Publishers Weekly

The National Book Award winner remembers drinking with John Berger and the PEN/Hemingway Award winner recounts the joys of reading Halldor Laxness.

While most stores in the National Capital Region are still reporting steady sales, booksellers say the impact of the layoffs of federal workers who live and work in the area are beginning to affect their businesses.

Religion publishers are offering women authors’ fresh interpretations of sacred texts as well as stories from the lives of Buddhists, Christians, Jews, and Muslims.

Paralyzing indecision is a defining feature of modern life—but these forthcoming books from Christian authors promise help at the crossroads.

Among this week’s deals are a study of primarily white U.S. churches, an exploration of spiritual questions about illness and dying informed by medical research, and a guide for doubters on how to reclaim faith.

The anthropologist and professor at Brooklyn College discusses fitness, salvation, and her new book The Cult of CrossFit: Christianity and the American Exercise Phenomenon.

We spoke with the author and former Christian camp true believer about her forthcoming book Church Camp: Bad Skits, Cry Night, and How White Evangelicalism Betrayed a Generation (Broadleaf, Apr.).

The academic and educational publishing giant released its first annual report since going public last fall, showing strong results driven by its research segment.

The streaming giant tripled its catalog growth over the past year, and its new short-form audiobook publishing program is now courting self-published genre fiction authors.

The environment at this year’s bustling Society of Illustrators’ Museum of Comics and Cartoon Arts Festival felt celebratory and welcoming in spite of the looming shadow of increasingly fraught global politics.

The ALA, EveryLibrary, and other organizations and individuals have rushed to defend the IMLS against the Trump Administration’s ongoing efforts to eliminate the agency, which plays a key role in distributing congressionally approved funds to libraries, museums, and archives across the country.

The ALA, EveryLibrary, and other organizations and individuals have rushed to defend the IMLS against the Trump Administration’s ongoing efforts to eliminate the agency, which plays a key role in distributing congressionally approved funds to libraries, museums, and archives across the country.

The Association of American Publishers has issued a response to the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy's request for information regarding AI regulation, emphasizing the critical role of copyright protections in maintaining American leadership in AI markets.

The free expression organization’s tentpole spring events were canceled last year after a number of authors withdrew in protest of PEN’s response to the war in Gaza.

Oathbound, the third book in Tracy Deonn’s Legendborn Cycle, lands at #2 on our children’s fiction list. Plus the March Reese’s Book Club pick, Broken Country by Clare Leslie Hall, debuts at #3 on our hardcover fiction list, and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie returns to fiction after more than a decade with Dream Count.

Montagne, who previously served as associate publisher, joined ComicArts when it was established in 2023. In his new role, he'll focus on growing the division's presence in the graphic novel, manga, and comic book market.

In a presentation at the London Book Fair, a BookScan analyst said that many of the trends that led to a small sales increase in 2024—including BookTok and Bibles—remain in place in 2025. Also among those factors is the idea of "bibliotherapy," the use of literature to help people improve their overall health or wellbeing.

Union employees at Greenlight Bookstore in Brooklyn have ratified a new contract that guarantees annual pay raises and provides more benefits that are designed to reduce turnover and reward skills developed on the job.

An inside look at the publication process for the author’s debut novel.

The Baltic republic is serving as Guest of Honor at the 2025 Bologna Children’s Book Fair, marking its first time in this prominent role at the world’s largest children’s publishing event.