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The 10 Best Italo Calvino Books
The best of the best from the fantasy, science fiction, and fable writer.
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PW Picks: The Best New Books for the Week of July 22, 2013
This week, how modern crime became modern, David Gilbert's stellar & Sons, and Ben Stroud's stellar Byzantium. Plus: Mr. Darcy's guide to courtship.
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The 10 Best Underdogs in Books
Frodo, Ron Weasley, and Kilgore Trout. Who else makes the list?
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The 10 Best Modernist Books (in English)
The easy way in to some great, challenging books.
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PW Picks: The Best New Books for the Week of July 15, 2013
This week: an author who can do seemingly anything with words, a Florida to Alaska road trip, and David Rakoff's novel in verse. Plus, a $50,000 coat.
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10 Books Based on Other Books
Flaubert, Coetzee, Joyce. Who else took inspiration from earlier books to write their own?
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PW Picks: The Best New Books for the Week of July 8, 2013
This week: postmodernism depuzzled, Freud's mistress, and adventures with a bald cheerleader. Plus: Stephanie Evanovich's debut.
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10 Travel Tips To Keep You From Going Insane at the Airport
Including: don't worry about safety.
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PW Picks: The Best New Books for the Week of July 1, 2013
This week: a bizarre American history story, a must-read graphic novel, and a mouse with a tail shaped like a question mark. Plus: two perfect thrillers for summer.
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10 Children's Books That Never Get Old
Author Curtis Sittenfeld picks the books that she never tires of reading with her kids.
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The Obsessives Who Shaped America
Steve Jobs, Charles Lindbergh, among others, have changed the United States while sweating the small stuff.
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PW Picks: The Best New Books for the Week of June 24, 2013
This week, the worst book ever to take on an airplane, "the skirt amongst men," and why obsessive-compulsives helped build the United States. Plus: Curtis Sittenfeld's latest.
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The Most Beautiful Book of 2013 is 'The Graphic Canon, Volume 3'
If The Graphic Canon, Volume 3 doesn't get you excited, you don't love books.
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The 10 Worst Dads in Books
Humbert Humbert and Titus Andronicus--who else shares a spot on the notorious list?
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PW Picks: The Best New Books for the Week of June 17, 2013
This week, a dark and odd fable, a must-read short story collection, and a YA throwback to the likes of Logan's Run. Plus: Neil Gaiman's latest.
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The Dog That Saved a Nurse's Life
The story of a retired nurse and a little Maltese-poodle mix, rescued from a shelter.
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PW Picks: The Best New Books for the Week of June 10, 2013
This week, creating the solar system from scratch, murder and mayhem in the South, and a death row thriller. Plus: Rebecca Solnit's elegant, meandering essays.
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Why Does Language Always Change?
"Gangnam Style," when Bollywood movies switch to English, and the meaning of "mamihlapinatapei"--what do these things tell us about language?
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PW Picks: The Best New Books for the Week of June 3, 2013
This week: time-traveling serial killers, a nautical Chariots of Fire, and dogs who save lives. Plus: Stephen King's latest.
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The Night Sartre Became Famous
Despite police, heat, and fainting spells, Jean-Paul Sartre delivered a lecture on October 29, 1945 that changed the rest of his life.



