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Awards & News

The 2023 RSL Ondaatje shortlist is announced. 

The European Union Prize For Literature announces winners and special mentions. 

Madeleine Dale wins the 2023 Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize. 

NYPL has a reading list for AANHPI Heritage Month. LJ also shares a booklist.

It is Mental Health Awareness Month. LJ has title suggestions. 

A new novel from Gabriel García Márquez will be published in 2024. Book Riot reports.

The Critical Thinker updates its big 5 US Trade publishing imprint infographic.

Reviews

NYT reviews Shy by Max Porter (Graywolf): “He’s both a hapless, hurting child and a dangerous, violent young man, and his author has loved each part of him into being with the same steady attention.”; The World at My Back by Thomas Melle, trans. by Luise von Flotow (Biblioasis): “On the whole, though, Melle succeeds exceptionally well in conveying catastrophic loss while commanding the reader’s attention.”; Homebodies by Tembe Denton-Hurst (Harper): “Homebodies contemporizes the hero’s journey, giving us a novel of love, work and becoming for the digital age.”; Taking Care: The Story of Nursing and Its Power to Change Our World by Sarah DiGregorio (Harper): “This is a brilliant book, and DiGregorio is a beautiful writer. Taking Care deserves to be on the reading list for nursing and medical schools, and on the bedside table of all politicians.”; The Story of Art Without Men by Katy Hessel (Norton): “Through her narrative form and focus on representation, Hessel’s lineage of milestones obscures both the political history behind women’s exclusion from the canon and the possibility of struggle against it.”; His Majesty's Airship: The Life and Tragic Death of the World's Largest Flying Machine by S. C. Gwynne (Scribner): “At the center of Gwynne’s narrative is a brisk, tightly focused account of R101’s first and final voyage, which keeps the pages turning even as he zooms out to tell a larger story of airships and imperial dreams.”

The Washington Post reviews American Breakdown: Our Ailing Nation, My Body's Revolt, and the Nineteenth-Century Woman Who Brought Me Back to Life by Jennifer Lunden (Harper Wave): “The interplay between the author’s efforts with her own ailments and the chronicling of our nation’s shortcomings delivers the cumulative power of this book.”

LA Times reviews Gone to the Wolves by John Wray (Farrar): “Gone to the Wolves captures the feeling of loving something so intensely it just might kill you.”

Datebook reviews Hope You Are Satisfied by Tania Malik (The Unnamed Pr.): “Malik’s novel is built on a solid core, with gutsy characters whose existential worries remind American readers that the Gulf War wasn’t just a TV spectacle.”

Briefly Noted

The Rumpus talks with Camille T. Dungy about her new book, Soil: The Story of a Black Mother's Garden (S. & S.), “bringing your people onto the page, and planting seeds but being open to surprise.” Read LJ’s interview with Professor Dungy. 

Vogue talks with Alexandra Auder about her new memoir, Don't Call Me Home (Viking), free-range childhood, and growing up with a Warhol muse. 

Poets and Writers has a Q&A with Abraham Verghese, The Covenant of Water (Grove; LJ starred review).

Delia Cai, Central Places (Ballantine), discusses the future of Asian American art, at ElectricLit. 

NPR talks with Deb JJ Lee about their YA graphic memoir, In Limbo (First Second). 

The New York Times Magazine asks: "Is Annie Ernaux the Most Brutally Honest Writer Alive?"

Judy Blume answers Elle’s Shelf Life questionnaire. 

Vogue shares an excerpt from Emma Cline’s new novel, The Guest (Random), due out May 16th. 

LAMBDA Literary has May’s most anticipated LGBTQIA+ books.

Autostraddle highlights forthcoming queer poetry books. 

Gizmodo shares 55 new sci-fi, fantasy, and horror books for May. 

LitHub has 26 new books for the week. 

The Atlantic offers 7 books for when change is in the air.

BookRiot shares astrological book recommendations for May.

Bustle has “30 True Crime Books To Read Now.”

ElectricLit attempts to predict this year’s Pulitzer Prize for fiction. 

PopSugar lists “68 of the Best New Books of 2023 So Far.”

Eleanor Wachtel, longtime host of Canada’s Writers & Company, is moving on after 33 years. CBC has details. 

Laurie Hertzel is retiring as books editor of The Minneapolis Star Tribune. 

Authors On Air

Journalist Justice Malala talks with NPR’s Fresh Air about The Plot to Save South Africa: The Week Mandela Averted Civil War and Forged a New Nation (S. & S.). 

Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah chats with B&N’s Poured Over podcast about this book, Chain Gang All Stars (Pantheon), and the “underlying love in his dystopian setting.”

Jason Reynolds discusses book bans, racism and his new book, Miles Morales Suspended: A Spider-Man Novel illus. by Zeke Peña (Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books), with NPR’s Morning Edition. 

The Corps, inspired by Greg Cope White’s memoir The Pink Marine, is greenlit on Netflix. Deadline reports. 

The Hollywood Reporter has “TV Premiere Dates 2023: The Complete Guide,” including Rainn Wilson and the Geography of Bliss, based on the book by Eric Weiner, Joe Pickett, based on the series by C.J. Box, and Outlander, based on the books by Diana Gabaldon.

Vanity Fair offers a first-look at the forthcoming Dune: Part Two, based on the book by Frank Herbert.

Lizzie Stark, author of Egg: A Dozen Ovatures (Norton), talks about her new book with CBC’s The Sunday Magazine.

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