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Awards & Book News

Sergey Radchenko’s To Run the World: The Kremlin’s Cold War Bid for Global Power (Cambridge Univ.; LJ starred review) wins the Lionel Gelber Prize for books about international affairs.

Harriet Baker’s Rural Hours: The Country Lives of Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Townsend Warner and Rosamond Lehmann (Penguin UK) wins the Sunday Times Charlotte Aitken Trust Young Writer of the Year Award, Publishing Perspectives reports.

The shortlist for the Dylan Thomas Prize is announced, The Guardian reports.

LJ announces the keynote speakers for this year’s Day of Dialog, taking place on Apr. 17: R.F. Kuang, author of Katabasis (Harper Voyager); Susan Orlean, author of Joyride: A Memoir (Avid Reader/S. & S.); and Cory Doctorow, author of Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What To Do About It (MCD).

Spotify is expanding its audiobook platform to self-published authors, Publishers Weekly reports.

To address the “broken current landscape” of the open research publishing ecosystem, Cambridge University Press will conduct a community-led review involving researchers, librarians, and publishers, The Bookseller reports.

New Title Bestsellers

Links for the week: NYT Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers | NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Bestsellers | USA Today Bestselling Books

Fiction

Jujutsu Kaisen, Vol. 25 by Gege Akutami (VIZ Media) gets No. 2 on the USA Today Bestselling Books list.

Heat of the Everflame by Penn Cole (Atria) singes No. 4 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers list.

Story of My Life by Lucy Score (Bloom) finds No. 7 on the USA Today Bestselling Books list.

The Gate of the Feral Gods by Matt Dinniman (Ace) opens at No. 9 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers list.

Nonfiction

Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism by Sarah Wynn-Williams (Flatiron) grabs No. 1 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Bestsellers list and No. 5 on the USA Today Bestselling Books list.

The Tell: A Memoir by Amy Griffin (Dial) reaches No. 2 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Bestsellers list.

The Broken Rung: When the Career Ladder Breaks for Women—And How They Can Succeed in Spite of It by Kweilin Ellingrud, Lareina Yee & Maria del Mar Martinez (Harvard Business Review Pr.) climbs to No. 4 on the USA Today Bestselling Books list.

Waiting on the Moon: Artists, Poets, Drifters, Grifters, and Goddesses by Peter Wolf (Little, Brown) drifts to No. 5 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Bestsellers list.

Paper Doll: Notes from a Late Bloomer by Dylan Mulvaney (Abrams) attains No. 6 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Bestsellers list.

The Win-Win Workplace: How Thriving Employees Drive Bottom-Line Success by Angela Jackson (Berrett-Koehler) wins No. 6 on the USA Today Bestselling Books list.

Care and Feeding: A Memoir by Laurie Woolever (Ecco) serves up No. 8 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Bestsellers list.

Any Dumb-Ass Can Do It: Learning Moments from an Everyday CEO of a Multi-Billion-Dollar Company by Garry Ridge & Martha I. Finney (BenBella) snatches No. 10 on the USA Today Bestselling Books list.

Murder the Truth: Fear, the First Amendment, and a Secret Campaign To Protect the Powerful by David Enrich (Mariner) scares up No. 11 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Bestsellers list.

Voice for the Voiceless: Over Seven Decades of Struggle with China for My Land and My People by the Dalai Lama (Morrow) holds No. 14 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Bestsellers list.

Reviews

Washington Post reviews Twist by Colum McCann (Random; LJ starred review): “As usual, McCann is sensitive to the fluid nature of oppression across history and countries. He understands the irony of encircling a continent of poor people with the world’s most advanced technology.”

NYT reviews Unshrunk: A Story of Psychiatric Treatment Resistance by Laura Delano (Viking): “One wonders…whether Delano is looking at the treatment of mental illness, and mental illness itself, through a particular lens, one that can feel reductionist in its own right, even as she accuses American psychiatry of doing the same”; On Breathing: Care in a Time of Catastrophe by Jamieson Webster (Catapult): “Webster’s seriousness of intention is matched by her lightness of touch, prying open spaces that usually feel closed”; Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection by John Green (Crash Course): “Earnest and empathetic, he tells the disease’s story in a way that can feel at times like his series of educational YouTube videos”; and The Maverick’s Museum: Albert Barnes and His American Dream by Blake Gopnik (Ecco): “The glories of [Barnes’s] collection have eclipsed his thinking and writing as a reformer. Gopnik covers it all, in exquisite balance, concluding that Barnes’s ‘gifts to posterity, as a collector and thinker, pretty clearly outweigh his own lifetime’s faults.’”

NPR’s Fresh Air reviews The Antidote by Karen Russell (Knopf; LJ starred review): “In The Antidote, Karen Russell, America’s own Prairie Witch of a writer, exhumes memories out of the collective national unconscious and invites us to see our history in full. There are, alas, no antidotes for history. Our consolations are found in writers like Russell who refract horror and wonder through their own strange looking glass, leaving us energized for that next astounding thing.”

LitHub rounds up the best-reviewed books of the week.

Briefly Noted

NYT talks to comedian Phil Hanley about recording the audiobook of his memoir, Spellbound: My Life as a Dyslexic Wordsmith (Macmillan Audio).

CrimeReads speaks with Elon Green, author of The Man Nobody Killed: Life, Death, and Art in Michael Stewart’s New York (Celadon).

Publishers Weekly’s “Writers Talking Writers” series has Colum McCann, author of Twist (Random; LJ starred review), discussing John Berger, and Torrey Peters, author of Stag Dance: A Novel & Stories (Random), discussing Halldor Laxness.

Nell Zink, author of Sister Europe (Knopf; LJ starred review), answers NYT’s “By the Book” questionnaire.

Silvia Park, author of Luminous (S. & S.; LJ starred review), shares their “Annotated Nightstand” with LitHub.

Publishers Weekly talks to Katie Rose Hejtmanek, author of The Cult of CrossFit: Christianity and the American Exercise Phenomenon (NYU), as well as Cara Meredith, author of Church Camp: Bad Skits, Cry Night, and How White Evangelicalism Betrayed a Generation (Broadleaf).

The Guardian interviews Richard Blair, the only child of George Orwell, about his famous father.

The Guardian explains where to start with the works of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, author of Dream Count (Knopf; LJ starred review).

LitHub shares a short history of short fiction by American women.

Courtney B. Vance will narrate a new audiobook edition of David Levering Lewis’s two-part biography of W.E.B. Du Bois, Kirkus reports; part 1 (Biography of a Race, 1868–1919) is due out from S. & S. Audio on Jun. 17, and part 2 (The Fight for Equality and the American Century, 1919–1963) comes out Sept. 23.

Reactor gathers “Speculative Anthologies That Get Creative with Gender.”

LitHub recommends “Six Immigrant Novels that Employ Unconventional Narrative Structures.”

Publishers Weekly has two religion book lists: “5 New Books [That] Suggest Spiritual Answers for the Undecided” and “8 New Books on the Radical Power of Women’s Faith.”

CrimeReads rounds up mysteries in which architecture plays a key—sometimes misdirecting—role.

Authors on Air

NPR’s Fresh Air talks to journalist Gary Rivlin, author of AI Valley: Microsoft, Google, and the Trillion-Dollar Race To Cash In on Artificial Intelligence (Harper Business). Today, Fresh Air will speak with Andrew Marantz, author of 2019’s Antisocial: Online Extremists, Techno-Utopians, and the Hijacking of the American Conversation (Viking).

Maya Binyam, author of Hangman (Farrar), is interviewed on the Thresholds podcast.

Michael Lewis, editor of Who Is Government?: The Untold Story of Public Service (Riverhead), speaks with ABC News; Kirkus has the video and a summary.

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

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