Hot News This Week
July 10, 2025
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| “You can learn a lot from just this title”: Conflict Is Not Abuse by Sarah Schulman (Arsenal Pulp Press) is a finalist for the 2025 Las Culturistas Culture Awards, nominated for “Best Title of a Book.” The tongue-in-cheek awards are presented by comedians Bowen Yang and Matt Rogers, hosts of the Las Culturistas podcast, who will crown the winners during a Bravo special on August 5.
Our fingers are crossed for Schulman, and we’re also pulling for “TKTK” to take home the “HAGS Award for Abbreviated Thing to Say.”
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| Little World Is an Indie Next Pick
“Is a saint a victim, an exercise in wishful thinking, an exculpation of someone else’s sins, or truly something miraculous?” writes Jennifer Ray of Powell’s Books (Portland, OR), one of the nominating booksellers. “Poetic and transcendent, yet very much of this plane, Little World is its own miracle.”
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| Palestine Book Award Nominees
The annual awards honor the best new books in English about Palestine, and this year the prize received a record number of submissions. Shortlisted titles will be announced later this month.
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| Most Anticipated Upcoming Titles
A number of titles from Consortium publishers are popping up on most anticipated lists for the second half of 2025. Browse selections below, and peruse Consortium’s Fall 2025 catalogs for more.
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Seven titles appear on part two of Literary Hub’s most anticipated books for 2025:
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Last but not least, nine titles are featured on the latest seasonal preview from The Millions:
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★ “The spectacular first volume of Dahm’s long-running webcomic ushers readers into an instantly immersive fantasy world. . . . This epic deserves a place on the shelf next to Jeff Smith’s Bone series.” — Publishers Weekly
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| | Happy New Years
by Maya Arad, trans. Jessica Cohen
New Vessel Press • August 2025 • 9781954404342
★ “A life replete with grit, optimism, and mystery is created through the simple artifice of a series of New Year’s letters. . . . Themes the author explored to great effect in The Hebrew Teacher are at play here.” — Kirkus Reviews
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“Dismantling the Master’s Clock is all at once a significant cultural achievement and a blueprint for lasting temporal change.” — Strange Horizons
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| | Eden’s Clock
by Norman Lock
Bellevue Literary Press • July 2025 • 9781954276383
“Frederick Heigold, a clocksmith who was rendered mute fighting in the Civil War, leaves his New York state home and strikes out for San Francisco. . . . Eden’s Clock, the final stand-alone novel in Lock’s American Novels series, considers the place of individualism in the face of natural disaster.” — Washington Post
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| | New Digital Review Copies
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Last month, acclaimed poet Arthur Sze was interviewed on PBS NewsHour about his latest collection, Into the Hush (Copper Canyon Press).
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ABA, MPIBA, MIBA, SCIBA, and PNBA Bestseller
I Who Have Never Known Men
by Jacqueline Harpman, trans. Ros Schwartz
Transit Books • May 2022 • 9781945492600
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