The Books Briefing: And the Winner Is
On this year’s Booker Prize nominees, and winners from recent years: Your weekly guide to the best in books
Awards of any kind are weighted with subjectivity and competition, two qualities that can make them seem unilluminating, corrupting, or just plain useless. Yet the public is still drawn to what, avid and casual readers alike have a new group of novels to dive into, before the winner is named later this year.
