The Parent Trap

The Wall Street Journal's provocative January 8 headline alone—"Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior"—would have been enough to spark intense discussion. But coupled with a no-nonsense-tolerated excerpt from Amy Chua's parenting memoir, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother (Penguin Press, Jan.), that sharply contrasts so-called "Eastern" and "Western" styles of parenting, what resulted was nothing less than a firestorm.

Why I Write: Rick Steves

We all have pastimes. I don't knit or follow sports. I don't do crossword puzzles. I can't play cribbage. But I do write. I journal (just for myself) when I'm going through tough personal times.

Three Questions for Paul Theroux

In The Tao of Travel: Enlightenments from Lives on the Road (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), prolific travel writer Paul Theroux collects insights from other writers, sources he deems "real and reliable travelers—not the sort who boast about their sunny experience in Happyland." We spoke with Theroux about his new book.

Digitizing the World

Travel guides: the canaries in the digital coal mine. While no category of print books is immune to the changes wrought by growth in e-books and apps, books on travel—with their need for constant updating—lend themselves especially well to digital media.

Ten Travel Treats

The travel category does not lack for quirkiness. Here are our picks for the 10 most intriguing forthcoming travel books.

The State of (Fair) Play

A cryptic, taunting criminal tells his targets exactly the number they are thinking of, even though they selected the digits randomly. A murderer walks away from a bloody corpse, leaving tracks in the snow that just end, leaving no evidence of how the killer escaped from the scene.

The Civil War at 150

The Civil War is a perennial staple for publishers of war and military titles and, with the 150th anniversary of the start of that war occurring in April, publishers are gearing up to offer even more books on the topic.

Spring Audio in Bloom

The first wave of spring audio releases is out of the gate, with much more to follow in time for the road trips and vacation listening of the season. We’ve pulled together some highlights of the newest offerings and crafted a list that provides a taste of the variety of titles available.

'PW' Spring Announcements Go Live

The aggregation of more than 6,000 spring book listings submitted by publishers to PW via Above the Treeline’s Edelweiss tool is now live. The PW January 24 print issue contains selected highlights of the season, but the full season is now viewable and browsable online at http://announcements.publishersweekly.com/.

Hello, Spring: Spring 2011 Adult Announcements

With much of the country in the grip of cold and wintry weather, we nonetheless present to readers our annual overview of the spring season, a harbinger of good books, and warmer days, to come.

New Politics: Political Books for 2011

Democrats received a mighty "shellacking"—in President Obama's words—in the 2010 midterm election. The Republican Party gained 680 seats in state legislative races and retook control of the House, gaining a net 63 seats from Democrats. Pelosi's out as Speaker, Boehner's in, and 138 members of Congress rode to victory with Tea Party support.

Going for Broke

The names Gordon Murray and Dan Goldie probably wouldn't have rung a bell for many people outside the world of Wall Street until a few weeks ago—November 27, to be exact. That Saturday the New York Times's Your Money column by Ron Lieber told the story of a recent book on investment under the headline "A Dying Banker's Last Instructions."

AFRICAN-AMERICAN INTEREST ADULT TITLES 2010

The following is a list of African-American interest adult books, fiction and nonfiction, publishing between September 2010 and March 2011.

Notable African American Titles

African-American Publishing in the Digital Era

Many publishers are still trying to understand what impact the rapid growth of digital technology will have on the industry and their businesses. Publishers of titles aimed at the African-American market are no different.

Three Questions for Cynthia Sass

We spoke with the coauthor of the Flat Belly Diet¸ whose Cinch: Conquer Cravings, Drop Pounds, and Lose Inches is due January 1 from HarperOne.

Abs-solutely Fit

For many, a slim, strong, healthy body—and the ability to maintain it—is the holy grail. And with Thanksgiving stuffing just past and New Year's resolutions on the horizon, publishers are banking on this interest.

It's Easy Being Green

A sampling of recent New York Times headlines turns up articles on nail salons and toxic chemicals, melting glaciers, South Korea's "green growth" plans, the cost of renewable energy, and even questions about whether reusable grocery bags are environmentally sound. It's no wonder green topics are ubiquitous in publishing.

The Scandinavian Invasion

"Alas," this very magazine lamented back in 2002, "Scandinavian dreariness just doesn't seem to have broad appeal to American readers." The review referred not to Stieg Larsson's tattooed hacker, Lisbeth Salander—who wouldn't explode onto the scene for another six years—but to the work of another Swede, Henning Mankell, and his series featuring Det. Insp. Kurt Wallander.

Turning a Genre into a Community

Once a woman starts writing romance novels, she doesn't tend to stop. Numerous authors have careers spanning decades, serving as mentors and inspiration to younger writers, and defining the romance genre both in response to and in defiance of trends in the outside world. Their new releases and backlist titles alike gather tremendous and loyal followings.