This week the shortlist for the 2021 Booker Prize was announced, naming Anuk Arudpragasam’s “A Passage North” (read the review), Damon Galgut’s “The Promise (read the review), Patricia Lockwood’s “No One Is Talking About This” (read the review) and Maggie Shipstead’s “Great Circle.” Nadifa Mohamed’s “The Fortune Men” and Richard Powers’s “Bewilderment,” both of which are still forthcoming in the U.S., are also contenders for the 2021 award. The winner of the 52-year-old year-old U.K. -based fiction prize will be named on November 3.
