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Awards & News

Ayelet Tsabari wins the Association of Jewish Libraries Jewish Fiction Award for her novel Songs for the Brokenhearted (Random).

Former New Zealand prime minister Jacinda Ardern announced her forthcoming memoir, A Different Kind of Power (Crown), due out June 3, AP reports. The Guardian also has coverage.

Vanessa Bryant announced the forthcoming book Mamba & Mambacita Forever (MCD), due out August 16, People reports.

Penguin Random House has acquired Australia’s Text Publishing, The Bookseller reports. 

Books Inc. files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, San Francisco Chronicle reports.

Reviews

Washington Post reviews Tartufo by Kira Jane Buxton (Grand Central): “Wildly affected, comically ornate and unapologetically silly, Tartufo whips up a story like a master chef: The kitchen might be a mess and much is wasted along the way, but the results are delicious”; and The Sun Won’t Come Out Tomorrow: The Dark History of American Orphanhood by Kristen Martin (Bold Type): “Martin’s book contributes to a cultural understanding in which orphanhood is neither manufactured, nor idealized, nor divorced from its dark history.”

NYT reviews Everything Must Go: The Stories We Tell About the End of the World by Dorian Lynskey (Pantheon): “The more we know about the world, the more we know about the myriad threats that might do it in. Lynskey moves smoothly from apocalyptic tales about comets and asteroids to killer robots and infected zombies.”

Slate reviews We Do Not Part by Han Kang, tr. by e. yaewon & Paige Aniyah Morris (Hogarth; LJ starred review): “We Do Not Part is also a novel of snow. Peculiar as it may sound, the frozen vapor commands much of Han’s attention and inspires some of her loveliest writing.”

Briefly Noted

LibraryReads and Library Journal offer read alikes for Onyx Storm by Rebecca Yarros (Entangled: Red Tower), the top holds title of the week. Good Housekeeping explains “Why Onyx Storm is THE book to read right now.” USA Today discusses spoilers. T&C shares “22 Books to Read After Finishing Fourth Wing”  and previews a Fourth Wing TV show. Yarros discusses the adaptation on GMA. Plus, Elle has a guide to Rebecca Yarros’s books.

NYT suggests 10 winter reads. 

Esquire has “The 20 Most Anticipated Books of 2025.”

Reactor previews 30 SFF reads for 2025. 

BookRiot recommends short books for 2025.

CrimeReads highlights “25 Horror Novels to Look Out For in 2025.”

Askia Ba, The Choreic Period: Poems (Milkweed Editions), answers 10 questions at Poets & Writers.

NYT profiles Nobel laureate Han Kang and her latest book, We Do Not Part, tr. by e. yaewon & Paige Aniyah Morris (Hogarth; LJ starred review). 

Entertainment Weekly recounts details from Rick Astley’s Never: The Autobiography (Macmillan). Astley talks with People about the new memoir. 

LA Times has an interview with Neko Case about her new memoir, The Harder I Fight the More I Love You (Grand Central).

Keeonna Harris talks with LA Times about her new memoir, Mainline Mama (Amistad), and raising children with her incarcerated husband.

Lola Kirke writes about her new memoir, Wild West Village: Not a Memoir (Unless I Win an Oscar, Die Tragically, or Score a Country #1) (S. & S.), at Vogue. 

Slate talks with Yael van der Wouden about her novel, The Safekeep (Avid Reader/S. & S.). 

Pulitzer Prize–winning cartoonist and playwright Jules Feiffer dies at the age of 95. NYT has an obituary. NPR remembers his life and work, as does The Guardian. 

Authors on Air

Anne Allan’s royal biography Dancing with Diana (Sutherland) will become a feature documentary. Hollywood Reporter has details. 

John Ridley is developing Isaac Asimov’s The Caves of Steel (Spectra) as a feature film. Deadline has the story. 

NYT previews books that are being adapted into movies and TV shows in 2025.

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