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The Rumpus Book Club Is Back — with Ann Patchett on June 30

The Rumpus has relaunched its book club, with monthly sessions hosted by Debbie Millman beginning June 30 with Ann Patchett. A reflection on what literary community still means.

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

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Paula Klein Wins the Premio Lumen de Novela for El amor inventado

Argentine writer Paula Klein receives the 2026 Premio Lumen de Novela for El amor inventado. A first look at a book that promises to explore the hidden architecture of feeling.

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

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The 2026 Dayton Literary Peace Prize Finalists: Karen Russell, Ann Patchett, and More

The Dayton Literary Peace Prize has revealed its 2026 shortlists — Karen Russell, Gish Jen, Charlotte McConaghy in fiction; Eve Ewing, Jack Fairweather, Amanda Knox in nonfiction. Ann Patchett receives the Holbrooke Award.

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

Authors

Carlo Ginzburg, the Historian Who Listened to the Margins, Dies at 87

Carlo Ginzburg, the Italian historian who founded microhistory and taught us to listen to voices the official record preferred to ignore, died on June 17 aged 87.

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

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Ghost-Eye, Ghosh, and the Tuesday That Literary Fiction Took Itself Seriously

<a href="https://ebooksdepository.com/en/authors/ghosh-amitav-ghosh-amitav">Amitav Ghosh</a>'s <em>Ghost-Eye</em> is published today. So are new books by Joyce Carol Oates and Isabel Waidner. Sigrid Nørgaard on a June Tuesday that asks something of its readers.

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

Reviews

43 Million Books and the Question Nobody Wants to Answer

Thirteen publishers are suing WeLib for pirating over 43 million books. Dani Carrasco asks the question the press releases avoid.

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

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Kazuo Ishiguro's Next Novel Is a 1930s Spy Caper. Yes, Really.

Five years after <em>Klara and the Sun</em>, Kazuo Ishiguro announces <em>Miss Lambert Steps Aboard Danger</em> — a 1930s spy novel set in London, due March 2027. James Whitmore on what this actually means.

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

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Carrie R. Moore Wins the 2026 Young Lions Fiction Award

Carrie R. Moore takes the 2026 Young Lions Fiction Award at the NYPL for <em>Make Your Way Home</em>. Valentina Ríos on new voices and what it means to find your way back.

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

Literature

Kevin Young’s Blues, Dante’s Measure, and the Weight of What Stays

Kevin Young won the 2026 Griffin Poetry Prize for Night Watch — a collection the judges called his most experimental yet, Blues-tinged and Dante-structured, examining grief and racial legacies in deeply American language.

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

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A Letter from the Vatican: the Pope Has Things to Say to AI (and He's Publishing Them)

Pope Leo XIV's first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, comes out August 18 from Melville House: a document on artificial intelligence that blends theology, philosophy and cultural diagnosis with surprising clarity.

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

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Annie Ernaux Comes Back — All Three of Her at Once

Seven Stories Press is publishing three Annie Ernaux books in the US this autumn: Hotel Casanova, A Conversation, and Writing, the Other Life. A Nobel laureate's quieter rooms are finally opening to American readers.

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

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The 2026 Lambda Awards: When Queer Literature Refuses to Be Quiet

The 2026 Lambda Literary Awards celebrated both new and veteran voices in LGBTQ+ literature. From Lidia Yuknavitch to Milo Todd, the ceremony at Sony Hall in New York was a reminder that this literature has never stopped growing.

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