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Awards & Book News

The finalists for the Cundill History Prize are announced.

Winners of the Ned Kelly Award for Australian crime writing (including fiction and true crime) are announced.

The shortlist for the Endeavour Award for SFF by Pacific Northwest authors is announced.

The Garnett Girls by Georgina Moore (Avon) wins an Isle of Wight Book Award, The Bookseller reports.

The winners of the Rhysling Awards for speculative poetry are revealed.

A federal judge has ordered an Arkansas library to stop segregating controversial books into special “social sections,” Publishers Weekly reports.

Page to Screen

October 4

Joker: Folie à Deux, based on associated titles. Warner Bros. Reviews | Trailer

The Radleys, based on the novel by Matt Haig. Lionsgate. Reviews | Trailer

White Bird, based on the graphic novel White Bird: A Wonder Story by R.J. Palacio. Lionsgate. Reviews | Trailer

Reviews

Washington Post reviews The Book of George by Kate Greathead (Holt): “With its ironically canonical title, The Book of George captures the curdled resentment of a generation of young men unwilling or unable to adjust to a long-overdue redistribution of power and opportunity”; and two biographies that “reflect great changes in the writing of Black history”: Night Flyer: Harriet Tubman and the Faith Dreams of a Free People by Tiya Miles (Penguin Pr.) and Nat Turner, Black Prophet: A Visionary History by Anthony E. Kaye with Gregory P. Downs (Farrar).

LA Times reviews A Place Called Yellowstone: The Epic History of the World’s First National Park by Randall K. Wilson (Counterpoint): “By leavening his exposition with individual accounts, Wilson inevitably amplifies the voices of white explorers and settlers who told blood-curdling accounts of encounters with American Indians, portraying them as murderous.... The dearth of Native primary sources, included only in a chapter on bison, creates lacunae where vital histories should be.”

NYT reviews John Lewis: A Life by David Greenberg (S. & S.): “This biography sets a new standard by giving Lewis’s post-civil-rights story the depth of attention it deserves—and showing how our mild-mannered seminarian submerged his pacifist tendencies enough to succeed in the bare-knuckled world of electoral politics”; Henry V: The Astonishing Triumph of England’s Greatest Warrior King by Dan Jones (Viking): “To his credit, Jones does not back away. His narrative of Henry’s life is a chronicle of coldhearted decisions, of sieges and massacres, of close friends executed for their real or perceived disloyalty, of heretics burned at the stake, of a damaged soul incapable of gentleness or love”; and three poetry collections that “tap into a strain of cultural anxiety”: [ominous music intensifying] by Alexandra Teague (Persea), The Murmuring Grief of the Americas by Daniel Borzutzky (Coffee House), and A History of Western Music by August Kleinzahler (Farrar).

Briefly Noted

The Millions interviews Jamie Quatro, author of Two-Step Devil (Grove).

NYT talks to Sophie Kinsella about turning her brain cancer diagnosis into a rom-com, The Burnout (Dial).

Alan Hollinghurst, author of Our Evenings (Random), shares “The Books of My Life” with The Guardian.

Kevin Wilson’s new novel, Run for the Hills, due out June 2025 from Ecco, explains what college basketball, chicken farming, and indie films have in common, People reports.

Vulture selects the best horror books of 2024 so far.

NYT has “8 New Books We Recommend This Week.”

CrimeReads identifies six books about the perils of memory manipulation.

Authors on Air

Ann Patchett stopped by the Today Show to discuss her new children’s book, The Verts: A Story of Introverts and Extroverts (HarperCollins); Kirkus has a summary.

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