Category iii. of vi.
Nonfiction.
What the panel reads
History, reportage, biography, memoir, criticism, and the essay. Anthologies of other writers' work are read only where the scholarship warrants it. The panel asks one question of every book: is it true, and is it well made?
The 2025 Laureate
The Fires We Forgot
Julius Aster · Farrar, Straus & Giroux — History · second book.
Recent Laureates
The last five seasons.
2024
The Long Commission
2023
Grain and Interest
2022
A House in Cairo
2021
The Weather Bureau
2020
Nine Rivers