They've announced the six-title-strong shortlist for this year's Women's Prize for Fiction, "awarded annually to the author of the best full-length novel of the year written in English and published in the UK".        I haven't seen any of these.        The winner will be announced 13 June ..read more

       Poetry critic and scholar Helen Vendler has passed away; see, for example, The New York Times' obituary (presumably paywalled ..read more

       The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of a Tale of a Redemption, as Philipp Felsch writes about How Nietzsche Came in From the Cold ..read more

       They've announced the shortlist for the German Non-Fiction Prize -- eight titles, selected from 225 (unfortunately not revealed) submissions.        The winner will be announced 11 June ..read more

       The New York Public Library has announced the latest batch of fellows at the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers who will now receive: "a stipend of up to $85,000, the use of an office with a computer, and full access to the Library’s physical and electronic resources" for the term of the fellowship, which runs September through May.        The fifteen fellows were selected from 620 applicants, from 66 countries. They include Traces of Enayat-author Iman Mersal and My Fathers' Ghost is Climbin ..read more

       Psychoanalyst and author Sudhir Kakar has passed away; see, for example, Rishika Singh's report in the Indian Express        Two of his books are under review at the complete review: The Ascetic of Desire and Ecstasy ..read more

       The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Pascal Quignard's The Answer to Lord Chandos, coming out from Wakefield Press.        This is Quignard's response to Hugo von Hofmannsthal's classic 'Lord Chandos Letter' -- see, for example, the recent Joel Rotenberg translation from New York Review Books. Quignard dates his letter to Chandos 23 April 1605 -- and today, 23 April, happens also to be Quignard's birthday ..read more

       The Crime Writers' Association has announced the longlists for their Daggers awards -- unfortunately not in one convenient list; annoyingly, you have to click on each category to see the longlisted titles. (The Bookseller has an (incomplete) overview.)        One of the titles longlisted for the Gold Dagger for best crime novel is under review at the complete review -- The Secret Hours, by Mick Herron.        Disappointingly, I haven't seen any of the titles longlisted for the Dagger ..read more

       They've announced the winners of this year's L.A. Times Book Prizes -- twelve categories, with Ed Park's Same Bed Different Dreams taking the fiction prize.        I not only have not reviewed any of the winning titles, I haven't seen a single one of the sixty (!) finalists. I am apparently really not keeping up with the latest titles ..read more

       The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of the latest Scarlett Thomas, The Sleepwalkers ..read more