Philip and William Taubman’s McNamara at War is this year’s winner of the Barbara and David Zalaznick Book Prize in American History, The New York Historical announced Monday. Read about it here!

The Willie Morris Awards are housed at the University of Mississippi and overseen by its Department of Writing and Rhetoric. The awards honor Yazoo City native Morris, former editor-in-chief of Harper’s Magazine, renowned author and a longtime instructor and writer-in-residence at Ole Miss.

“Willie Morris believed in all that was good and possible in the South,” said Susan Gregg Gilmore, winner of this year’s fiction prize. “To be associated with his name in this way, as a writer of Southern stories, is both humbling and a profound honor, especially now when we so desperately need reminders of the good and the hopeful.”

This year’s winners are:

• Fiction – Gilmore, for The Curious Calling of Leonard Bush (Blair)
• Nonfiction – Kevin Sack, author of Mother Emanuel: Two Centuries of Race, Resistance and Forgiveness in One Charleston Church (Crown Publishing)
• Poetry – AJ White, for In Arcadia.

The winners will be featured March 27 at the Oxford Conference for the Book, organized by the UM Center for the Study of Southern Culture. The session, at 4 p.m. at Off Square Books, will be followed by a book signing and closing reception for the conference.

Read more about the winners here.

C-SPAN Booknotes+ with Brian Lamb McNamara at War is “a portrait of a man at war with himself,” say the authors. “It’s riven with melancholy, guilt, zealous loyalty, and profound inability to admit his flawed thinking about Vietnam before it was too late.”

Echoes of the Vietnam War Podcast The Taubmans discuss one of the most consequential and tormented figures of his era on the official podcast of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund.

Bookstack Podcast In an engaging conversation with Richard Aldous, the authors of McNamara at War discuss their revealing new biography.

Tim Weiner’s new book The Mission considers how the CIA is reimagining the art of espionage in the modern era. In today’s episode, he talks with NPR’s Mary Louise Kelly about what he calls an “ideological purge” at the CIA under President Trump and how technology can make spying more difficult.

On this episode of Let’s Talk, hosted by Carolyn Murray, we welcome two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Kevin Sack.

GLP-1 medications like Ozempic have dominated headlines over the past couple of years. When writing his new book, Diet, Drugs and Dopamine: The New Science of Achieving a Healthy Weight, former FDA commissioner David Kessler wanted to unpack the science beyond those headlines. He also has a personal relationship with the subject, having taken GLP-1 medications himself. Host Flora Lichtman joins Kessler to talk about the latest science on metabolism, weight loss, and how these blockbuster drugs actually work.

NPR’s Debby Elliott speaks to author and reporter Kevin Sack about his new book, Mother Emanuel: Two Centuries Of Race, Resistance, And Forgiveness In One Charleston Church.

To figure out who will benefit most, doctors should consider a particularly toxic kind of fat.

Alexei Navalny’s best-selling, critically acclaimed memoir won the award for Best Non-Fiction Book of the Year as well as clinching Overall Book of the Year. Click here to see The Bookseller‘s coverage of the awards and what the judges had to say about Patriot. 

Dr. David Kessler, former FDA commissioner, talks with Rachel Maddow about how Donald Trump’s medical evaluation forms show Trump to be the beneficiary of a drug regimen made possible through the American medical system and its associated scientific research, which are now suffering debilitating cuts at Trump’s hand.