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Awards & News

The Oregon Book Award winners are announced.

Michelle Adams’s The Containment: Detroit, the Supreme Court, and the Battle for Racial Justice in the North (Farrar) receives the Hillman Prize for Journalism.

The Hugo, Lodestar, and Astounding Award finalists are announced.

The shortlist for the RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers is announced. CBC has details. 

Reviews

LA Times reviews Dear Monica Lewinsky by Julia Langbein (Doubleday): “Though framed by a fantastical conceit, Dear Monica Lewinsky is at its core a realist novel, influenced by the feminism of #MeToo and precise in its delineation of character and place”; and The Rolling Stones: The Biography by Bob Spitz (Penguin Pr.): “Although Spitz unearths little new information, he excels at presenting the Stones in glorious Technicolor. Spitz homes in on the telling details and anecdotes that give the band’s story a deep richness and poignancy.”

Briefly Noted

LibraryReads and Library journal offer read-alikes for Mad Mabel by Sally Hepworth (St. Martin’s; LJ starred review), the top holds title of the week. 

Zibby Owens shares her summer 2026 most-anticipated list. 

Casey McQuiston reveals that a new Red, White & Royal Blue book project is forthcoming. People has the story. 

A new biography, Emperor of Nothing: The Making of Larry David by Blake J. Harris (Dey Street), will publish October 20. People reports. 

Bob Hicok, Breathe (Copper Canyon), answers 10 questions at Poets & Writers.

Rachel Goldberg-Polin discusses her book When We See You Again (Random) with AP. 

Deborah Santana talks with San Francisco Chronicle about her memoir, Loving the Fire: Choosing Me, Finding Freedom (Broad Book).

ElectricLit shares “7 Literary Characters Who Break the ‘Teen Girl’ Trope.”

Political scientist and author Andrew Hacker has died at 96. NYT has an obituary. 

Scientist and author Desmond Morris has died at the age of 98. NYT has an obituary. 

Authors on Air

NPR’s Life Kit talks with Leah Ruppanner, author of Drained: Reduce Your Mental Load To Do Less and Be More (Avery). 

Allen Levi discusses the inspiration behind his novel and book club favorite Theo of Golden (Atria) with AARP. 

Filmmaker Audrey Diwan talks about her forthcoming adaptation of Maggie O’Farrell’s The Marriage Portrait (Knopf). Deadline has the story. 

Counterterrorism expert Erroll Southers’s forthcoming book Inside the Castle Walls will be adapted for film. Deadline reports. 

T. L. Swan’s “Miles High Club” books are set for a TV adaptation at Amazon MGM Studios. Deadline reports. 

Deadline also rounds up details for the new seasons of Bridgerton and Heated Rivalry. 

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