Eddie Glaude Jr. speaks in Philadelphia on March 1, 2023. Lisa Lake/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Lisa Lake/Getty Images As the United States prepares to celebrate its 250th anniversary, historian and Princeton professor Eddie Glaude Jr. says he is angry. He opens his new book, America, USA: How race casts a shadow over the
TeaThe Hugo is a fan-chosen award, voted for by the members. World Science Fiction Society. Specifically, this year each option was Too Selected by the readers of locus mag To appear on another major awards list, the Locus Awards. So there is a lot of consensus this year. The list is also full of previous
Madeleine Schwartz recommends Bruna Dantas Lobato, Uwem Akpan, Maeve Brennan and others I’ve spent much of my career reporting outside the United States, but in recent years, many of my interviews have ended the same way: with me being asked questions about what’s happening at home. The world is watching the changing politics in the
The beloved British artist David Hockney, who died last week aged 88, was celebrated for his vibrant paintings, his innovative techniques and his delightful kookiness. He, like many visionary people and other people who know what is good for them, loved fairy tales. In 1969, Hockney made 39 carvings Based on six of her favorite
Nord Stream conspiracy: The inside story of the blast that shook the worldby Bojan Pančevski Most people remember the demolition of the Nord Stream gas pipeline in 2022, if they remember it at all, because of a striking image: a wide, foaming geyser on the blue surface of the Baltic Sea. It was the first
It’s Pride month, and you know what that means: It’s the perfect excuse to buy a bunch of new quirky books. To get you started, I’ve highlighted seven weird books that check out the 2026 Read Harder Challenge tasks, including a non-fiction book about the resistance, a recent Gothic novel, a fabulist book, a book
JWhen I was about to interview this year’s Women’s Prize winner, the first American novelist Virginia Evans, at a drizzly evening party on a London leafy square, we were interrupted because someone wanted to congratulate her. The fan is Richard Curtis. A warm-hearted cry with a sprinkle of gentle humor, Evans’s award-winning novel The Correspondent
Pepper Trident/Getty Images I have this daydream where I go to the park and read under a tree. The sun is shining. It is not very hot. The ground beneath me is comfortable. I have snacks, I’m hydrated, and I’m enthralled by the book in front of me. The problem is that it doesn’t usually
The Winx depicts a giant, sentient sea creature living out of water. NPR’s Alyssa Nadworny talks with Tessa Yang about her debut novel, “The Jelly Fish Problem.” Alyssa Nadworny, host: A new novel mixes marine biology with magic about a giant, glowing monster of jellyfish on an island in Maine. If this sounds like a
Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. Here are the biggest headlines from last weekFrom Amazon’s picks for the best books of 2026 so far, to the winners of this year’s Nebula Awards, and much more. Amazon’s list of the best books