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By Izumi Suzuki, translated by Sam Bett, David Boyd, Helen OHoran and Daniel...

Ling Ma, Morgan Talty, Boris Dralyuk and Isaac Butler are among the winners of the 2022 National Book Critics Circle Awards announced during a ceremony Thursday night at the New

Ling Ma, Isaac Butler and Morgan Talty are among the 2022 National Book Critics Circle Award winners announced Thursday night in New York City.

The novel adds new texture to the author's classic "No Longer Human," while bringing levity to a somewhat dire thesis: The world is full of inauthenticity.

Mieko Kawakami’s novel “All the Lovers in the Night” has been shortlisted in the fiction category of the National Book Critics Circle Awards, a first for a Japanese author, a publisher said.

Translator Sam Bett brings out the fragile personalities in the author's early novella, a predecessor to his modern classic novel “No Longer Human."

The enduring appeal of a midcentury Japanese novelist who wrote of alienation and suicide.

Will the Japanese novelist Mieko Kawakami’s stark explorations of class translate to American readers?

Our Books Team count down their favourite books of the year, from Gothic cinema tales to Mogwai memoirs.

The best books of 2022, picked by the editors of Publishers Weekly. Best books in fiction, mystery, romance, science fiction, nonfiction, memoir, childrens books, and more.