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Awards & News

The Dylan Thomas Prize shortlist is announced. 

The SERAPH winners are announced. Locus has details.

Jimmy Fallon announces the return of his book club, with bracket-style voting. People has coverage. 

Publishers Weekly shares updates on the Internet Archive copyright case. 

The World Expression Forum in Norway addresses what it calls a “global free speech recession.” Publishing Perspectives has more.

Reviews

NYT reviews The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness by Jonathan Haidt (Penguin Pr.): “It’s this one-two punch of smartphones plus overprotective parenting, Haidt posits, that led to the great rewiring of childhood and the associated harms driving mental illness: social deprivation, sleep deprivation, attention fragmentation and addiction. He has a lot to say about each of these”; Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present by Fareed Zakaria (Norton): “Zakaria warns against revolutions that move too fast and displace too many people; it now seems that’s exactly what went wrong in the last 40 years with the rise of the global economy”; All the World Beside by Garrard Conley (Riverhead): “Conley’s book is equally short on action, but without a compensating depth of character analysis”; and Glorious Exploits by Ferdia Lennon (Holt; LJ starred review): “Lennon’s vernacular gives the novel a shambolic charm, a story told in a Dublin bar by a drunk lurching between poetry and obscenity—your best friend tonight even if he might not remember you tomorrow.” There is also a paired review of An Emancipation of the Mind: Radical Philosophy, the War over Slavery, and the Refounding of America by Matthew Stewart (Norton) and The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic: Reconstruction, 1860–1920 by Manisha Sinha (Liveright), two books which tell the “century-long story of the revolutionary ideals that transformed the United States.”

Washington Post reviews two books on disinformation in politics: The Lie Detectives: In Search of a Playbook for Winning Elections in the Disinformation Age by Sasha Issenberg (Columbia Global Reports) and Attack from Within: How Disinformation Is Sabotaging America by Barbara McQuade (Seven Stories). 

Briefly Noted

LitHub highlights 23 new books for the week. 

BookRiot shares new releases for the week. 

Reactor has “5 Books That Prove Travel Is Terrifying.”

Heather Gudenkauf, Everyone Is Watching (Park Row), suggests five mysteries and thrillers with a reality TV twist at CrimeReads.

People has a preview and cover reveal of Elton John’s new book, Watford Forever: How Graham Taylor and Elton John Saved a Football Club, a Town and Each Other written with John Preston (Liveright), which publishes August 27. 

NYT suggests “6 Books for Adults Living With A.D.H.D.”

 Hugo Award–winning author Vernor Vinge has died at the age of 79. Wired has an obituary. Deadline also remembers Vinge.

Authors on Air

Stephen Breyer discusses his new book, Reading the Constitution: Why I Chose Pragmatism, Not Textualism (S. & S.), with PBS Canvas. 

Apple TV+’s The Last Thing He Told Me gets a second season that will be based on a forthcoming sequel to the novel by Laura Dave, due out in 2025. Deadline reports. EW also has coverage. 

Vulture shares “11 Books That Scratch the 3 Body Itch,” while The Verge examines differences between the Netflix adaptation and the book. 

Universal Pictures acquires Mark A Bradley’s Blood Runs Coal: The Yablonski Murders and the Battle for the United Mine Workers of America (Norton.; LJ starred review); Cillian Murphy is set to star in the forthcoming adaptation. Deadline reports. AV Club also has details. 

Entertainment Weekly interviews the creator and showrunner of Under the Bridge, based on the true-crime book by the late Rebecca Godfrey, and shares a new trailer. 

Gisele Bündchen, Nourish: Simple Recipes To Empower Your Body and Feed Your Soul, (Clarkson Potter), visits GMA and Kelly Clarkson. 

Jonathan Haidt, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness (Penguin Pr), also visits GMA today. 

Laura Vitale, At My Italian Table: Family Recipes from My Cucina to Yours (Clarkson Potter), will be on Today. 

Cristina Henriquez, The Great Divide (Ecco), and Rebecca Quin, Becky Lynch: The Man: Not Your Average Average Girl (Gallery), will also be on Today. 

Carleigh Bodrug, PlantYou: Scrappy Cooking: 140+ Plant-Based Zero-Waste Recipes That Are Good for You, Your Wallet, and the Planet (Hachette Go; LJ starred review), will be on with Sherri Shepherd. 

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