And the Winner is: 2023 National Book Awards Edition

“I wanted it to feel like stepping off the world…” 

Blackouts by Justin Torres (We the Animals) explores love, loss and the stories we leave behind with inventive and transformative form and prose.

Justin joins us on our Poured Over podcast to talk about the source material for this novel, the importance of telling queer stories, navigating legacy, loneliness and identity and more. You can find Poured Over wherever you listen to podcasts, stream from our blog, or watch on our YouTube channel.

Distinguished scholar and historian, Ned Blackhawk urges a conversation-shifting change in our historical perspective — one that places Indigenous history front, center and essential to the accurate rendering of America’s fuller story. Blackhawk’s book sets a new paradigm.

This book is the fifth collection in Craig Santos Perez’s ongoing from unincorporated territory series about the history of his homeland, the western Pacific island of Guåhan (Guam), and the culture of his indigenous Chamoru people.

A novel that explores the universal power of the written word and language, and the power they hold in human relationships. Explore Brazil’s little-known hinterland as well its urban haunts, in this story of repression and shame, survival and endurance.

Inspired by his own life, Dan Santat’s A First Time for Everything is a transformative coming-of-age tale perfect for young people on the cusp of all of their big adolescent firsts — as well as adults wishing to reminisce on their own.