The poet and translator Anne Carson will receive the Paris Review’s 2025 Hadada Award, which recognizes “a distinguished member of the writing community who has made a strong and unique contribution to literature.” Reviewing Carson’s latest book, Wrong Norma, in the Winter 2024 issue of Bookforum, Jennifer Krasinski observed: “It is a fitting irony that when trying to describe Anne Carson’s sensibility, one quickly hits the limits of language. . . . To distinguish her literary occupation from that of other authors, one might be tempted to conjure a new word via the dark arts of negation—she is an uncontainer of ideas, or she de-forms thought—but that would belittle her writing as merely an act of resistance where in fact her attention is simply turned elsewhere.”
Percival Everett’s James, Adam Higginbotham’s Challenger, and Kenneth M. Cadow’s Gather are the winners of this year’s Kirkus Prizes.
Hanif Abdurraqib, the poet and author, most recently, of There’s Always This Year, is curating an event series at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in celebration of June Jordan’s legacy. Per Abdurraqib, the events will “center on the spirit of June Jordan’s work: not just her politically radical approach to poetics, but also her radical and expansive approach to the love poem, the form and urgency of love as a central topic, and the understanding that people, collectively, must work to build a new world.” The series will run November 4–8, featuring Jamila Woods, Clint Smith, a screening of the 1981 documentary A Place of Rage, and more.
Sarah Schulman’s next book, The Fantasy and Necessity of Solidarity, will be published in April 2025 by Penguin Random House’s Thesis imprint.
In the latest episode of the Granta podcast, Leo Robson and Josie Mitchell talk with Alan Hollinghurst, author of the Booker Prize–winning The Line of Beauty, about his latest novel, Our Evenings.