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Roberto Saviano Wins Defamation Acquittal: Courts Recognise His Right to Write

An Italian court acquitted Roberto Saviano of defamation, ruling that his criticism fell within the bounds of legitimate expression. For a writer who has lived under police protection for nearly twenty years, it is something.

S Sigrid Nørgaard · Apr 18, 2026 · 3 min read

Literature

An Unpublished Lorca Poem Surfaces — Found by a Flamenco Singer

Miguel Poveda has announced the discovery of an unknown poem by Federico García Lorca, to be published on April 27 in Granada. Nearly ninety years after his death, Lorca keeps finding ways to surprise us.

D Dani Carrasco · Apr 18, 2026 · 3 min read

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Against All Predictions, Independent Bookshops Are Winning

Bookshop.org posted 55 percent growth in 2025, and the ABA is calling this year's Independent Bookstore Day the largest yet. The story of a market that refused to end as advertised.

J James Whitmore · Apr 18, 2026 · 3 min read

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Beatriz de Moura, Founder of Tusquets, Dies at 87

The Portuguese-Catalan publisher who shaped Spanish-language literature for more than five decades leaves behind a catalog of enduring voices — and the quiet conviction that readers will follow difficult books.

V Valentina Ríos · Apr 18, 2026 · 3 min read

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Comics, Children, and the Courage to Stay Human: Notes from Bologna 2026

The Bologna Children's Book Fair gathered its community this week with the kind of quiet insistence that has characterized the event for sixty years. Some numbers from inside the fair that seem worth keeping.

S Sigrid Nørgaard · Apr 17, 2026 · 3 min read

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Completing the Talisman: How Stephen King Finished What He and Peter Straub Could Not

Forty-two years between the first book and the last. Stephen King completes the Talisman trilogy with a novel Peter Straub sketched in an email before his death. October 2026.

D Dani Carrasco · Apr 17, 2026 · 3 min read

Reviews

The Ghost in the Manuscript: Why AI Detection Is Publishing's Least Interesting Problem

Publishing's answer to the AI problem is apparently more AI. Maris Kreizman's sharp new essay argues the real issue is not the technology — it is the industry's long war on its own editors.

J James Whitmore · Apr 17, 2026 · 3 min read

News

Arthur Sze Reappointed Poet Laureate: Poetry as a Bridge Between Worlds

There is a kind of poet who does not write from a center, but from the space between places. Arthur Sze's second term as U.S. Poet Laureate carries his lifelong project of bridging languages and cultures.

V Valentina Ríos · Apr 17, 2026 · 3 min read

Literature

The Whiting Award Names Ten Emerging Writers for 2026

The Whiting Foundation has announced this year’s ten recipients — fiction writers, poets, essayists, and a playwright — each receiving $50,000. A list worth reading against the backdrop of an industry in upheaval.

S Sigrid Nørgaard · Apr 16, 2026 · 3 min read

News

Whoopi Goldberg Is Launching a Publishing Imprint. The Book Still Matters.

The actress and TV host announces her own imprint. With Tucker Carlson publishing Russell Brand and Lil Jon writing a memoir, celebrities are invading publishing. That tells us something.

D Dani Carrasco · Apr 16, 2026 · 3 min read

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When the Book Business Cuts the People Who Make the Books

Bloomsbury eliminates 55 positions after record profits. Catapult employees file for union representation. The publishing industry’s relationship with its own workers is coming into uncomfortable focus.

J James Whitmore · Apr 16, 2026 · 3 min read

Authors

Gonzalo Celorio Accepts the Cervantes Prize: Mexico Arrives at Alcalá

The Mexican author travels to Madrid to receive the Spanish-speaking world's highest literary honor. A prize that goes to a writer who understands literature as collective memory.

V Valentina Ríos · Apr 16, 2026 · 3 min read