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The Must-Reads of 2020’s National Book Awards Shortlist

The National Book Awards finalists announcement is notorious for clogging reading lists with dozens of worthy titles. But if you can only read a few, make it these five.
By Lauren LeBlanc

The Must-Reads of 2019’s National Book Awards Shortlist

The National Book Awards finalists announcement is notorious for clogging reading lists with dozens of worthy titles. But if you can only read a few in 2019, make it these five.
By Lauren LeBlanc
Cynthia Nixon accepts a Tony Award for 'The Little Foxes' in June.

Cynthia Nixon Hosts National Book Awards; Possible Prelude to NY Governor’s Race?

The 'Sex and the City' star will honor books like Jesmyn Ward's 'Sing, Unburied, Sing.' She may also test the waters for a run for governor.
By John Bonazzo
Sports!

The Other NBA: Nerds Should Be the Only Ones Allowed to Play Sports

By Dana Schwartz
So many books. (Photo: Getty)

Which Book Won a Prize This Week?

By Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke
Internationally celebrated author, playwright and critic, Kenyan Ngugi wa Thiong'o is photographed by a fan using a mobile phone on June 13, 2015 during a book signing to celebrate the golden jubilee of his first book 'Weep Not Child' in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi. A 2014 nominee for the Nobel Prize for literature, Ngugi's 50 year literary career, fraught with dangers, has seen him jailed and therafter forced into exile by successive regimes of the time and his latest visit is seen as a real homecoming after he was received at State House by current President Uhuru Kenyatta who's father, Kenya's powerful first President Jomo Kenyatta jailed Ngugi without trial in 1977 over his critical play Ngaahika Ndeeda, (I will Marry When I Want), before being forced into exile after his release during Kenyatta's successor, President Daniel Arap Moi's rule. "This is not the Kenya of yesterday but a Kenya that needs all your talents. It is time for you to come back and help us build the country," Kenyatta is quoted as saying in the local press. AFP PHOTO/Tony KARUMBA

In the E-Book Economy, Big Authors Lose Money to Big Publishers Losing Ground

By Brady Dale
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The Other NBA: Publishers and Writers Play Ball

By Hunter Harris

National Book Award Finalists Announced

By Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke
A woman in Washington is living like Charlotte Bronte- but Twitter won't let her get awa

Who’s the National Book Award Finalist with the Paranoid Poetess Wife?

By Kat Stoeffel
Ward.

Jesmyn Ward, National Book Award Winner, Gets Another Book Deal

By Emily Witt
NBA winner Jesmyn Ward.

Book It! Tears, Cheers, Beers at the National Book Awards

By Emily Witt
LaValle.

Victor LaValle, National Book Award Judge, Says Awards Not Irrelevant

By Emily Witt
Myracle.

Dumb-Assonance? National Book Foundation a Victim of Vowels

By Emily Witt

National Book Award Finalists Named

By Emily Witt

Tina Brown and Patti Smith Party for the Printed Word

By Nate Freeman

Here Are Some Things You Can Say About NBA Winner Jaimy Gordon

By Kat Stoeffel

Book-Biz Bigwigs Relieved to Flee Middlebrow Marriott

By Chloe Malle

Very International National Book Award Finalists Announced

By Molly Fischer

How Many of the 20 NBA Finalists Did Times Critics Maslin and Kakutani Review? Two!

By Leon Neyfakh

Transom Week in Review: Narciso Rodriguez on Michelle Obama; National Book Awards Go Glam; Christian Siriano’s Birthday Bash

By Caroline Bankoff

National Book Awards Tries to Glam Things Up; Who Invited All the Fancy People, Publishing Peons Wonder?

By Jonathan Liu

Why Did Little Graywolf Give Up the Paperback Rights to Their National Book Award Finalist?

By Leon Neyfakh

National Book Award Nominees in Non-Fiction: Faust, Mayer, Gordon-Reed, Sheeler, Wickersham

By Leon Neyfakh

National Book Awards Nominees for Fiction: Hemon, Robinson, Kushner, Mathiessen, Scibona

By Leon Neyfakh
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