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Justin Torres and Ned Blackhawk among winners of 2023 National Book Awards, which featured an Oprah cameo and closed with calls for a Gaza ceasefire.

Justin Torres and Ned Blackhawk among winners of 2023 National Book Awards, which featured an Oprah cameo and closed with calls for a Gaza ceasefire.

Los Angeles author Justin Torres and Yale historian Ned Blackhawk were the big winners at the 74th National Book Awards, honored for their works in fiction and nonfiction, respectively, as the prestigious literary prizes were announced Wednesday at a gala at Cipriani Wall Street in New York City.

We read all of the 2023 nominees. Here’s what we thought.

Pulaski Heights Baptist Church has tapped retired Arkansas Supreme Court Associate Justice Robert L. Brown to speak at its second annual Kolb Lecture on Faith and Public Life.

A dystopian novel about a private, for-profit prison system in which inmates compete for their freedom in death matches that are broadcast live. A history of Native American people and

A dystopian novel about a private, for-profit prison system in which inmates compete for their freedom in death matches that are broadcast live. A his

Paul Hardings Maine-based historical novel “This Other Eden,” Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah’s dystopian “Chain-Gang All-Stars” and Justin Torres multi-generational “Blackouts” are among the fiction finalists for the National Book Awards.

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Winners from 25 finalists across fiction, nonfiction, poetry, translated literature and young people’s literature will be announced in November