Darren Mathews as he investigates a murder in a small east Texas town.
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Writers to Watch Fall 2017: Anticipated Debuts
The big debut fiction of the season.
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Gordon Lish Is Still Vibrant After All These Years
The writer, editor, and terrifying creative writing teacher with the nickname Captain Fiction, now in his 80s, has published a new collection of autobiographical nonfiction.
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The Trick with Writing Myth Into Thrillers: Marcus Sakey
In Sakey’s supernatural thriller 'The Afterlife' (Thomas & Mercer, July), two FBI agents die and enter a realm where they battle a centuries-old satanic entity.
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Ace Atkins's Southern Discomfort
In his latest Quinn Colson novel, 'The Fallen' (Putnam, July), Ace Atkins takes on bank robbers in Mississippi.
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Spotlight on J.T. Ellison
Without quite leaving the thriller genre behind, Ellison returns with a powerful new standalone novel about the breakdown of a seemingly ideal marriage
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Spotlight on Christopher Meades
Meades, the award-winning Canadian author, makes his U.S. debut with a powerful coming-of-age story set in a fictional polygamous community
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And Then There Was Horowitz
In 'Magpie Murders' (Harper, June), the versatile British author Anthony Horowitz puts a twist on the classic fair-play mystery Agatha Christie perfected.
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Spotlight on Melissa Hill
The bestselling Irish author takes on the vaccine debate in her latest novel (Sponsored)
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Spotlight on Eva Woods
In her U.S. debut, London-based women's fiction writer Woods shows that even in life's darkest times, there are ways to find happiness (Sponsored)
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Percival Everett Works Through Ideas...with Fiction
Percival Everett’s new novel, 'So Much Blue' (Graywolf, June), finds the prolific author penning a protagonist who shares his deep desire for privacy.
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