September 10, 2026
Percival Everett’s “James” Gives a Classic American Story a New Center
Percival Everett’s Pulitzer-winning novel James revisits Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by placing Jim’s voice, intelligence, and inner life at the…
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September 10, 2026
Kathleen DuVal’s Pulitzer-Winning History Puts Native Nations at the Center
Kathleen DuVal’s Native Nations: A Millennium in North America has won the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for History, bringing a sweeping…
September 10, 2026
Banu Mushtaq’s “Heart Lamp” Makes Literary History for Kannada Fiction
Banu Mushtaq and translator Deepa Bhasthi have won the 2025 International Booker Prize for Heart Lamp, the first Kannada work…
September 10, 2026
Kate Greathead’s “The Book of George” Wins the 2025 Women’s Prize for Fiction
The American novelist’s sharp, intimate portrait of marriage, fatherhood and modern masculinity has received one of the world’s most prominent…
September 10, 2026
“Books Build Us”: The Library of Congress Brings the National Book Festival Back to Washington
The 2025 National Book Festival will return to Washington, D.C., with a theme that treats reading not as a solitary…