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Awards & News 

George Chauncey wins the John W. Kluge Prize for Achievement in the Study of Humanity, according to Lit Hub.

Clare Jackson wins the 2022 Wolfson History Prize for Devil-Land: England Under Siege 1588-1688 (Allen Lane).

The 2022 Miles Franklin Literary Award shortlist is announced.

The 2022 Ignotus Awards finalists are announced.

Electric Lit announces Both/And, a limited essay series featuring “trans and gender nonconforming writers of color.”

The New York Times Magazine writes about “the push to diversify the book business.”

The latest NPD BookScan data shows that the U.S. book market has returned to weekly volume “in line with 2020 patterns.”

New Title Bestsellers

Links for the week: NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers | NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers | USA Today Best-Selling Books

Fiction

The Hotel Nantucket by Elin Hilderbrand (Little, Brown) opens at No. 1 on both the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers list and the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

Horse by Geraldine Brooks (Viking; LJ starred review) gallops to No. 3 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers list.

Nonfiction

Battle for the American Mind: Uprooting a Century of Miseducation by Pete Hegseth and David Goodwin (Broadside) starts at No. 1 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers list and No. 2 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

I'd Like to Play Alone, Please by Tom Segura (Grand Central) scores No. 2 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers list and No. 14 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

Rough Draft by Katy Tur (One Signal) debuts at No. 8 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers list.

How to Raise an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi (One World) grows to No. 9 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers list.

The End of the World is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization by Peter Zeihan (Harper Business) starts at No. 12 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers list.

Reviews

NYT reviews An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us by Ed Yong (Random): “funny and elegantly written, mercifully restrained when it comes to jargon, though he does introduce a helpful German word that he uses throughout: Umwelt. It means “environment,” but a little more than a century ago the Baltic German zoologist Jakob von Uexküll used it to refer more specifically to that sensory bubble — an animal’s perceptual world.” Also, The Brain in Search of Itself: Santiago Ramón y Cajal and the Story of the Neuron by Benjamin Ehrlich (Farrar): "Ehrlich goes to great lengths to give a full and exacting portrait of a fascinating scientist, and while he delivers thought-provoking metaphors, unforgettable scenes and many beautifully worded phrases, to find these pearls one must also endure the rigors of academia and of strict biography, which seemingly dictate that we must follow a person from birth all the way to death."

The Washington Post reviews Invisible Things by Mat Johnson (One World): “affectionate, intertextual construct, one that draws on half the tropes of modern sf. Still, awareness of echoes and borrowings merely enriches an already exciting story.”

Locus Magazine reviews Aspects by John M. Ford (Tor: Macmillan): “satisfying in that the finished sections do feel so finished – verbally adept, deeply considered, deeply felt, inviting not only horizontal but vertical reading – less the headlong suspense of a tightly-plotted page-turner than an invitation to consider everything presented on any given page and how it fits with what has been presented previously.”

Lit Hub lists "5 Reviews You Need to Read This Week."

Briefly Noted

Patrick Radden Keefe, author of Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks (Doubleday), talks to The Los Angeles Times in an interview about how “truth is always stranger than fiction.” Keefe also answers the NYT's By the Book questionnaire.

Entertainment Weekly speaks with Monica Heisey, a writer for Schitt’s Creek, about her debut novel, Really Good, Actually (Morrow), and “how heartbreak can be hilarious.” Also, there is an excerpt.

Lit Hub features a conversation between Rebecca Solnit and Margaret Atwood on “celebrating 40 years of Orion Magazine.” Also, Jessica Campbell, Rave (Drawn and Quarterly), and Nicole Georges, Fetch (Harper Perennial) speak to each other about "the risks of telling stories informed by truth, the grueling process of editing comics, and their respective relationships with their tumultuous religious backgrounds."

Lidia Yuknavitich discusses her book Thrust (Riverhead) and the allowance for a person to retell their own stories with NYT. 

Tor.com shares an excerpt of Dark Earth by Rebecca Stott (Random).

Lars Kepler, “the pen name of a husband-and-wife crime fiction-writing team,” makes recommendations for readers interested in the city of Stockholm for NYT. 

Lit Hub shares "Six Books That Embrace the 1970s."

Tor.com lists “Five SF Stories That Look Like Fantasy.”

Authors on Air

Héctor Tobar, author of The Last Great Road Bum (MCD: Macmillan), talks about the LA Riots on the 30th Anniversary on the Fiction/Non/Fiction podcast.

Terry Gross interviews Ed Yong about his book An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us (Random) and the human limited “sensory experience” on NPR’s Fresh Air.

Sloane Crosley, Cult Classic (MCD), defends "New York City's single women" in a conversation on The Maris Review podcast.

The Screen After Reading podcast discusses the nudity within the adaptation of The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger (Scribner).

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