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Awards, News & Events

The inaugural Climate Fiction Prize shortlist is announced. The Guardian has coverage.

The Jhalak Prize longlists are announced. Locus has details.

The Vermont Book Awards shortlists are announced.

The Australian Book Industry Awards shortlists are announced, Books+Publishing reports.

Sue Prideaux, winner of the Pol Roger Duff Cooper Prize for her book Wild Thing: A Life of Paul Gauguin (Norton), writes an essay about the artist for The Guardian.

The Virginia Festival of the Book kicks off tomorrow.

Catch up with the latest from Canada Reads here.

Reviews

NYT reviews The Haunting of Room 904 by Erika T. Wurth (Flatiron): “The Haunting of Room 904 is less horror and more urban fantasy in the mold of Buffy the Vampire Slayer or Charmed, where everyone is young and flirty and humor is deployed liberally.”

Washington Post reviews Antisemitism in America: A Warning by Chuck Schumer (Grand Central): “This book comes across as earnest and heartfelt. Reading it, however, made me realize that I didn’t want a warning on antisemitism. I wanted the highest-elected Jewish official in American history to meet a moment that has already arrived.”

Star Tribune reviews Twist by Colum McCann (Random; LJ starred review): “Twist, is a tantalizing if ultimately dissatisfying addition to the discourse in that it’s a pandemic novel that doesn’t really want to discuss the pandemic, preferring to focus more broadly on our era ‘of enormous greed and foolish longing and, in the end, unfathomable isolation.’”

The Guardian reviews Who Is Government?: The Untold Story of Public Service, ed. by Michael Lewis (Riverhead): “This eye-opening, multifaceted ode to public service therefore feels both urgent and moving.”

Briefly Noted

LibraryReads and Library Journal offer read-alikes for Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins (Scholastic), the top holds title of the week. People shares an interview with Collins and USA Today revisits an interview with the author from 2009.

NPR highlights five new books for the week.

OprahDaily shares five books for Women’s History Month.

Vox suggests four portraits of complicated women.

Seattle Times has five titles to help identify birds and plants.

BookRiot highlights banned historical fiction books.

Dennis E. Staples, Passing Through a Prairie Country (Counterpoint), answers 10 questions at Poets & Writers.

People talks with Emily McIntire about her new book, Beneath the Hood (Bloom), and writing process.

Karin Slaughter and Connie Briscoe, authors of Chloe (Amistad), have a conversation about setting, suspense, and moral ambiguity at CrimeReads.

People previews Amanda Knox’s new memoir, Free: My Search for Meaning (Grand Central), due out March 25.

Prolific garden writer D.G. Hessayon has died at the age of 96; NYT has an obituary.

Authors on Air

Jason De León talks with PBS Canvas about his National Book Award–winning Soldiers and Kings: Survival and Hope in the World of Human Smuggling (Viking).

Emma Donoghue discusses her latest novel, The Paris Express (S. & S.: Summit), with NPR’s Morning Edition.

Barbara Pym’s 1952 novel Excellent Women will be adapted for the screen, Deadline reports.

BookRiot shares “8 New Mystery, Thriller, and True Crime Adaptations To Watch in March 2025.”

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