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This morning, PEN America released the 2021 Literary Awards Finalists. More than forty-five imprints and presses are featured on the list, with half of the titles coming from university and indie presses. Twenty books are from writers making their literary debuts, and half the titles among the open-genre awards are poetry collections. Chosen by a cohort of judges representing a wide range of disciplines, backgrounds, identities, and aesthetic lineages, these fifty-five Finalist books represent...

The world’s biggest owl is endangered—but it’s not too late to save it Jon Letman © Photograph by Jonathan C. Slaght A female Blakiston’s fish owl, alert and with ear tufts erect, prepares to fly in March 2008. Sitting motionless on a fallen tree trunk, Rada Surmach strained to hear the mournful echo of nesting owls, deep in the Tunsha River Valley of the Russian Far East. In the twilight, she finally heard it: The duet of the Blakiston’s fish owl, an endangered spec...

The Good Men Project Become a Premium Member We have pioneered the largest worldwide conversation about what it means to be a good man in the 21st century. Your support of our work is inspiring and invaluable. 13 New Environmental Books To Motivate Action Erin Brockovich, E.O. Wilson, Jane Fonda and others deliver important new books addressing the fights against climate change, the extinction crisis and toxic pollution. By John R. Platt One of the best ways to feel better about the world is to...

The 7 new books that helped me escape this year Todays best articles Daily business briefing Solving COVID newsletter I have a readers confession to make: When quarantine was first announced, part of me was … excited. The mayor is telling me to stay inside and not interact with other people? It seemed like the perfect scenario for getting through a healthy chunk of my massive to-read pile. But the appeal sputtered out almost immediately. Any time I opened a book, Id get distracted. I had...

Geographical Magazine The best books of 2020: Nature, climate and the environment Written by  Geographical 2020  A key category for us here at Geographical, we review all the best nature and environment books in our monthly magazine. Here’s our pick of the best from 2020... IRREPLACEABLE: The Fight to Save Our Wild Places by Julian Hoffman Nature and place aren’t mutually exclusive ideas. ‘Both are critically necessary to the flour...

The 10 Best Books of 2020 The editors of the Journal’s books pages pick the year’s most distinguished fiction and nonfiction. Dec. 9, 2020 6:26 pm ET Abe: Abraham Lincoln in His Times By David S. Reynolds | Penguin Press Antebellum America was a rough-and-tumble proposition, with the dangerous and uncouth life of the frontier reflected in a fractious political scene in which violent language often crossed over into fistfights and worse. In this revelatory work of cultural biogr...