Literary Prizes

Authors

The 2026 Guggenheim Fellows: Thirty-Five Unfinished Directions

This year’s Guggenheim literary class includes Amitav Ghosh, Marlon James, Namwali Serpell, and Madeleine Thien. The fellowship rewards not a book but a direction.

Reviews

Helen DeWitt and the Price of a Prize

The author of The Last Samurai turned down a $175,000 Windham-Campbell Prize. Her reasons reveal uncomfortable truths about how literary awards serve their institutions more than their recipients.