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Valentina Ríos was born in Bogotá and grew up reading García Márquez under the impression that magic realism was simply the way things were. She studied journalism at the Universidad Nacional before moving to Barcelona on a cultural journalism grant. She has spent the last eight years writing about Latin American literature, music, and publishing.
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.
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.
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.
Julia Elliott wins the $150,000 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction with Hellions. A searchlight on strange, necessary voices in North American short fiction.
The Women's Prize 2026 has crowned Virginia Evans in fiction and Lyse Doucet in nonfiction. Two very different books, one shared conviction: women's writing doesn't need justification — it needs to be read.
Tomorrow marks forty years since Jorge Luis Borges died in Geneva. Four decades on, his labyrinths keep unfolding in the mind of every new reader who dares to open them.
The Spanish poet confesses his deep unease about the future while working on a tribute to García Lorca. Few statements from a living writer have felt more urgent.
Marjane Satrapi, creator of Persepolis, died on June 4, 2026, at 58. She made collective trauma intimate and redefined what a graphic memoir could do. Her loss is immense.
Mario Vargas Llosa has become the first non-Francophone author admitted to the Académie Française — and he arrives not to praise French culture, but to argue with it.
Yáng Shuāng-zǐ's novel has just won the 2026 International Booker Prize, sharing the prize with translator Lin King. A double feat that puts love and postcolonialism on the same page.
Rey Rosa’s new novel takes us into a dystopian megaprison where freedom dies slowly. A book that reads like a news report dressed as fiction.
Viet Thanh Nguyen, Olivie Blake, and José Andrés are among the six guest editors for the Best American Series 2026 — a lineup that makes October feel too far away.
