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The Rumpus Book Club Is Back — with Ann Patchett on June 30

The Rumpus has relaunched its book club, with monthly sessions hosted by Debbie Millman beginning June 30 with Ann Patchett. A reflection on what literary community still means.

N Nicolas Parola · Jun 18, 2026 · 3 min read

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Paula Klein Wins the Premio Lumen de Novela for El amor inventado

Argentine writer Paula Klein receives the 2026 Premio Lumen de Novela for El amor inventado. A first look at a book that promises to explore the hidden architecture of feeling.

N Nicolas Parola · Jun 18, 2026 · 3 min read

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The 2026 Dayton Literary Peace Prize Finalists: Karen Russell, Ann Patchett, and More

The Dayton Literary Peace Prize has revealed its 2026 shortlists — Karen Russell, Gish Jen, Charlotte McConaghy in fiction; Eve Ewing, Jack Fairweather, Amanda Knox in nonfiction. Ann Patchett receives the Holbrooke Award.

N Nicolas Parola · Jun 18, 2026 · 3 min read

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Ghost-Eye, Ghosh, and the Tuesday That Literary Fiction Took Itself Seriously

<a href="https://ebooksdepository.com/en/authors/ghosh-amitav-ghosh-amitav">Amitav Ghosh</a>'s Ghost-Eye is published today. So are new books by Joyce Carol Oates and Isabel Waidner. Sigrid Nørgaard on a June Tuesday that asks something of its readers.

N Nicolas Parola · Jun 17, 2026 · 3 min read

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Kazuo Ishiguro's Next Novel Is a 1930s Spy Caper. Yes, Really.

Five years after Klara and the Sun, Kazuo Ishiguro announces Miss Lambert Steps Aboard Danger — a 1930s spy novel set in London, due March 2027. James Whitmore on what this actually means.

N Nicolas Parola · Jun 17, 2026 · 3 min read

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Carrie R. Moore Wins the 2026 Young Lions Fiction Award

Carrie R. Moore takes the 2026 Young Lions Fiction Award at the NYPL for Make Your Way Home. Valentina Ríos on new voices and what it means to find your way back.

N Nicolas Parola · Jun 17, 2026 · 3 min read

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A Letter from the Vatican: the Pope Has Things to Say to AI (and He's Publishing Them)

Pope Leo XIV's first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, comes out August 18 from Melville House: a document on artificial intelligence that blends theology, philosophy and cultural diagnosis with surprising clarity.

N Nicolas Parola · Jun 16, 2026 · 3 min read

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Annie Ernaux Comes Back — All Three of Her at Once

Seven Stories Press is publishing three Annie Ernaux books in the US this autumn: Hotel Casanova, A Conversation, and Writing, the Other Life. A Nobel laureate's quieter rooms are finally opening to American readers.

N Nicolas Parola · Jun 16, 2026 · 3 min read

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The 2026 Lambda Awards: When Queer Literature Refuses to Be Quiet

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.

N Nicolas Parola · Jun 16, 2026 · 3 min read

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Two Books, Two Prizes, One Certainty: The Women's Prize 2026 Goes to Virginia Evans and Lyse Doucet

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.

N Nicolas Parola · Jun 14, 2026 · 3 min read

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Emily St. John Mandel Imagines America After the Fall

Emily St. John Mandel's forthcoming novel is set in 2031, after the dissolution of the United States. Sigrid Nørgaard considers what it means when a great writer turns her attention to the end of a country — and what kind of novel survives the wreckage.

N Nicolas Parola · Jun 13, 2026 · 3 min read

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Jeffrey Eugenides Finally Gets His FX Series — It Only Took Fifteen Years

The Marriage Plot is coming to FX, directed by Hiro Murai and starring Sadie Sink. Whether Roland Barthes makes for compelling television is a question the streaming gods are now obliged to answer.

N Nicolas Parola · Jun 6, 2026 · 3 min read