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This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. Winners of the National Book Critics Circle Awards The National Book Critics Circle announced the winners of its book awards for the 2025 publishing year in a ceremony held at New York’s New School last night. I’m delighted to see two of my favorite books of last year take home prizes: Han Kang won the award for fiction for We Do Not Part,…

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. Finalists for the 2026 Women’s Prize for Nonfiction The shortlist for the 2026 Women’s Prize for Nonfiction, which “celebrates excellence, originality and accessibility in narrative non-fiction written by women,” has been revealed. Six titles remain in the running: The winner will be announced June 11 and will receive a prize of £30,000. Today In Books Sign up to Today In Books to receive…

Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. What It’s Like to Be a Romance Cover Model File this under: we all contain multitudes. In 2019, Andrew Flanagan was a welder living in Franklin County, Alabama. Now, he’s the cover model on dozens of romance novels. It’s a transformation that began, as so many things do these days, on TikTok. Flanagan built an audience–now more than 1.7 million–by sharing short videos about his daily life. When he first received a message asking if he’d like to model for…

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. Books Are Fashionable Again/Forever A model, a novelist, a professional ballet dancer, a chef, and Sarah Jessica Parker are among the figures in a new Vogue shoot devoted to the art of reading paper books. Chloe Schama writes that the project was “inspired by the increasing number of people who have been bidding goodbye to the pallor-inducing glow of the blue screen in…

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This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Welcome to Today in Books. Here’s the highlight reel of book news readers were most interested in this week. Is BookTok Dying? There’s an old adage that any headline that ends with a question mark can be answered with “no,” and it seems to hold for the latest round of concern about what’s going on with BookTok. Literary agent and BookTok expert Alyssa Morris identifies “a real sense of fatigue” across social media and notes TikTok users’ worries that new ownership will negatively impact the…

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. Kingsolver Returns October 6 HarperCollins announced yesterday that Barbara Kingsolver will publish her first novel since 2022’s blockbuster Demon Cooperhead this fall. Partita, due out October 6 from the Harper imprint, is about “a married woman whose modest life in farm country is disrupted when an old lover from her days as a music conservatory student wants to reconnect.” Put it right into…

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. The “Review-Driven” Book Is Not a Thing There are a lot of reasons to be concerned about the Washington Post closing its book section, but the impact on book sales should be low on the list (if it’s on the list at all, tbh). Longtime book publicist Kathleen Schmidt unpacks the decline of the “review-driven” book and points to newsletters and podcasts as…

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. To Read: Is BookTok Dying? There’s an old adage that any headline that ends with a question mark can be answered with “no,” and it seems to hold for the latest round of concern about what’s going on with BookTok. Literary agent and BookTok expert Alyssa Morris identifies “a real sense of fatigue” across social media and notes TikTok users’ worries that new…