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front row left to right: L. Bollinger, N. Barnes, E. Robinson, D. Canedy, G. Collins, J. Díaz, J. Daniszewski; back row left to right: N. Brown, S. Engelberg, K. Boo, A. Marqués, S. Hahn, R. Blau, E. Ramshaw, T. Shelby (absent: E. Alexander, S. Coll; N. Carroll subsequently elected) (Photo by Bruce Gilbert/Columbia University)

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Eugene Robinson, chair; Dana Canedy, administrator

Jack E. Davis

Citation
An important environmental history of the Gulf of Mexico that brings crucial attention to Earth’s 10th-largest body of water, one of the planet’s most diverse and productive marine ecosystems.
Tags: 2018
Categories: History
Publisher
Liveright/W.W. Norton
Publication
The Gulf: The Making of an American Sea

Andrew Sean Greer

Citation
A generous book, musical in its prose and expansive in its structure and range, about growing older and the essential nature of love.
Tags: 2018
Categories: Fiction
Publisher
Lee Boudreaux Books/Little, Brown and Company
Publication
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Hernan Diaz

Publication
In the Distance
Citation
A gorgeously written novel that charts one man’s growth from boyhood to mythic status as he journeys between continents and the extremes of the human condition.
Publisher
Coffee House Press
Tags: 2018
Categories: Fiction

Elif Batuman

Publication
The Idiot
Citation
A tender, funny portrait, devoid of sentimentality, of a young woman during a disorienting and pivotal year in college, where she learns the intricacies of language and love.
Publisher
Penguin Press
Tags: 2018
Categories: Fiction

Sharon Grigsby of The Dallas Morning News

Citation
For extraordinary and persuasive editorials that contended that Baylor University was dramatically failing the survivors of sexual assault on campus, arguments that forced readers and the university itself to confront the damage caused not only by the denigration of women but also by obfuscation, cover-ups and lies.
Tags: 2018
Categories: Editorial Writing

Norimitsu Onishi of The New York Times

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For a literary masterwork of observation that painted a portrait of the last days of Japan’s isolated elders, who are housed in iconic apartment complexes where they prepare for deaths they hope will be noticed and tended to by their quiet neighbors.
Tags: 2018
Categories: Feature Writing
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