The Society is pleased to announce the finalists for its 2023 Book Awards:
Shortlisted for the Christian Gauss Award
• Disabilities of the Color Line: Redressing Antiblackness from Slavery to the Present by Dennis Tyler
• Philosophical Siblings: Varieties of Playful Experience in Alice, William, and Henry James by Jane F. Thrailkill
• Read Dangerously: The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times by Azar Nafisi
• The Secret Life of Literature by Lisa Zunshine
• What Is American Literature? by Ilan Stavans
Shortlisted for the Award in Science
• A Silent Fire by Shilpa Ravella
• A Voice in the Wilderness: A Pioneering Biologist Explains How Evolution Can Help Us Solve Our Biggest Problems by Joseph L. Graves
• Origin: A Genetic History of the Americas by Jennifer Raff
• Quantum Steampunk: The Physics of Yesterday’s Tomorrow by Nicole Yunger Halpern (ΦBK, Dartmouth College)
• Visual Thinking: The Hidden Gifts of People Who Think in Pictures, Patterns, and Abstractions by Temple Grandin
Shortlisted for the Ralph Waldo Emerson Award
• Botticelli’s Secret: The Lost Drawings and the Rediscovery of the Renaissance by Joseph Luzzi
• Come Back in September: A Literary Education on West Sixty-Seventh Street, Manhattan by Darryl Pinckney
• Last Call at the Hotel Imperial: The Reporters Who Took On a World at War by Deborah Cohen (ΦBK, Radcliffe College)
• The Grimkes: The Legacy of Slavery in an American Family by Keri K. Greenidge
• Wild New World by Dan Flores
Winners will be announced in late October and appear in the winter issue of The Key Reporter.
