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James Whitmore spent his formative years in Bristol reading far too much for someone who claimed not to be a literary type. He studied English at Exeter, drifted into book reviewing almost accidentally, and ended up in Seville following a relationship that did not survive but a love of the city that very much did.
Mac Barnett, the US National Ambassador for Young People's Literature, wrote that nearly 95% of children's books are crud. The children's literary world did not take it well.
Oprah Winfrey selected Douglas Stuart's second novel for her book club this week, calling it 'liberating for people who have been suppressing themselves.' Stuart called the phone call surreal. The sales figures will be very real.
Philip Caputo, the Marine veteran who wrote the defining Vietnam War memoir, has died at 84. His voice opened a wound in American literature that never quite healed.
After Hachette Book Group declined to voluntarily recognize its employees' union, 600+ workers filed for an NLRB secret ballot election. The largest potential trade publishing union in the US moves forward — with or without the company's blessing.
Anthony Horowitz — keeper of the Holmes and Bond literary estates — has admitted to using ChatGPT in his writing process. The confession lands differently when the confessor is the author most trusted with literary inheritance.
Hachette, Macmillan, McGraw Hill, Elsevier, and Cengage filed a landmark AI copyright lawsuit on May 5, alleging Meta downloaded 267 terabytes of pirated books with Zuckerberg's explicit blessing—after briefly considering paying for them.
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.
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.
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.
On May 4, the Pulitzer Board names its Fiction winner. Karen Russell's The Antidote is the frontrunner, but Susan Choi, Kiran Desai, and others make this the most interesting field in years.
The Mystery Writers of America announced the 2026 Edgar Award winners on April 30. Robert Crais wins Best Novel for The Big Empty; Lee Child and Donna Andrews are named Grand Masters.
In Una casa sola, Argentine author Selva Almada makes a house the narrator and archivist of a suppressed history — a story of dictatorship, the Madres de Mayo, and the cost of collective silence.
