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Awards & News

Time unveils its 2026 TIME100, which includes authors Freida McFadden, Yiyun Li, Alan Cumming, Ethan Hawke, and more.

U.S. Poet Laureate Arthur Sze has been appointed for a second term.

The 101st class of Guggenheim Fellows are announced. LitHub highlights the literary fellows. 

NYT Book Review kicks of its 2026 Poetry Challenge next week. 

Penguin Random House Christian Publishing Group acquires direct-to-consumer publisher She Reads Truth, Publishers Lunch reports. 

Yen Press launches the new imprint Avocado House, Shelf Awareness reports. 

Spotify launches physical book sales in the U.S. and UK, Tech Crunch reports. 

LA Times previews this weekend’s Festival of Books. 

A new Pew survey reveals that American adults still prefer print books and few are in book clubs. Publishers Weekly has coverage. 

Reviews

NYT reviews Rasputin: The Downfall of the Romanovs by Antony Beevor (Viking): “It is hard to find anything new to say about Rasputin, but this story of credulous, out-of-touch monarchs steering their country into disaster never loses its sinister appeal”; Into the Wood Chipper: A Whistleblower’s Account of How the Trump Administration Shredded USAID by Nicholas Enrich (Summit): “Enrich’s account is a propulsive witnessing of the agency’s destruction and an engaging amplification of the author’s whistle-blower memos and congressional testimony detailing its demise”; and On the Calculation of Volume (Book IV) by Solvej Balle, tr. by Sophia Hersi Smith & Jennifer Russell (New Directions): “A lot has happened in that time, even if time itself has stood still. Is that the right phrase? How to refer to this mysterious temporal jam is one of the urgent issues in the new book.” Plus there are short reviews of historical novels about the Titanic. 

Briefly Noted

LibraryReads and Library Journal offer read-alikes for Hope Rises by David Baldacci (Grand Central), the top holds title of the week. 

Publishers Weekly rounds up April’s book club picks. 

Reactor suggests “Vintage SF Works About Traveling to the Moon.”

Soham Patel, author of The Daughter Industry (Nightboat), answers 10 questions at Poets & Writers. 

Dustin Hoffman announces a forthcoming memoir, Look at Me (Simon Six), due out November 10. Kirkus has the story. 

The Atlantic highlights The Elusive Body: Patients, Doctors, and the Diagnosis Crisis by Alexandra Sifferlin (Viking). 

People has an interview with Danielle Allen about her novel, Big Girl Blitz (Bramble). Plus, Sheinelle Jones discusses her new book, Through Mom’s Eyes: Simple Wisdom From Mothers Who Raised Extraordinary Humans (Putnam). 

Authors on Air

Lena Dunham discusses her new memoir, Famesick (Random), on the PBS News Settle In podcast. 

Patrick Schwarzenegger is added to the cast of the adaptation of Emily Henry’s Beach Read. Deadline has the news and also rounds up everything to know about the upcoming film. 

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