Jhumpa Lahiri and Lee Ufan Announced as This Year’s Isamu Noguchi Award Recipients With their very different practices, Lahiri and Ufan share Isamu Noguchi’s spirit of innovation, imagination and commitment to creativity. By Elisa Carollo
Polemical Literature: The New American Obsession Books designated as literary ought to present characters whose actions and inner lives render the depth, flaws, contradiction, and sensory experience of life lived. By Ryan Blacketter
On the Page: Jhumpa Lahiri and Stanley Crouch The Lowland Jhumpa Lahiri (Knopf, 340 pp., $27.95) Jhumpa Lahiri, who won the Pulitzer Prize for her 1999 short story By The Editors
Markus Dohle Invites Random House Staff to Celebrate Year-End Accolades From Book Critics By Leon Neyfakh