Last week the winners of the National Book Critics Circle Awards were announced, and we've rounded up the honorees for your browsing needs here on harvard.com. Each year, the NBCC presents awards for the finest books published in English in six categories: Fiction, Nonfiction, Biography, Autobiography, Poetry, and Criticism. The winners this year include Ling Ma for fiction, with Bliss Montage: Stories and Isaac Butler for nonfiction with The Method: How the Twentieth Century Learned to Act, a chronicle of Stanislavski’s system for acting. The winner for autobiography was Hua Hsu for Stay True: A Memoir. The biography award went to Beverly Gage, author of G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century. Timothy Bewes won the criticism award for Free Indirect: The Novel in a Postfictional Age. The winner for poetry was Cynthia Cruz for Hotel Oblivion. Morgan Talty won the John Leonard Prize for a first book for the story collection Night of the Living Rez.

The inaugural Gregg Barrios Book in Translation Prize is shared by Ukrainian author Andrey Kurkov and translator Boris Dralyuk for the novel Grey Bees. Judges called Grey Bees a “subtle, captivating novel about an isolated man living in the 'gray zone' between Ukraine and the breakaway Donetsk region (prior to the 2022 Russian invasion) . . . The novel, which Kurkov calls his ‘personal farewell to the Crimea that may never exist again,’ artfully illuminates the tragedies suffered on Ukrainian lands while maintaining a broad, humanistic focus on the crisis’s aftermath.”

Learn more about all the winners here on harvard.com.

In other book award news, the International Booker Prize Longlist for 2023 was also announced in March. A winner is selected annually for the finest single work of fiction from around the world which has been translated into English and published in the UK and Ireland. Learn more—key details and surprising facts!—about these selections and shop the honorees (those currently available in the U.S.) here on harvard.com.

Monday, April 3, 6PM ET

John Reid—founder and former president of the Conservation Strategy Fund—discusses Ever Green: Saving Big Forests to Save the Planet. Joining in conversation is science, technology, and conservation journalist M.R. O’Connor. Online via Zoom. Learn more.

Monday, April 3, 7PM

Chad Williams—Samuel J. and Augusta Spector Professor of History and African and African American Studies at Brandeis University—discusses The Wounded World: W. E. B. Du Bois and the First World War. Joining in conversation is the renowned professor, historian, literary scholar, and filmmaker Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Masks required. Join us.

Monday, April 3, 7PM ET

Rachel Heng—author of Suicide Club—discusses her new novel The Great Reclamation, the story of a boy with special gifts growing up in a changing Singapore. Joining in conversation is Meng Jin—author of Little Gods. Online via Zoom. Learn more.

Monday, April 3, 7PM

Two-time Olympian and 2018 Boston Marathon winner Des Linden discusses her memoir Choosing to Run. Joining in conversation is longtime WBZ-TV anchor Lisa Hughes. Tickets required; there are two ticket options available for this event. The event will include a photo line with Des Linden. Masks required. Learn more.

Tuesday, April 4, 7PM

Wendy Dean, MD—president and co-founder of Moral Injury of Healthcare, a nonprofit focused on alleviating workforce distress—discusses If I Betray These Words: Moral Injury in Medicine and Why It’s So Hard for Clinicians to Put Patients First. Joining in conversation are doctors Stuart Pollack and Simon Talbot and health and science journalist Carey Goldberg. Masks required. Join us.

Wednesday, April 5, 7PM ET

Dr. Ricardo Nuila—director of the Humanities Expression and Arts Lab (HEAL) at Baylor College of Medicine—discusses The People's Hospital: Hope and Peril in American Medicine. Joining in conversation is independent journalist and contributing writer at the New York Times Magazine Francesca Mari. Online via Zoom. Learn more.

Thursday, April 6, 7PM

Cartoonist Jimmy Craig discusses Are You Gonna Eat That?: The Essential Collection of They Can Talk Comics. Joining in conversation is Mark Parisi, creator of the comic strip Off the Mark. Masks required. Join us.

Into the Video Archive

In June of 2021 we hosted a virtual event with poet and scholar Clint Smith for his book How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America, that year's winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction. He was joined in conversation by celebrated novelist Min Jin Lee, author of Pachinko. Check out the video on the HBS Channel, where you can explore our virtual event archive, in addition to previous event recordings, courtesy of the Forum Network.

In case you missed it, check out our latest "New This Week" newsletter, and come browse our virtual New Arrivals shelves for all the very latest new books, updated every Tuesday. Our weekly store best sellers are updated on Mondays (and they are 20% off for Frequent Buyer Card members!). And on a monthly basis, we recommend dozens of recently published featured titles, plus members of our Signed First Edition Club receive a new book of great literary merit, selected by our staff.