The Robert B. Silvers Foundation announced the winners of the 2026 Silvers-Dudley Prizes, which recognize “outstanding achievement in literary criticism, arts writing, and journalism.”
Winning the Robert B. Silvers Prizes for Literary Criticism were Vivian Gornick, the critic whose books include The End of the Novel of Love, The Situation and the Story, and The Odd Woman and the City, and Tobi Haslett, the journalist whose work has appeared in Harper’s and the New York Review of Books.
The Grace Dudley Prizes for Arts Writing went to Amy Taubin, who for 14 years was a television and film critic at the Village Voice, and Adam Shatz, the U.S. editor of the London Review of Books and author of The Rebel’s Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon, which was longlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and Writers and Missionaries: Essays on the Radical Imagination.
The winners of the Robert B. Silvers Prizes for Journalism were Garry Wills, the prolific author of books including Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America and Papal Sin: Structures of Deceit, and Rozina Ali, a contributing writer at New York Times Magazine.
The Silvers-Dudley Prizes, named after Silvers, the longtime editor of the New York Review of Books, and his partner, Grace, Countess of Dudley, were established in 2021. Previous winners include Merve Emre, Parul Sehgal, Harmony Holiday, and Gary Younge.
Michael Schaub is a contributing writer.
