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Awards & News

The winners of the Windham-Campbell Prize are announced. The Guardian has coverage.

PEN America announces the longlists for its Literary Awards. Publishers Lunch reports that longlisted authors Kaveh Akbar and Brandon Shimoda have withdrawn their books from consideration.

NYT reports on ways that library advocates are rallying to the defense of the Institute of Museum and Library Services.

Reviews

NYT reviews Class Matters: The Fight To Get Beyond Race Preferences, Reduce Inequality, and Build Real Diversity at America’s Colleges by Richard D. Kahlenberg (Public Affairs): “Kahlenberg aims to instruct rather than delight. But if you want to read a serious, measured and fair-minded argument for one side of our all-too-bitter debate over race and class, this is the one for you”; The Unwanted by Boris Fishman (Harper): “The Unwanted is careful to be nuanced and ethically complex, to avoid the well-worn tropes of victimhood and challenge readers’ perceptions of refugees”; Ghosts of Iron Mountain: The Hoax of the Century, Its Enduring Impact, and What It Reveals About America Today by Phil Tinline (Scribner): “His fast-paced account is often entertaining but never loses sight of where it is heading: toward a moment, our own, when conspiracists and crackpots have seized the levers of power”; and Story of a Murder: The Wives, the Mistress, and Dr. Crippen by Hallie Rubenhold (Dutton): “Story of a Murder is essential reading for anyone who may believe the past was a gentler, romantic time for women.”

Washington Post reviews Yoko: A Biography by David Sheff (S. & S.): “The strength of Sheff’s book is simple journalism, connecting the dots that existed only vaguely before Yoko”; The Lost Trees of Willow Avenue: A Story of Climate and Hope on One American Street by Mike Tidwell (St. Martin’s): “Tidwell stands alongside many other trumpet-playing angels of the apocalypse—Rachel Carson, James Hansen, Jane Goodall, Bill McKibben and Elizabeth Kolbert, to name a few—in the ongoing fight to save our planet”; and Sister Europe by Nell Zink (Knopf; LJ starred review): “Sister Europe may turn off readers allergic to disagreeable characters. Certainly, the real world is shoveling enough of those at us. Yet for all the novel’s outrageous dialogue and tense interactions, it’s the work of an author with a fiercely original and empathetic voice. One leaves the book wanting more of it.”

Briefly Noted

LitHub highlights 24 new books for the week.

NPR suggests new books this week.

Vogue shares the best books of 2025 so far.

USA Today shares “11 books to read for the Trans Rights Readathon.”

People recommends 10 destination romances for spring break.

Reactor looks at “Five Fictional Investigators With Special Abilities” and “Five SFF Stories About Underground Resistance Movements.”

Krysten Ritter talks with LA Times about the inspiration for her new novel, Retreat (Harper).

The Jonas Brothers ask fans for patience regarding the release of their previously announced forthcoming memoir, People reports.

In CrimeReads, James Whitfield Thomson writes about his decades-long search for answers culminating in the book, A Better Ending: A Brother’s Twenty-Year Quest To Uncover the Truth About His Sister’s Death (Avid Reader/S. & S.).

People previews and shares the cover of the forthcoming book No Lessons Learned: The Making of Curb Your Enthusiasm as Told by Larry David and the Cast and Crew by Lorraine Ali (Black Dog & Levinthal), due out October 21.

Entertainment Weekly highlights details from actor Michael Caine’s new memoir, Don’t Look Back, You’ll Trip Over: My Guide to Life (Mobius).

People shares an excerpt from Maria Shriver’s forthcoming book, I Am Maria: My Reflections and Poems on Heartbreak, Healing, and Finding Your Way Home (The Open Field), due out next week.

T&C suggests books for fans of Netflix’s The Residence, inspired by The Residence: Inside the Private World of the White House by Kate Andersen Brower.

Authors on Air

Legal scholar Elie Mystal discusses his new book, Bad Law: Ten Popular Laws That Are Ruining America (New Pr.), with NPR’s Fresh Air.

Harlan Coben tells Hollywood Reporter that his new book, Nobody’s Fool (Grand Central), is more of a sequel to Netflix’s Fool Me Once series, rather than his novel it was based on.

Jonathan Swift’s satirical adventure Gulliver’s Travels will be adapted as a TV series, Variety reports.

Michael Symon, Symon’s Dinners Cooking Out: 100 Recipes That Redefine Outdoor Cooking (Clarkson Potter), and Amanda Knox, Free: My Search for Meaning (Grand Central), visit GMA today.

Diane Morrisey, author of You Got This!: Recipes Anyone Can Make and Everyone Will Love (Simon Elemen; LJ starred review), appears on Today.

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