As I’ve reported now and then, the magazine
Publishers Weekly
has been indispensable to me for decades, even as the book-world and the magazine-world (and
PW
in particular) have changed dramatically. Every week I go through
PW
’s brief reviews of fiction and nonfiction (not to mention the special issues with forecasts for the upcoming season; those are much slimmer than they used to be, but still valuable). Apart from alerting me to specific titles, the reviews in
PW
also serve as reports on “the culture” from one influential angle.