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Sigrid Nørgaard grew up surrounded by her father's library in Aarhus, where Danish crime novels shared shelf space with French existentialism and dog-eared Penguin Classics. She studied comparative literature in Copenhagen before a research fellowship on Golden Age Spanish poetry brought her to Madrid, where she never quite left. For over a decade she has written literary criticism for publications on both sides of the Atlantic, with a particular fondness for translated fiction and the quiet violence of Scandinavian prose.
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.
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.
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.
The NYPL has named its 2026-2027 Cullman Fellows: 15 writers including Yaa Gyasi, Megha Majumdar, and Nick Flynn. A $90,000 stipend, a private office, and a year in one of the world's great research libraries.
In an interview with Electric Literature, debut novelist Jiyoung Han discusses weaving magical realism into Korea's Japanese occupation. A promising new voice in a tradition already enriched by Han Kang.
WNBA superstar Caitlin Clark turns a childhood motto into a picture book. A meditation on the long tradition of books that tell children who they might become.
Zadie Smith told an audience she reads mostly women. A brief statement — but one worth sitting with. On canon, attention, and the parts of the library that were always there.
John Banville's new novel arrives from Venice with the author's declaration that 'society, wars, and the world matter little' to him as a writer. A meditation on what literature owes—or doesn't—to the present.
T.J. Stiles, author of prize-winning biographies of Jesse James, Cornelius Vanderbilt, and Custer, receives the 2026 BIO Award for lifetime achievement. Sigrid Nørgaard on the art of reconstructing a life, and why it takes years.
Random House has acquired a posthumous collection of writings by Steve Albini, who died in May 2024. The musician-engineer-essayist left behind not just records, but an argument about how to live in culture honestly.
The 2026 Plutarch Award shortlist — five biographies covering James Baldwin, Gertrude Stein, Charlotte Brontë, Kwame Nkrumah, and a nineteenth-century Native American leader — makes a quiet argument for the form's continuing ambition. Winner announced May 28.
Major publishers are launching dedicated imprints for the 18–24 reader demographic, formalising a category that BookTok built from the margins. Whether this is a cultural shift or a marketing exercise depends on who is asking.
