National Book Award Finalists Include Jane Mayer’s Dark Side, Peter Matthiesen’s Shadow Country, Poet Mark Doty

Among the other nominees are Marilynne Robinson’s Home, first-time novelists Salvatore Scibona (The End) and Rachel Kushner (Telex From Cuba), and Annette Gordon-Reed’s The Hemingses of Monticello; missing from the list are Philip Roth, John Updike, Toni Morrison and Jhumpa Lahiri.