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Patricio Pron Opens His Pandora's Box with a Novel You Don't Expect

Patricio Pron's new novel is unpredictable — and in these times, that is worth more than it might seem. A writer who empties himself onto the page and invites you to do the same.

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Sofía Balbuena Wins the Ribera del Duero Prize and Talks About Women's Inner Torment

Spanish author Sofía Balbuena has won the Ribera del Duero Prize for short fiction. Her work explores the inner lives of women — not as a sociological exercise, but as the only territory she seems interested in mapping.

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Mariner Is Bringing Philip Roth Back — Which Raises the Usual Questions

Mariner Books has announced a Philip Roth reissue programme. Nobody is surprised, everyone has an opinion, and the books remain exactly as good and as troubling as they always were.

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Lyndal Roper Wins the 2026 Holberg Prize for 'Outstandingly Original' Scholarship

The 2026 Holberg Prize has gone to historian Lyndal Roper, whose work on early modern Germany and the Reformation has consistently refused the comfortable distance most historians maintain from their subjects.