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Time to Get Fortified
Whether you’re a fan of The Bear in search of some complementary reading or an activist looking for inspiration—or both, we contain multitudes—our picks this week have got you covered. We also hear from Jess Walter and Jonathan Lethem on the enduring influence of Charles Portis and James Salter.
June 27, 2025
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Check out all the books to receive starred PW reviews that are hitting shelves next week. more
Story Image 5 New Kitchen Memoirs for Fans of The Bear
To celebrate the return of FX's nerve-shredding culinary dramedy, we highlight five books that share its spirit. more
Story Image ‘You Couldn’t Stop Me from Writing This Book’: PW Talks with E. Jean Carroll
The journalist who sued Donald Trump talks about her irreverent memoir, Not My Type, and why she never shies away from a fight. more

Summer Reads 2025
Story Image Writers Talking Writers: Jess Walter on Charles Portis and Jonathan Lethem on James Salter
The National Book Award finalist talks about Portis's appeal as the “patron saint of journalists who become novelists” and the National Book Critics Circle Award winner discusses Salter's “breathtaking painterliness.” more
Story Image Pride Month 2025: To Be Young, Black, Queer, and Falling in Love
Love is in the air, and on the shelves this year, with several new Black queer love stories taking center stage. We spoke with six YA authors whose new novels show how there are no limitations on where Black queer love can blossom. more
Story Image From Second Banana to Dirty Harry: PW Talks with Shawn Levy
In Clint: The Man and the Movies, the film critic digs into the life and times of the legendary Hollywood actor. more

Editors’ Picks
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Access: Inside the Abortion Underground and the Sixty-Year Battle for Reproductive Freedom

By Rebecca Grant (Avid Reader)

This riveting reportage reframes the past 60 years of pro-choice activism as a rebellious underground movement that has taken many inventive, clandestine steps to sidestep anti-abortion regulations. It’s galvanizing, heroic stuff. —Dana Snitzky, history and current affairs reviews editor

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No Lost Causes Club

By Lauren McQuistin (Blackstone)

McQuistin’s perceptive (and wonderfully unprescriptive) addiction recovery guide looks beyond what it means to break a damaging habit to the endlessly complex emotional forces that underpin it. —Miriam Grossman, religion and self-help reviews editor

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I Want to Burn this Place Down

By Maris Kreizman (Ecco)

I started reading this incendiary collection at the beginning of the new Trump term and was galvanized by Kreizman’s dismantling of the meritocracy myth. Now, as the Democratic Party’s gulf widens in the wake of an explosive mayoral primary result in New York City, Kreizman’s fiery and fun essays about her late-blooming leftward turn away from being a “good Democrat” feel even more relevant. —David Varno, literary fiction reviews editor


PW Star Watch 2025
Top 10 Bestsellers
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Caught Up: Into Darkness Trilogy
Navessa Allen, Author
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Carley Fortune, Author
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Freida McFadden, Author
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Taylor Jenkins Reid, Author
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The Robin on the Oak Throne (Deluxe Limited Edition)
K A Linde, Author
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Stephen King, Author
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The First Gentleman: A Thriller
James Patterson, Author, Bill Clinton, Author
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