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Awards & News

The National Book Foundation announces its 5 Under 35 honorees: Megan Kamalei Kakimoto, Anika Jade Levy, Carrie R. Moore, Maggie Su, and Stephanie Wambugu.

The shortlist for the Stella Prize for Australian women and nonbinary authors is revealed. The Guardian has coverage. 

Black British Book Festival founder Selina Brown is named the UK’s first National Reading Hero and receives the inaugural Queen’s Reading Room Medalm BBC reports.

Shelf Awareness shares highlights from National Black Bookstore Day. 

Reviews

NYT reviews London Falling: A Mysterious Death in a Gilded City and a Family’s Search for Truth by Patrick Radden Keefe (Doubleday): “Keefe is too assiduous a journalist to be in thrall to the family’s perspective. Yet given the ordeal they endured, perhaps it shouldn’t be surprising that the narrative—in what gets emphasized and what doesn’t—hews so closely to their point of view”; and Creature Feature by Dean Young (Copper Canyon): “Both the humor and the hurt seep through in Creature Feature, a posthumous collection in which the poet seems fully aware of being pre-posthumous.”

The Guardian reviews The Black Death: A Global History of Humanity’s Most Devastating Pandemic by Thomas Asbridge (Knopf): “The story of the Black Death, as historian Thomas Asbridge shows in this magisterial survey, contains many such echoes of the Covid-19 pandemic, but it also shows just how relatively lucky we were a few years ago”; and My Lover, the Rabbi by Wayne Koestenbaum (FSG Originals): “As in Balzac—or Proust, for that matter, another expert in the mechanics of obsession—it eventually turns out that almost all the characters have either slept with each other or are otherwise entangled.”

LA Times reviews Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke (Knopf): “The book offers a bitingly funny and occasionally heartbreaking twist on the classic Instagram-versus-reality story, and a space to address our own culpability within the safe confines of fiction.”

Briefly Noted

LibraryReads and Library Journal offer read-alikes for Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke (Knopf), the top holds title of the week. 

LJ publishes a 2026 graphic novel preview and graphic novel sure bets. 

Reactor shares where to begin reading the work of Ilona Andrews.

Journalist Maggie Haberman will publish Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump (S&S) on June 23, Kirkus reports. 

Rachel Khong, My Dear You: Stories (Knopf; LJ starred review), answers 10 questions at Poets & Writers. 

Vogue has an interview with Emma Straub, author of American Fantasy (Riverhead). In People, Straub suggests six books. 

Authors on Air

Author Julian Barnes tells Bookends that Departure(s) (Knopf; LJ starred review) will be his final novel; CBC has the story. 

Patrick Radden Keefe discusses his new book, London Falling: A Mysterious Death in a Gilded City and a Family’s Search for Truth (Doubleday), on PBS NewsHour’s podcast Settle In. 

Deadline rounds up details on the forthcoming adaptation of Sophie Stava’s Count My Lies (Gallery/Scout). 

The Devil Wears Prada 2, based on the book by Lauren Weisberger, releases a final trailer. GMA has the story. 

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