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The Essential Manga Guide Is for Everyone, Not Just Otaku
Crunchyroll senior features editor Briana Lawrence's 'The Essential Manga Guide: 50 Series Every Manga Fan Should Know' offers a sprawling primer on an ever-expanding art form for longtime fans and newcomers alike.
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For Elif Shafak, Literature Means Freedom
The novel is both a path to freedom and a form of political activism for the Booker Award finalist.
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The Hardest Goodbye
In 'Feeling Your Way Through Grief,' Missy Buchanan writes her way through the pain of loss. (Sponsored)
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Karin Slaughter Won’t Fade to Black
The bestselling author’s unflinching crime novels dare to acknowledge the world as a dangerous place for women.
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Vi Keeland Finally Gets Her Unhappily-Ever-After
Dozens of books into her career, the bestselling romance author is finally publishing the thriller she always wanted to write.
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The Haunting of J. Courtney Sullivan
The bestselling author’s latest novel, 'The Cliffs,' is a ghost story rooted in history.
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Laura van den Berg’s Parallel Lives
In life and in her new novel, 'State of Paradise,' the author isn’t afraid to embrace uncertainty and the unknown.
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Ayşegül Savaş’s Quest for Home
Much like the peripatetic characters in her latest novel, the author understands the importance of finding permanence and a sense of belonging.
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Chris Whitaker’s Survivor Stories
The novelist traded a finance career to pursue fiction. It just may have saved his life.
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Andrew O’Hagan Weaponizes Fiction
For the Scottish novelist and journalist, the novel is a way to fight political misinformation, conspiracy theories, and outright lies.
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Matt Cain Is Breaking the Mold
British journalist Matt Cain returns with a comedy in the vein of 'The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel' about a gay divorcé’s late-in-life drag makeover.
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A Place Where You Want to Be: PW Talks with Emet North
‘In Universes,’ Emet North’s debut novel, explores queer love and the multiverse.
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Rufi Thorpe Goes to the Mat
The author’s latest novel, 'Margo’s Got Money Troubles,' draws inspiration from OnlyFans, Wonder Woman, and World Wrestling Entertainment.
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Porochista Khakpour’s Reality Check
Despite a host of health issues, Porochista Khakpour is back with a new novel—about an Iranian American family looking to land a reality TV show—that’s the exact opposite of what editors wanted her to write.
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For Miranda July, Writing Is a True Calling
In her new novel, 'All Fours,' the multidisciplinary artist grapples with aging as it relates to desire, gender, and marriage.
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Abir Mukherjee Feels Like an Outsider Looking In
For the author of the forthcoming novel 'Hunted,' abandoning a lucrative finance career to write historical mysteries was more than a career change—it was a way to save his soul.
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Cooking the Books with Sara B. Franklin
With ‘The Editor,’ Franklin sets the record straight about the legacy and life of her friend and mentor, Judith Jones.
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Claire Messud Puts Her Soul on the Page
The author’s latest novel, 'This Strange Eventful History' (Norton, May), chronicles three generations of a pied-noir family—and much of her own family history.
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Maurice Vellekoop Comes Out in a Big Way
The veteran comics creator’s first full-length graphic memoir, ‘I’m So Glad We’ve Had This Time Together’ (Pantheon), is a coming-of-age story mixed with a family history so unsparingly honest that his mother dreaded its publication.
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Erik Larson Is Confronting History’s Demons
The bestselling author’s latest, ‘The Demon of Unrest,’ documents the tense five-month period leading up to the Civil War.



