AIR MAIL has announced the winners of its two 2025 Tom Wolfe Literary Prizes: Vincenzo Latronico, author of Perfection (NYRB 2025), for fiction and Meghan Daum, author of The Catastrophe Hour (Notting Hill Editions 2025), for reportage.
The nominating committee—a group including filmmakers Wes Anderson and Lena Dunham, New York Times columnist and Columbia University professor John McWhorter, and AIR MAIL co-editor Graydon Carter, among others—was tasked with selecting two young and 'Wolfean' authors, one of fiction and one of reportage. The prize is sponsored by Montblanc and is accompanied by a $10,000 honorarium to put toward furthering the writers’ craft.