A jazz novel set in Berlin and Paris on the eve of war, following musicians whose friendship and ambition are tested under Nazi rule and historical rupture.

Jazz keeps playing under the shadow of war.

A nonfiction study of dehumanization and how thinking of others as less than human has sustained slavery, genocide, war, and xenophobia across history.

It probes the danger of treating people as less than human.

A history book that rereads the Civil War and civil rights era together, showing how emancipation, memory, and national mythology are intertwined.

It reassembles national myth from the history of emancipation.

A lifetime-achievement recognition for Wole Soyinka’s body of work in drama and poetry rather than a single book.

An award for a lifetime of creative work, not a single volume.

A lifetime-achievement recognition for Arnold Rampersad’s body of work in literary criticism and biography rather than a single book.

An honor for a career of criticism and biography, not a book.