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Awards & Book News

The Evangelical Christian Publishers Association selects finalists for the Christian Book Awards.

Finalists for the UK’s Romantic Novel of the Year Awards are revealed.

Publishers Weekly reports from the opening day of the PLA 2026 conference.

In March, a director of Tennessee’s Rutherford County Library System was fired for refusing to move LGBTQIA+ children’s books to the adult section; People has coverage.

Dua Lipa, pop star and founder of the book club Service95, will help program October’s London Literature Festival, LitHub reports.

Page to Screen

April 3

The Stranger, based on the novel by Albert Camus. Music Box Films. Reviews | Trailer

Reviews

The New York Times Magazine reviews Transcription by Ben Lerner (Farrar): “For Lerner, the novel never appears to be as interesting or as vital as when up to its ears in indolence and irrelevance, mucking around in all its putative solipsism, puerility and naïveté. He has found a form for fiction to accommodate all the difficult and unseemly feelings it provokes. His books insist upon their artifice and detail their own creation, down to the book advance.”

NPR’s Fresh Air reviews Stay Alive: Berlin, 1939–1945 by Ian Buruma (Penguin Pr.; LJ starred review): “As one who’s written well for decades about historical guilt and denial, Buruma is too savvy to belabor familiar Nazi horrors. That said, he offers two dark truths that strike me as being especially apt in these days when authoritarianism is making a worldwide comeback. The first is that you can’t live in a dirty system without somehow being corrupted…. The second dark truth is how easy it is to simply go along.”

The Guardian reviews Original Sin: On the Genetics of Vice, the Problem of Blame, and the Future of Forgiveness by Kathryn Paige Harden (Random): “It has become almost compulsory for popular science writers to humanise their work by writing about themselves, but Harden is exceptionally skilled at interweaving the personal and the scientific. She writes about her own life experiences…with rare, dangerous honesty. These memoiristic sections also explore the challenge, and necessity, of building bridges between scientific theory…and our own, subjective experiences of what it means to be a moral agent.”

LitHub gathers the best-reviewed books of the week.

Briefly Noted

Public Books interviews Daisy Hernández, author of Citizenship: Notes on an American Myth (Hogarth).

Vulture profiles Ben Lerner, author of Transcription (Farrar).

LA Times talks to Joanna Cheek, author of It’s Not You, It’s the World: A Mental Health Survival Guide for Us All (Balance).

Sarah Hall, author of Helm (Mariner), shares “The Books of My Life” with The Guardian.

Time gathers “the 12 new books you should read in April.”

USA Today recommends three books to read this spring.

Kirkus shares “20 books that are good for a laugh.”

Reactor rounds up five SF novels about “the dark side” of AI.

Authors on Air

On the NYT Book Review podcast, the editors discuss “23 Books We Are Looking Forward to This Spring.”

Tomorrow, the Drew Barrymore Show talks to Andrew McCarthy, author of Who Needs Friends: An Unscientific Examination of Male Friendship Across America (Grand Central); Tamron Hall hosts Kat Ashmore, author of Big Bites: Time To Eat!; Nourishing Family Recipes That Cook in an Hour or Less (Rodale); and Today interviews Arthur C. Brooks, author of The Meaning of Your Life: Finding Purpose in an Age of Emptiness (Portfolio), and Arsenio Hall, author of Arsenio: A Memoir (Atria; LJ starred review).

Meryl Streep will star in Netflix’s adaptation of Jonathan Franzen’s National Book Award–winning The Corrections (Picador), People reports.

Julie K. Brown’s book Perversion of Justice: The Jeffrey Epstein Story (Dey Street) is being adapted as a limited series with Laura Dern starring, Variety reports.

The Testaments, a TV sequel to A Handmaid’s Tale, is on the way; NYT shares details.

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