Do You Teach Music?

Congratulations to Cristina Henríquez, who has been selected as a finalist for the 2015 Dayton Literary Peace Prize for her novel The Book of Unknown Americans.

Congratulations to Knopf Doubleday authors Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, author of Plato at the Googleplex, Jhumpa Lahiri, author of The Lowland, and Annie Dillard, author of For the Time Being, who were announced as recipients of the 2014 National Humanities Medal.

Dr. Oliver Sacks died early Sunday morning at his home in New York City. He was 82.

Considering Hate moves beyond arguing about what is wrong with widely accepted understandings of violence and justice to propose ways that we might seek change. Much of the book is rooted in the disciplines of sociology, political theory, and cultural criticism.

Congratulations to Nicholas Epley, who has won the 2015 Society for Personality and Social Psychology Book Prize for the Promotion of Social and Personality Science for his book Mindwise: Why We Misunderstand What Others Think, Believe, Feel, and Want.

Black Earth aims to connect the Holocaust to be understood as part of global history without eluding context and thus understanding by its very intensity and horror.

Congratulations to Julie Schumacher, who has been selected as a finalist for the 2015 Thurber Prize for American Humor for her novel Dear Committee Members.

Congratulations to Laura Auricchio, whose book The Marquis: Lafayette Reconsidered has been shortlisted for the 2015 American Library in Paris Book Award. The annual prize honors the most distinguished fiction or nonfiction book of the year about France or the French-American encounter.

The naked violence, the absurdity of human suffering, the superhuman strength of a few will always be the headlines of war. But years and decades of political and religious conflict also has a way of seeping into the tiniest crevices of human society and culture. This cancer of war can alter the very DNA of nations, and there is often no going back to the old ways. So while understanding the stories of the heroes and villains of war is important, in The Faithful Scribe I set out to do something different: understand war from the view of the survivors.

10 Years that Shook the World tells the tale of an extraordinary decade post 9/11. Within each year, the book present events not in a strict chronology but more as we might remember them, often with the most significant events recalled first. The main topics—politics, economics, people, technology, and the environment—cross over constantly, showing how they are all interlinked and how globalization poses a phenomenal challenge to our world.