Like many of you weathering the deep freeze, I’m continuing to spend a lot of time inside reading. Or, you know, watching Heated Rivalry. This week, our news team examines the well-established hockey romance trend and spotlights another series in the genre, Off Campus, which is poised to get its own TV adaptation. Meanwhile, PW’s reviews editors recommend books coming out next week, including a Nordic noir that pairs nicely with the latest from Jo Nesbø, profiled below.
—David Varno
Starred Reviews Releasing Next WeekCheck out all the books to receive starred PW reviews that are hitting shelves next week.
Jo Nesbø Is Coming to AmericaThe Norwegian crime writer has some advice to readers of his first thriller set in the U.S. "I know exactly where I’m taking you," he says. "You just enjoy the ride." more
Writers Talking Writers: Daniyal Mueenuddin on Ivan Turgenev and Claire Messud on Albert CamusThe Pulitzer finalist and the Booker nominee discuss the social and philosophical impact of two classic authors. more
Kiss of Death: PW Talks with Shailee ThompsonA speed dating event becomes a blood bath in the debut author’s horror rom-com hybrid, How to Kill a Guy in Ten Dates (Gallery, Feb.). more
Heated Rivalry Breaks the IceWith the success of the TV adaptation of Rachel Reid’s queer hockey romance, a popular subgenre goes mainstream. more
How It’s Not Her by Mary Kubica Got MadeAn inside look at the publication process for the bestselling author’s latest thriller. more
Empire of Madness: Reimagining Western Mental Health Care for EveryoneBy Khameer Kidia (Crown)
This bold challenge to Western psychiatry argues, among other things, that the system ineffectively attempts to medicate patients out of ailments that are rooted in structural forces like racism and socioeconomic inequality. Kidia’s vision for a new mental healthcare is refreshingly ambitious and thought-provoking, asking big questions about what healthcare aims to fix, the ways it falls short, and how we conceive of mental wellness in relation to individuals and communities. —Miriam Grossman, religion and self-help reviews editor
By Daniel Poppick (Scribner)
Sometimes a poet’s first novel can feel baggy or shapeless, or simply have too many similes. Not so with this one. Like a great poem, Poppick’s hybrid work is an act of concision. Somehow, he manages to make each word count in a narrative where not much happens. It’s about a poet who tries to write and recover a sense of time while reading Proust, after he’s laid off from a soulless copywriting gig. As Poppick writes in an introductory note, “What follows is a work of fiction. But if it makes nothing happen, call it poetry.” —David Varno, literary fiction reviews editor
By Snæbjörn Arngrímsson, trans. by Larissa Kyzer (Pushkin Vertigo)
The Nordic noir formula gets a bitter twist in this tale of a journalist and her romantic partner playing cat-and-mouse on a small chunk of land in a remote Icelandic fjord. Arngrímsson is well-known in Scandinavia as a children's author; one gets the sense he had cathartic fun taking this novel's serpentine plot to particularly perverse places. Readers looking to escape from snow-covered circumstances, beware: this thing will chill you to the bone. —Conner Reed, mystery and memoir reviews editor
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The Invisible Coup: How American Elites and Foreign Powers Use Immigration as a Weapon
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Heated Rivalry: Now Streaming on Crave and HBO Max (First Time Trade)
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