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Afreximbank has announced the jury for the Publishing Prize at CANEX WKND 2026, adding an awards component to the pan-African creative industry gathering. The announcement underscores the event’s focus on publishing within a broader programme spanning African creative business.
Set in coastal Massachusetts, the Booker-listed novel tracks Artie Dam, a history teacher whose unease about his students, his marriage and his son’s past grows into a crisis of despair. The audiobook is read by Robert Petkoff, who brings out the character’s gentleness and mounting hopelessness.
Set in coastal Massachusetts, Elizabeth Strout’s Booker-longlisted novel centres on a history teacher confronting loneliness, family fracture and the threat of a divisive political return. The audiobook is narrated by Robert Petkoff, who brings out both the character’s quiet decency and his despair.
An English-language excerpt from Helene Giannecchini’s An Army of Lovers Cannot Fail, translated by Anna Moschovakis, follows a relationship that begins online and deepens through intimacy, illness, and mutual care. The passage turns a personal encounter into a study of age difference, emotional opacity, and the way political intelligence and tenderness can shape a bond.
The first look at Hope You Still Love Me arrives ahead of the memoir’s May 4, 2027 publication by Santa Fe Writers Project. The book follows Rabha Ashry’s search for safety, healing, and chosen family after fleeing the UAE for asylum in Chicago.
Two new releases have entered this week’s roundup of bestselling books: Caroline Chambers’s What to Cook When You Don’t Feel Like Cooking: Make It Fast and Alaina Urquhart’s The Butcher Legacy. The list also brings back several recent favorites, including The Wedding People and Carl’s Doomsday Scenario, while continuing to show a lack of diversity across major sales charts.
Two new books entered this week’s major bestseller roundups for the first time, while several recent favorites climbed back into the rankings. The lists also showed the same wider pattern of limited diversity, with multiple notable indie and independent press titles drawing attention alongside the mainstream bestsellers.
Paranormal romance is surfacing as a stronger companion to romantasy, with new books featuring ghosts, vampires, necromancers, and spirits arriving for readers who want a happy ending with a supernatural twist. The latest crop includes three 2026 titles already available to read and two upcoming releases due later this year.
A new wave of paranormal romance is leaning into ghosts, vampires, necromancy and the Underworld, with several titles already out in 2026 and two more arriving later this year. The books show how the genre is adapting its guaranteed happy endings to lovers who are dead, undead or otherwise beyond the ordinary.
This week’s review selection spans Jon Ronson’s latest study of men in crisis, a reassessment of William Kennedy’s Albany novels, and new criticism of books by Kurt Andersen, Meg Mason and Gil Durán. The roundup highlights work that ranges from literary history and journalism-inflected fiction to contemporary nonfiction about online extremism.
A Literary Hub essay looks closely at Elliott Smith’s Los Angeles Fonda Theatre performance and uses it to explore the singer-songwriter’s legacy, his fragile recovery, and the intensely collaborative culture built by fans after his death. The piece argues that Smith’s artistry and empathy remain inseparable in the way listeners remember him and keep his work circulating online.
A late concert recording from Los Angeles has become one of the defining images of Elliott Smith’s career: uneven, intimate, and full of tension between recovery and collapse. More than two decades after his death, fans continue to treat that performance as part of a larger shared effort to preserve and interpret his work.
Kristen Arnett’s bimonthly advice column returns with a new installment that blends literary counsel, editorial pragmatism and the writer’s usual happy-hour tone. The latest round tackles how to read an editor’s notes, and what to do when a long-running novel starts to seem like two books instead of one.
In a new installment of her bimonthly advice column, Kristen Arnett fields questions about how to judge editorial feedback and whether a long-in-progress novel should be split into two books. Her answers emphasize patience, self-scrutiny, and the value of good editing.
In a new piece on the value of pen-and-paper correspondence, Ronda Beaman argues that letters survive the habits of instant digital communication and force writers to say what they really mean. Her new book, A Life in Letters: Notes and Prompts for a Return to Pen and Paper, is available from Amplify Publishing.
Ronda Beaman’s new book, *A Life in Letters: Notes and Prompts for a Return to Pen and Paper*, argues that letter writing remains a uniquely human form of expression. The book frames correspondence not as a nostalgic habit, but as a way to reach difficult truths, unfinished feelings, and words that may otherwise go unsaid.
Nine novellas are being highlighted as proof that short fiction can carry the emotional and literary weight of a full novel. The selections arrive amid renewed attention to the form, which once flourished in the Italian Renaissance and now fits a time-strapped reading culture.
With Crocodilopolis out this week from Bloomsbury, John Manuel Arias is drawing attention to Costa Rica’s literary tradition by naming three writers readers should know: Yolanda Oreamuno, Eunice Odio, and Quince Duncan. Their work spans feminist modernism, mythic poetry, and Afro-Caribbean fiction, reflecting the breadth of a national literature often overshadowed by the country’s natural beauty.
As Crocodilopolis reaches readers this week, author John Manuel Arias is highlighting three Costa Rican writers whose work he says helps define the country’s literary landscape: Yolanda Oreamuno, Eunice Odio and Quince Duncan. The selections range from a mid-20th-century feminist landmark to mythic poetry and foundational Afro-Caribbean fiction.
Kelly Riera’s second picture book in the What They Love series follows a bustling city of service vehicles, from ambulances and fire engines to food trucks and repair crews. Illustrated by Gal Weizman, the book pairs rhyming text with playful wordplay and crowded two-page scenes that invite young readers to spot each character’s role.
Daniel Kwan and Julia Pott’s new picture book, illustrated by Sean Lewis, follows a nervous ghost preparing for a party and worrying about making a good impression. The story blends playful audience participation with a gentle portrait of social anxiety and a happy ending.
A new memoir follows Slavova from a childhood in Bulgaria to a complicated adult life in Los Angeles, tracing crashes, arrests, reinventions, and illness along the way. The book mixes survival narrative with a candid account of how she moved through hospitality, modeling, acting, and entrepreneurship before a breast cancer diagnosis reshaped her priorities.
A new biography follows Arlinda Willis from her childhood in segregated Alabama through her career as a dancer, her move north during the Great Migration, and the final years of her life, when medical racism shaped her battle with cancer. Drawing on decades of conversations between Willis and the author, the book places one woman’s story inside the larger history of American racism and Black resilience.
The French writer’s 400-page memoir, translated into English by John Lambert, follows the lives of his parents Hélène and Louis, linking a private family story to Georgia, Russia, the Nazi occupation and the Académie Française. The book also revisits the rupture caused when Carrère published a work his mother had asked him not to write.
Torrey House Press has promoted Will Neville-Rehbehn to publisher as the Salt Lake City independent press prepares a broader acquisitions strategy. The nonprofit, long known for environmental nonfiction, will continue that work while seeking more diverse genre fiction and poetry.
Hanover Square Press has signed an eight-book agreement to publish U.K. thriller author Jack Jordan in the U.S. and Canada beginning in 2027. The launch title, Conviction, already has a Hulu adaptation in development with Elisabeth Moss attached to star.
Netflix will release Guarding Stars, the film version of Katherine Center’s novel The Bodyguard, on Nov. 18. The holiday romantic comedy stars Leighton Meester and Jared Padalecki and was retitled after fan and reader input to avoid confusion with the 1992 film starring Kevin Costner and Whitney Houston.
The Un Certain Regard title, based on Nobel Prize winner Annie Ernaux’s memoir, has landed at Zeitgeist Films in association with Kino Lorber. The companies are planning a New York opening at Film Forum in April 2027, followed by a national rollout.
Benjamin Davis of Chill Subs has laid out why many prestigious literary magazines charge writers to submit work, what he sees as broken in the submissions market, and how new journals may be able to survive. The discussion centers on the economics of literary publishing and the pressures facing both established magazines and emerging outlets.
HarperCollins is introducing KAZÉ, a collaborative, creator-focused imprint devoted to manga, manhwa and manhua. The new line is aimed at English-language readers and expands the company’s presence in comics and graphic storytelling.
Insight Editions has introduced Naga Archives, a new imprint aimed at books centered on supernatural technologies, mythical creatures, occult iconography, and forgotten belief systems. The launch signals a targeted expansion into publishing for readers drawn to esoteric and fantastical subjects.
Bindery Books is starting a new fiction imprint, and it will be run by the people behind the true crime and horror podcast Last Podcast on the Left. The move brings a well-known audio brand into a new role in publishing.
With László Krasznahorkai’s Nobel Prize and David Szalay’s Booker Prize placing Hungarian writing in the spotlight in 2025, translator and poet George Szirtes reflects on how translation shaped that international reach. He also argues that a translator’s first duty is to listen closely to a book’s voice, even when the work’s sentences stretch to extreme lengths.
A new daily roundup of discounted titles features literary fiction, science writing, fantasy, and science fiction, with several ebooks available for $1.99 or $2.99. The selection ranges from Virginia Evans’s The Correspondent to Adrian Tchaikovsky’s Children of Time.
A new roundup spotlights five historical fiction books that move between past and present to uncover buried histories, family betrayals, and personal reckonings. From Costa Rica and Ireland to Japan, Taiwan, and medieval Europe, each novel uses a split timeline to reveal how old wounds shape the present.
A new batch of young adult books is arriving as the late-summer release schedule begins to swell ahead of Labor Day. This week’s lineup ranges from Gothic historical fiction and academic rivalry to supernatural mystery and quest fantasy, with several queer-friendly titles among the standout picks.
A new remembrance highlights the reach of Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library, the free book-by-mail program she began in Tennessee in 1995 and expanded across five countries. The tribute also underscores how the initiative became a steady presence for families during the pandemic and a lasting part of Parton’s public legacy after news of her death.
A new discussion of Montserrat Roig’s 1972 Catalan novel highlights how the book uses the Spanish Civil War and Franco-era repression as the backdrop for an intimate story of women’s lives, loves, and limits. The novel, now appearing in English in translation by Megan Berkobien and María Cristina Hall, is being read as both a literary landmark and an antifascist work with renewed contemporary resonance.
A new Literary Hub essay looks at L.M. Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables as more than a beloved childhood classic, arguing that Anne Shirley’s red hair, anger, and popularity helped shape an idealized image of girlhood tied to whiteness, innocence, and national memory. The piece also traces how the novel’s American publication and later cultural circulation made it part of a broader literary and even imperial story.
Brady’s historical novel tracks 16-year-old Tessa O’Melia from Achill Island to Manhattan during the Great Famine, tracing loss, survival, and reinvention across the Atlantic. The book is praised for its research and warmth, though its treatment of hardship is described as softer than the subject might demand.
Cellist and Holocaust survivor Anita Lasker-Wallfisch looks back on her family’s failed efforts to leave Germany, her deportation to Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen, and the unlikely role music played in her survival. The memoir also follows her eventual move to Britain and her long career there.
A new debut novel set in 1996 Gulf Coast Texas follows a former high school football standout whose attempt to become a regional strongman turns into a comic, self-destructive spiral. Kirkus describes the book as part satire and part wake-up call, with enough empathy to keep readers invested in its unruly hero.
Merryl Goldberg’s account of a 1985 trip to the Soviet Union follows a Klezmer Conservatory Band quartet that used performances, visits, and a coded musical system to contact refuseniks while trying to stay ahead of the KGB. The book also shows how that improvised cipher later drew interest from the cybersecurity community.
Passage, Colin Thubron’s new novella, has been described as a spare and moving work that turns a holiday in Egypt into a reckoning with mortality, memory and missed chances. The book centres on Kathleen, a gravely ill actor who insists on travelling after brain surgery, and on the quiet emotional tensions that follow her through the landscape.
A new young adult novel follows high school senior Willa Taylor after a $25,000 inheritance forces her to choose between staying in Oak Falls and reaching for life beyond it. The book’s split narrative offers two romances, though the structure and repeated emotional beats weaken the overall cohesion.
A new Bailey Briggs cozy mystery places an Oregon bookseller at the center of a death inside an escape room tied to her town’s hidden tunnel system. The holiday-set novel blends family revelations, local history and a crowded suspect list around bookshop owner Bailey Briggs.
A new historical romance imagined in a post-Revelation England sends the Devil to the Great Exhibition in London, where a human species ombudsman is assigned to guide him and soon finds herself drawn to his demon son. The book blends courtship, political intrigue, and paranormal worldbuilding ahead of its May 26, 2026 release.
David Lagercrantz’s latest procedural brings back detective Hans Rekke and police constable Micaela Vargas for a cold case that begins with a writerly coincidence and deepens into a dangerous search for a suspected serial killer. The novel, translated by Ian Giles and due Aug. 25, 2026, continues the series launched with Dark Music in 2022.
A new anthology edited and contributed to by Salazar gathers 17 authors to explore how Latine music moves through family history, cultural inheritance and healing. The collection spans multiple styles, places and generations, highlighting Indigenous and Afro-Latine voices alongside writers connected to Cuba, Mexico, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic and Costa Rica.
Alex Ross is revisiting Marvel superheroes in Marvel Dimensions, a new Abrams ComicArts graphic novel that pairs painted origin stories with a separate pen-and-ink comic insert. The project continues the MarvelArts line’s approach of giving creators room for formats and ideas outside Marvel’s usual publishing scope.
Booker Prize winner Marlon James praises Jean Rhys as a revolutionary chronicler of women trapped by social limits, while Pulitzer Prize winner Hernan Diaz describes Franz Kafka as a formative influence whose work taught him discipline, lightness, and narrative risk. Their remarks come in a conversation pairing two major contemporary writers with the earlier authors who shaped their thinking.
ArtsHub reports that the 2026 NT Book Awards shortlist highlights the breadth of Top End talent. The selection underlines the continuing visibility of Northern Territory writers and the wider literary life of the region.
Jacob Elordi leads an ensemble cast that includes Margaret Qualley, Josh Brolin, Guy Pearce, Allison Janney and Benedict Wong in Ridley Scott’s adaptation of Peter Heller’s post-apocalyptic novel. The film, according to Hollywood Reporter Movies, leans less toward survival spectacle than toward a melancholy character drama set in the aftermath of an influenza pandemic.
The 2026 finalists for the NT History Book Award have been announced, according to Books+Publishing. The available report confirms the shortlist news but does not yet provide the finalist titles or authors, leaving readers to wait for the full line-up and the judging context.
The shortlists for the 2026 NT Literary Awards have been announced, according to Books+Publishing. The announcement puts the Northern Territory’s annual literary recognition program into its next stage and turns attention toward the final outcome.
The shortlists for the 2026 NT Book Awards have been announced, according to Books+Publishing. The reveal places fresh attention on Northern Territory writing and publishing as the awards move toward their next stage.
Kirkus Reviews says the stand-alone teen romance follows two rival-soccer players who enter a fake relationship for practical reasons and end up confronting the real stakes of friendship, ambition and college pressure. The review praises the sports scenes and emotional weight while noting pacing that could be smoother.
Kirkus Reviews has published an early notice for Wilbert L. Cooper’s memoir, framing it as a sharply observed account of what it means to be Black inside American policing. The book connects family history, police culture, and the lived tension between protection and threat.
The Mississippi Library Association has announced the winners of its 2026 Mississippi Author Awards, according to the Picayune Item. The announcement draws attention to the state’s literary community, though the verified material provided does not include the individual winners or category details.
The National Book Festival paired Ann Patchett and Tayari Jones in a conversation about writing, offering readers and aspiring writers a rare chance to hear two acclaimed authors reflect on the work behind the page. NPR Author Interviews has shared part of that discussion.
Dolly Parton, the musician whose philanthropy made her one of the most visible champions of childhood reading, died this morning at 80. Her Imagination Library has given away hundreds of millions of books, and her literary legacy now faces the question of how it will be sustained.
The Canadian Children's Book Centre has announced the finalists for its 2026 awards, a shortlist that puts the year’s standout children’s titles in the spotlight. The announcement marks the next step toward selecting this year’s winners.
Dolly Parton, the country star who became one of entertainment’s rare true multi-hyphenates, has died peacefully in Nashville at 80. Her career stretched across hit records, beloved films, books, television, theater, business ventures, and philanthropy.
ATU’s Cranor has been named the 2026 Booker Worthen Literary Prize recipient, according to Arkansas Tech News. The award brings recognition to a writer connected with Arkansas Tech University and adds another marker of visibility for the region’s literary community.
Kirkus Reviews has announced the 18 finalists for the 2026 Kirkus Prize, an award now in its 13th year and known for its $50,000 prizes in each of three categories. The winners will be named October 7 in New York, with a livestream available online.
A piece carried by EIN News marks National Grief Awareness Day with attention on award-winning author Ann Bolinger-McQuade and the role of personal oracles. The headline signals an intersection of remembrance, writing, and private forms of guidance that may resonate with readers navigating loss.
National security writer Joby Warrick’s new book, The Jackal, traces the career of Carlos the Jackal, the notorious terrorist who moved through nightclubs and luxury hotels while carrying out killings and kidnappings and evading law enforcement for years. The book revisits a figure whose blend of glamour and violence made him one of the defining fugitives of the 1970s and 1980s.
A new look at publishing numbers by data scientist and English professor Dan Sinykin suggests that complaints about men being crowded out of literature ignore a longer history of male dominance. The trend line, he argues, is less a disappearance than a recent shift toward parity.
The Mechanics’ Institute in San Francisco has acquired the Tarpey–Schwed LGBT Families Children’s Book Special Collection, a trove of more than 200 queer-friendly children’s books published from 1969 to 2023. According to Literary Hub, the archive offers a rare look at the changing history of queer representation in children’s publishing and is now searchable online.
Book Riot’s August 25, 2026 deals list puts a mix of recent bestsellers, genre fiction, and essay collections on sale, with prices ranging from $1.99 to $4.99. The selection includes novels by Daniel Mason, Oyinkan Braithwaite, Ali Hazelwood, Erin Morgenstern, Robert Jackson Bennett, and Geraldine Brooks, alongside works by Angela Y. Davis and Kai Cheng Thom.
Kirkus Reviews has named 18 finalists for the 2026 Kirkus Prize, one of the largest annual literary awards, with three winners set to receive $50,000 each. The shortlist ranges from major novelists and memoirists to picture books and young adult titles, and the winners will be announced in October.
The Manitoba Book Awards have released the shortlist for their 2026 honours, marking the latest stage in the province’s annual celebration of writing and publishing. The announcement draws attention to Manitoba’s literary scene ahead of the eventual winners’ reveal.
Asymptote’s latest Translation Tuesday features Pablo Palacio’s unsettling short story “A Man Kicked to Death,” translated from the Spanish by Jeremy Michael Reed. The piece transforms a brief newspaper report into a darkly comic investigation of rumor, desire, and the limits of knowing what happened on a city street.
The International Award for Arabic Children’s Literature has received 475 entries, according to a report from WAM. The turnout points to strong interest in Arabic writing for young readers and highlights the growing visibility of children’s publishing in the region.
Andrea Uptmor’s debut novel follows newlyweds who move into a foreclosed home already inhabited by its former owners in the attic, using the unlikely setup to explore marriage, homeownership, parenthood, and the instability of domestic life in 2008. In conversation with Electric Literature, Uptmor said the novel grew out of real foreclosure-era experiences and her interest in the uneasy overlap between legal ownership and actual occupation.
Literary Hub’s August 25 roundup brings together a technology report on endangered West Virginia scenery, an essay on the rise of Christian nationalism, and a list of new books from major authors including Rachel Cusk, Liane Moriarty, and Jill Lepore. The day’s selections show how the site continues to link books with the environmental and political pressures shaping public life.
Book Riot’s latest roundup of book club-friendly releases includes a mix of sequel intrigue, historical fiction, contemporary romance, and fiction shaped by collective grief and civil rights history. The selections are framed as conversation starters for groups looking for books with strong characters, high-stakes questions, and plenty to discuss.
Book Riot has highlighted six upcoming books by and about trans and nonbinary creators that are due in fall 2026, spanning YA paranormal fiction, body horror, horror novels, and a debut adult memoir. The list arrives as readers are being encouraged to preorder in order to support trans artists and signal demand to publishers.
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead is celebrating its 60th anniversary this year, and its blend of Shakespearean parody, philosophical comedy, and theatrical unease still gives readers and audiences a fresh reason to revisit it. The play helped establish Tom Stoppard as a major force in modern drama, and new reminders of its influence show how durable its appeal remains.
Book Riot has drawn together eight autumn titles that range from a time-loop slasher and a haunted-B&B romance to a grief-centered poetry collection and a small-town return-home love story. The roundup frames fall as a peak reading season and points to a busy stretch ahead for readers looking to preorder across genres.
From school libraries losing staff to public systems facing proposed cuts, libraries are entering another difficult stretch financially. At the same time, new legal and political fights over censorship are shaping how collections are managed, defended, and funded.
A new Book Riot roundup highlights five novels that fuse speculative worldbuilding with classic mystery plotting, from sorcerous London and a murder on a space liner to a magical Chicago hunt for a serial killer. The list points to a growing appetite for genre hybrids that give readers both puzzles and imaginative settings.
Literary Hub marked a crowded publication day with a list of 20 new books, led by Rachel Cusk’s long-awaited Life of M, Liane Moriarty’s Big Little Lies sequel, and Jill Lepore’s new nonfiction on American politics. The lineup spans fiction, memoir, history, and translated literature, underscoring how much of publishing’s momentum now comes from cross-genre event books.
A Literary Hub essay argues that the state’s push to attract data centers threatens the landscapes and communities that have long defined West Virginia, even as officials promote the projects as economic development. The debate has become especially sharp around a proposed $4 billion facility in Berkeley County and a separate plan affecting Canaan.
A new literary and historical account argues that the planet’s illuminated night side is not just a striking satellite image, but evidence of how profoundly human-made light has reshaped darkness itself. From observatory relocations to LED glow and the rise of Starlink, the story traces how artificial night has become a scientific, ecological, and cultural concern.
An account from UC Santa Barbara in the 1980s shows how the rise of the New Religious Right was being studied in real time, as Jerry Falwell Sr. and the Moral Majority helped fuse evangelical politics with a broader conservative backlash. The story places that movement against the backdrop of a campus shaped by the antiwar and countercultural upheavals of the previous decade.
Literary Hub has shared an excerpt from Antonella Anedda’s *Emerging from the Winter Sea*, giving English-language readers a look at the Italian poet’s storm-filled, image-driven work in Wallis Wilde-Menozzi’s translation. The piece appears with publication details crediting Farrar, Straus and Giroux and the relevant copyright holders.
An excerpt from Alyssa Matesic and Patrick McDonald’s 2026 guide to querying agents offers a practical rulebook for follow-ups, from checking reply-rate data to waiting long enough before sending a reminder. The advice also distinguishes between email and QueryManager, and sets expectations for partial or full manuscript requests.
Harvard professor and New Yorker staff writer Jill Lepore spoke with NPR’s Michel Martin about her latest book, The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State. The conversation adds to Lepore’s long-running presence in public literary and historical debate.
Poet Jeon Se-jung has been named the winner of the 17th Baekgyo Filial Piety Literature Prize, according to Seoul Economic Daily. The award highlights the continued place of filial piety as a literary theme in Korea's contemporary poetry scene.
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