In This Issue

Catch up with some literary prize contenders now available in paperback! A finalist for the Nebula Prize, Katabasis is a dark academia fantasy epic by R.F. Kuang that "takes readers to Hell and back in an unforgettable journey," whereas Aspen Words Literary Prize finalist So Far Gone by Jess Walter follows a much more earthbound journey through the hellish landscape of American polarization. Susan Choi's Flashlight, a Booker Prize finalist, is a "delicately balanced drama" of espionage and global conflict played out in the lives of one family. And Things in Nature Merely Grow, Yiyun Li's "vital and tenderly written" memoir about her second son's death by suicide, stands out for winning a Pulitzer Prize and being named as a finalist for a National Book Award. These books all remain heavy hitters in more ways than one; it's just their bindings that are now more lightweight.