If you’d like to keep up with our SVWC family, check out the latest news, articles, book releases, interviews, and awards from our past writers and presenters. We will continue to update this blog as more exciting news comes out of the world of publishing, so be sure to check back periodically. Also, if you’d like to suggest something we missed, please reach out.

NOTEWORTHY NEWS

Check out the article about “Salman Rushdie’s Literary Inspirations” in The New Yorker.

Tommy Orange awarded a 2025 MacArthur grant.

“The Safekeep” by Yael van der Wouden won the 2025 Women’s Prize for Fiction.

Check out Todd Purdum’s op-ed in the New York Times, Hollywood Couldn’t Imagine a Star Like This One.

“There’s More to Her Story Than Salman Rushdie.” Check out the New York Times book review of “The Flower Bearers” by Rachel Eliza Griffiths.

The 2026 Financial Times and Standard Chartered Business Book of the Year Award longlist includes SVWC 2026 presenters Liaquat Ahamed, Sebastian Mallaby, and Jill Lepore, along with SVWC alum William Cohan.

2026 BOOK RELEASES

January 26 – Rachel Eliza Griffiths
The Flower Bearers

January 26 – Ben Rhodes
All We Say: The Battle for American Identity: A History in 15 Speeches

February 24 – Michael Pollan
A World Appears: A Journey Into Consciousness

March 31 – Sebastian Mallaby
The Infinity Machine: Demis Hassabis, DeepMind, and the Quest for Superintelligence

April 7 – Ada Limón
Against Breaking: On the Power of Poetry

May 19 – Theo Baker
How to Rule the World

June 2 – Maggie O’Farrell
Land

June 2 – Liaquat Ahamed
1873: The Rothschilds, the First Great Depression, and the Making of the Modern World

July 21 – Colson Whitehead
Cool Machine (Harlem Trilogy #3)

July 21 – Claire Vaye Watkins
Yellow Pine

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