By Dennis Tyler,
NYU Press
The Phi Beta Kappa Society has announced the 2023 Book Awards Short List
The ΦΒΚ Book Awards are administered in the following three, non-fiction categories:
The Christian Gauss Award: Celebrates outstanding books in the field of literary scholarship or criticism.
The Phi Beta Kappa Award for Science: Recognizes superior books by scientists written to illuminate aspects of science for a broad readership.
The Ralph Waldo Emerson Award: Honors scholarly studies that contribute significantly to interpretations of the intellectual and cultural condition of humanity.
Finalists and award-winning authors are selected by a panel of experts in each category. Award-winning authors will each receive a $10,000 prize. For more information please email Hadley Kelly. The winners will be announced in October.
By Jane F. Thrailkill,Philosophical Siblings: Varieties of Playful Experience in Alice, William, and Henry James
University of Pennsylvania Press
By Azar Nafisi, Read Dangerously: The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times
Dey Street Books
By Lisa Zunshine, The Secret Life of Literature
The MIT Press
By Ilan Stavans,
Oxford University Press
Oxford University Press
The MIT Press
By Shilpa Ravella,A Silent Fire: The Story of Inflammation, Diet & Disease
W. W. Norton & Company
By Joseph L. Graves Jr.,
Basic Books
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By Jennifer Raff,Origin: A Genetic History of the Americas
Twelve
By Nicole Yunger Halpern (ΦBK, Dartmouth College), Quantum Steampunk: The Physics of Yesterday's Tomorrow
Johns Hopkins University Press
By Temple Grandin,Visual Thinking: The Hidden Gifts of People Who Think in Pictures, Patterns, and Abstractions
Riverhead Books
By Joseph Luzzi,Botticelli's Secret: The Lost Drawings and the Rediscovery of the Renaissance
W. W. Norton & Company
By Darryl Pinckney,Come Back in September: A Literary Education on West Sixty-Seventh Street, Manhattan
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
By Deborah Cohen (ΦBK, Radcliffe College),
Random House
By Kerri K. Greenidge,The Grimkes: The Legacy of Slavery in an American Family
Liveright
By Dan Flores,Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America
W. W. Norton & Company
Please email Hadley Kelly at hkelly@pbk.org with any inquiries.