Time, Space, and Other Problems: PW Talks with James Kelman
In Mo Said She Was Quirky, James Kelman enters the consciousness of a London blackjack croupier. more...
A Transformed World: PW Talks With Kate Bornstein
Performance artist, writer, and theorist Bornstein’s My New Gender Workbook is an updated version of her innovative and influential 1997 text. more...
Feeling the Burn: PW Talks with Christine Montross
In Falling into the Fire: A Psychiatrist’s Encounters with the Mind in Crisis, clinical psychiatrist Christine Montross discusses the professional, ethical, and moral difficulties of treating troubled patients. more...cookbooks and more. Sign up here!
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InterviewsA Better Day: PW Talks with Taylor Jenkins Reid
In Forever, Interrupted, nine days after Elsie and Ben elope, he dies in a car accident. Debut author Taylor Jenkins Reid skillfully traces the couple’s six-month courtship throughout the book.
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Interviews
Circuitous About Sex: PW Talks with Ashley Cardiff
In her memoir, Night Terrors: Sex, Dating, Puberty, and Other Alarming Things, Ashley Cardiff dishes on sexuality and growing up in an age of anxiety.
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Interviews
Voices of Dissent: PW Talks with Karima Bennoune
Human-rights lawyer, activist, and U.C. Davis professor Karima Bennoune channels the diverse artists and human-rights workers resisting extremism in Muslim-majority countries in Your Fatwa Does Not Apply Here.
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Profiles
Rebel With a Cause: Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
“It’s all right; I’m a Unitarian,” says Elizabeth Marshall Thomas as we settle into chairs in front of the altar of the Unitarian Universalist First Parish Church in Cambridge, Mass., to talk.
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Obituaries
Bernard Waber, 1921-2013
Bernard Waber, creator of much-loved picture books about Lyle the crocodile and other anthropomorphic animals, died on May 16 after a long illness. He was 91.
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Interviews
Shooting the Sh*t: PW Talks With David Waltner-Toews
Veterinarian and epidemiologist Waltner-Toews’s The Origin of Feces is a comprehensive look at the social and ecological history of excrement, and global problems we face today.
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Interviews
Organic Food Nation: PW Talks with Forrest Pritchard
In Gaining Ground, Forrest Pritchard recounts his against-all-odds story of taking his struggling family livestock farm into the growing organic farmers’ market movement in ways that will make you reconsider how and where you purchase your food.
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Interviews
Q & A with Cecil Castellucci and Sara Varon
PW spoke with illustrator Sara Varon and writer Castellucci to hear about how two self-proclaimed odd ducks combined forces to create Odd Duck, an unconventional – and very funny – book.
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Obituaries
Obituary: Milane Christiansen, 70
Milane Christiansen, who founded and ran the Book Works in Del Mar, Calif. for 30 years,died April 21 from complications of ALS.
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Interviews
Conspiring with the Enemy: PW Talks With Arturo Fontaine
