Longlists drawn up for book awards

NEW YORK — Louis Menand’s Cold War cultural history The Free World and Hanif Abdurraqib’s meditation on Black artistry A Little Devil in America are among the works on the nonfiction longlist for the U.S. National Book Awards.

On Thursday, the National Book Foundation also announced the poetry longlist, with nominees including Douglas Kearney’s Sho, Hoa Nguyen’s A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure and Forrest Gander’s Twice Alive.

The foundation has already released longlists of 10 for young people’s literature and translation and will today publish the fiction longlist.

Award judges will narrow the longlists for competitive categories to five on Oct. 5. Winners, each of whom receive $10,000, will be announced on Nov. 17.