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Awards & Book News

The longlist for the Biographers International Organization’s Plutarch Award is announced.

The longlist for the Carol Shields Prize for Fiction by women and nonbinary writers is announced, People reports.

The finalists for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction are announced.

The shortlist for the Lionel Gelber Prize for books about international affairs is revealed.

Jenni Fagan’s memoir Ootlin wins the Gordon Burn Prize, The Guardian reports.

Page to Screen

March 7

Chaos: The Manson Murders, based on Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties by Tom O’Neill with Dan Piepenbring. Netflix. Reviews | Trailer

In the Lost Lands, based on the short story by George R.R. Martin. Vertical Entertainment. Reviews | Trailer

Mickey 17, based on Mickey7 by Edward Ashton. Warner Bros. Reviews | Trailer

Queen of the Ring, based on The Queen of the Ring: Sex, Muscles, Diamonds, and the Making of an American Legend by Jeff Leen. Sumerian Pictures. Reviews | Trailer

The Rule of Jenny Pen, based on a short story by Owen Marshall. IFC Films. Reviews | Trailer

Silent Zone, based on Welcome to the Silent Zone by Viktor Csák. Saban Films. Reviews | Trailer

Reviews

Washington Post reviews How To End a Story: Collected Diaries, 1978–1998 by Helen Garner (Pantheon): “All the fragments and chunks assemble into a grand mosaic—a portrait of an extraordinary sensibility at work. Here is an artist trying to make sense from the chaos of experience by paying exquisite attention to everything”; Clay: A Human History by Jennifer Lucy Allan (Pegasus): “Clay’s prevalence is one of the problems Clay must contend with; every vase in a museum, every clay shingle on a roof, every pinch pot in an art class could be a potential story to tell. Allan approaches this by going wide, going weird, going personal. She begins by explaining exactly what clay is…. And in what follows, she demonstrates a true curator’s eye for picking unusual, intriguing examples”; and The Antidote by Karen Russell (Knopf; LJ starred review): “Hovering in the atmosphere somewhere between Colson Whitehead’s Underground Railroad and Susanna Clarke’s Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, The Antidote is a historical novel pumped full of just enough magic to make it rise without bursting the bubble of our credulity.”

The Guardian reviews Flesh by David Szalay (Scribner): “In Flesh, Szalay has written a novel about the Big Question: about the numbing strangeness of being alive; about what, if anything, it means to amble through time in a machine made of meat.”

NYT reviews Goddess Complex by Sanjena Sathian (Penguin Pr.; LJ starred review): “Haunting and hilarious, Goddess Complex is at once a satire, a Gothic tale, a novel of ideas, a character study. Like any individual life, the book bristles with possibilities.”

LitHub gathers the best-reviewed books of the week.

Briefly Noted

Abdulrazak Gurnah, author of Theft (Riverhead; LJ starred review), answers NYT’s “By the Book” questionnaire.

NYT talks to The Help author Kathryn Stockett about her forthcoming second novel, The Calamity Club, due out in April 2026 from Spiegel & Grau.

CrimeReads interviews Agustina Bazterrica, author of The Unworthy, tr. by Sarah Moses (Scribner; LJ starred review).

“If you only read one book this year…make it this one”: The Guardian shares single recommendations from authors, critics, and booksellers.

NYT offers “6 New Books We Recommend This Week.”

Kirkus recommends “5 Novels by Women You Need To Read Immediately.”

CrimeReads gathers “10 Romantic Thrillers To While Away the Long Hours.”

LitHub shares “Seven Novels That Explore Friendship In All Its Messy, Complex Beauty.”

Reactor rounds up all the new horror, romantasy, and other SFF crossover books arriving in March 2025.

LitHub begins its “Best Villains in Literature” bracket.

NYT looks at anachronisms and accuracy in novels about historical figures.

Authors on Air

Karen Weingarten, editor of Abortion Stories: American Literature Before Roe v. Wade (Penguin Classics; LJ starred review), talks to LitHub’s Fiction/Non/Fiction podcast.

NPR’s Wild Card speaks with Zadie Smith, author of The Fraud (Penguin Pr.; an LJ Best Book).

Beyond the Page: The Best of the Sun Valley Writers’ Conference podcast shares an interview with Dennis Lehane, author of Small Mercies (Harper; an LJ Best Book).

GMA interviews Tyler Merritt, author of This Changes Everything: A Surprisingly Funny Story About Race, Cancer, Faith, and Other Things We Don’t Talk About (Worthy).

Avan Jogia, author of Autopsy (of an Ex-Teen Heartthrob): (poems of rage, love, sex, and sadness) (Gallery), visits the Drew Barrymore Show.

The Jennifer Hudson Show hosts Nicole Avant, author of Think You’ll Be Happy: Moving Through Grief with Grit, Grace, and Gratitude (HarperOne).

Shelf Awareness rounds up the schedule for this weekend’s Book TV on C-SPAN 2.

Rachel Weisz will star in a Netflix series adaptation of Julia May Jonas’s novel Vladimir (Avid Reader/S. & S.), Kirkus reports.

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