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Who Reads for the Children's Booker? Actual Children.

The new Children's Booker Prize has named its judges—including three child jurors aged 8-12 who will actually vote for the winner. A £50,000 prize decided in part by its own intended audience.

S Sigrid Nørgaard · May 5, 2026 · 3 min read

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Pierre Lemaitre Closes the Pelletier Saga with 'Grandes promesas': An Ending Worthy of Its Ambition

Pierre Lemaitre publishes Grandes promesas, closing his four-volume saga about the Pelletier family in twentieth-century France. An ending as unsparing as the rest of the series.

D Dani Carrasco · May 5, 2026 · 3 min read

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The University of Chicago Press Is Joining a Union. It Took 130 Years.

A supermajority of University of Chicago Press staff have signed union cards, days after 600 Hachette employees did the same. Publishing's labor reckoning is not slowing down.

J James Whitmore · May 5, 2026 · 3 min read

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Daniel Kraus Wins the 2026 Pulitzer for Fiction: Genre's Finest Hour

Daniel Kraus wins the 2026 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction with Angel Down. Yiyun Li takes the memoir prize for Things in Nature Merely Grow. A year of unexpected choices.

V Valentina Ríos · May 5, 2026 · 3 min read

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The Book That Forced a Nobel Winner to Say No: Doctor Zhivago Returns in a New Spanish Edition

Feltrinelli — the same Italian publisher that first smuggled Doctor Zhivago to the world in 1957 — releases a new Spanish edition of Pasternak's masterpiece. A Cold War story that has not finished telling itself.

S Sigrid Nørgaard · May 4, 2026 · 3 min read

Authors

Siri Hustvedt and the Ghost of Paul Auster: Writing Grief as Presence

Hustvedt publishes a new book on the loss of Paul Auster, described as 'profound and moving.' An impossible question: how do you write about someone who can no longer read what you write about them?

D Dani Carrasco · May 4, 2026 · 3 min read

Literature

Lord of the Flies Has Finally Found Its Television. The Boys Are Back on the Island.

Netflix premieres the first-ever TV adaptation of William Golding's 1954 classic, written by Jack Thorne. Seven decades of cultural presence, and the conch finally washes up on a streaming platform.

J James Whitmore · May 4, 2026 · 2 min read

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Spain's Oldest Bookstore Fights to Survive: 176 Years of History at Stake

Librería Hijos de Santiago Rodríguez, founded in Burgos in 1850, needs to raise €60,000 to avoid closure. Spain's most-read authors have rallied to the cause.

V Valentina Ríos · May 4, 2026 · 3 min read

Reviews

A Novel That Resists Being Filmed, and a Star Who Doesn't Care

Richard Gere is set to play aging novelist Ezra Blazer in a film adaptation of Lisa Halliday's Asymmetry. A great book about power and attention — and a casting choice that raises as many questions as it answers.

S Sigrid Nørgaard · May 3, 2026 · 3 min read

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Eight Stories Fear Wanted Buried: The Unpublished Chaves Nogales

Editorial Renacimiento publishes 'Guerra total' with eight previously unpublished stories by Manuel Chaves Nogales on the Spanish Civil War. A major literary recovery for one of the great writers of the Spanish exile.

D Dani Carrasco · May 3, 2026 · 3 min read

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Jodi Picoult Is Writing Another Novel, and Why That Still Matters

Picoult has announced a new fall 2026 novel with no title or subject revealed. A reminder that the literary world's snobbery toward her remains one of publishing's stranger habits.

J James Whitmore · May 3, 2026 · 3 min read

Authors

"Love Me Like a Dog But Love Me": Cela's Secret Letters to Javier Marías's Mother

The newly discovered love letters of a young Camilo José Cela to the woman who would become Javier Marías's mother have come to light. A correspondence that rewrites the prehistory of two giants of Spanish letters.

V Valentina Ríos · May 3, 2026 · 3 min read