5 Books Making News This Week: Collections, Translation, and Noir

5 Books Making News This Week: Collections, Translation, and Noir

Susan Sontag, Nicola Pugliese, Liska Jacobs, and More

By Jane Ciabattari | November 21, 2017

A Night at the National Book Awards

A Night at the National Book Awards

Surviving by poetry, reading for all, and love for assistants

By Kyle Lucia Wu | November 17, 2017

David France Has Won the 2017 Baillie Gifford Prize for Nonfiction

David France Has Won the 2017 Baillie Gifford Prize for Nonfiction

For How to Survive a Plague, a history of activists vs. the AIDS epidemic

By Emily Temple | November 16, 2017

The 2017 National Book Award Winners Announced

The 2017 National Book Award Winners Announced

In Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry and Young People's Literature

By Emily Temple | November 16, 2017

Against Amazon: Seven Arguments, One Manifesto

Against Amazon: Seven Arguments, One Manifesto

"Amazon appropriated our books. We will appropriate Amazon logic."

By Jorge Carrión | November 15, 2017

Documenting a Legendary Publisher's Final Project

Documenting a Legendary Publisher's Final Project

Uncovering the Story of Barney Rosset Through Friends, Family, and a Shaman

By Sandy Gotham Meehan | November 15, 2017

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • Joyride: A Memoir
  • A Guardian and a Thief
  • Minor Black Figures
  • True Nature: The Pilgrimage of Peter Matthiessen
  • The Wayfinder
  • Unabridged: The Thrill of (and Threat To) the Modern Dictionary

Meet Baillie Gifford Prize Finalist Simon Schama

By Emily Temple | November 15, 2017

Meet Baillie Gifford Prize Finalist Daniel Mendelsohn

By Emily Temple | November 14, 2017

Meet Baillie Gifford Prize Finalist David France

By Emily Temple | November 14, 2017

Bookselling After the Fires: Napa Needs You

Bookselling After the Fires: Napa Needs You

Elayna Trucker on the Aftermath of a Disaster

By Elayna Trucker | November 13, 2017

Meet Baillie Gifford Prize Finalist Kapka Kassabova

Meet Baillie Gifford Prize Finalist Kapka Kassabova

The author of Border on art as social change

By Emily Temple | November 13, 2017

Meet Baillie Gifford Prize Finalist Mark O’Connell

Meet Baillie Gifford Prize Finalist Mark O’Connell

The author of To Be A Machine on learning to write like himself

By Emily Temple | November 13, 2017

Meet National Book Award Finalist Jesmyn Ward

Meet National Book Award Finalist Jesmyn Ward

The author of Sing, Unburied, Sing on Prince, Faulkner, and writing exercises

By Emily Temple | November 9, 2017

On the Vital Importance of Nonfiction in the Age of

On the Vital Importance of Nonfiction in the Age of "Fake" News

The Baillie Gifford Prize: Making a Name for Itself on Both Sides of the Atlantic

By Matt Grant | November 9, 2017

Meet National Book Award Finalist Carmen Maria Machado

Meet National Book Award Finalist Carmen Maria Machado

The author of Her Body and Other Parties tells us about her favorite stories

By Emily Temple | November 9, 2017

Meet National Book Award Finalist Min Jin Lee

Meet National Book Award Finalist Min Jin Lee

The author of Pachinko on the long road to her latest novel

By Emily Temple | November 8, 2017

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