Warwick Prize for Writing

       They've announced the longlist for the Warwick Prize for Writing; in previous years this all-genre biennial prize had a 'theme' (complexity in 2009; colo(u)r in 2011) but for the life of me I can't determine what this year's theme might have been or whether they have simply done away with that (begging the question what the hell this is a prize for).
       Two of the longlisted books are under review at the complete review:

• Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
• The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes

       Good also to see that works in translation are eligible -- and two did make the longlist (works by Etgar Keret and Nidaa Khoury).
       The shortlist will apparently be announced sometime in August.