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Here are the finalists for this year's Story Prize.
By
Brittany Allen
| January 14, 2026
Following backlash over the booting of a Palestinian author, Adelaide Writers’ Week has been canceled.
By
Brittany Allen
| January 13, 2026
Resolved to finish more books in 2026? Here’s your guide to the web’s best reading challenges.
By
Brittany Allen
| January 13, 2026
The grave of murdered poet Refaat Alareer finally has a headstone.
By
Dan Sheehan
| January 12, 2026
Thanks to the Trump administration, LGBTQ+ books are getting harder to sell.
By
Brittany Allen
| January 12, 2026
Dozens of writers are boycotting the Adelaide festival for booting Palestinian-Australian Dr. Randa Abdel-Fattah.
By
James Folta
| January 9, 2026
Best Reviewed
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France and Mexico celebrated their friendiversary by exchanging ancient books.
By
Brittany Allen
| January 8, 2026
The boycott of PEN America led by Writers Against the War on Gaza was a success.
By
James Folta
| January 6, 2026
Harlequin France is firing its human translators and replacing them with—welp, you guessed it.
By
Brittany Allen
| January 5, 2026
This week’s news in Venn diagrams.
By
James Folta
| December 19, 2025
Here’s what’s making us happy
this
week.
By
Brittany Allen
| December 19, 2025
An ode to the old-fashioned publishing holiday party, in photos.
By
Brittany Allen
| December 17, 2025
Want to start a literary magazine? The original
Paris Review
offices are for sale.
By
Brittany Allen
| December 11, 2025
Three books to read if you too are rewatching
Mad Men.
By
Brittany Allen
| December 10, 2025
Here’s why writers are raging about the Netflix-WB merger.
By
Brittany Allen
| December 10, 2025
Christmas shopping in the tri-state area? Check out the estate sale selling 100,000 books.
By
Brittany Allen
| December 5, 2025
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