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    Here’s the longlist for the 2025 National Book Award for Fiction.

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    Something to Celebrate: In Praise of Awards Season

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    Here’s the longlist for the 2025 National Book Award for Nonfiction.

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    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
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    Here’s the longlist for the 2025 National Book Award for Poetry.

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    Here’s the longlist for the 2025 National Book Award for Translated Literature.

    By Literary Hub  September 9, 2025
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    Everything you need to know about the Powell’s AI slop snafu—and what we can all learn from it.

    By Brittany Allen  September 9, 2025
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    Good news! Harper’s Bazaar is launching a literary newsletter.

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    James Patterson, please award me one of your $50K author grants.

    By James Folta  September 3, 2025
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    An Open Letter on the Massacre in Gaza from an Editor in Israel

    “We ask that the international literary community take a public stand and join us in starting a dialogue that might restore a vestige of sanity.”

    By Uriel Kon  September 2, 2025
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    Here’s Obama’s 2025 summer reading list.

    By Brittany Allen  August 27, 2025
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    Did Anthropic AI steal your book? You can sign up for updates on the class action suit.

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    C-SPAN is starting a (very “patriotic”) book club.

    By Brittany Allen  August 25, 2025
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    This week’s news in Venn diagrams.

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    Six reissued classics to get hyped for this fall.

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    The tired Millennial’s guide to a few of the Cambridge Dictionary’s brand new words.

    By Brittany Allen  August 18, 2025
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    Here’s the longlist for the 2025 National Book Award for Young People’s Literature.

    By Literary Hub  September 9, 2025
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