In a bizarre turn of events, on Wednesday November 4th, New York City’s Queens Public Library (QPL) system, which operates 66 branches, experienced an attack on its online networks by a hacker. The entire system is offline, and is being Read more >
Our friends at n+1 are back with their annual pre-yuletide gift. Bookmatch, the highly bespoke literary quiz, pairs readers with a custom-made syllabus based on their answers to a dozen or so quirky questions. Be warned: this is not Buzzfeed’s multiple Read more >
Today, the American Library in Paris announced the winner of their 2026 Book Award, which “celebrates works of literature, both fiction and nonfiction, that draw on France as a timeless source of inspiration.” This year’s winner is Hotel Exile: Paris Read more >
China Miéville has won this year’s Goldsmiths Prize for his novel The Rouse. The Goldsmiths Prize, launched in 2013 “to reward fiction that breaks the mold or extends the possibilities of the novel form,” has been previously awarded to Ali Smith, Read more >
In addition to a Blue Wave, last night’s midterm may have also brought a Book Wave. In local and state elections all over the country, there was good news for libraries. According to analysts at EveryLibrary, a political action committee dedicated Read more >
The following is an edited transcript of Natasha Trethewey’s remarks at the second annual Harper’s Magazine Awards Ceremony, where John Edgar Wideman was honored with the Lewis H. Lapham Award for Literary Excellence. The ceremony was held on Monday, October Read more >
We welcome November with a wonderful crop of literary works: Louise Kennedy, Tom Drury, Elizabeth McCracken, Michelle Porter, and more, all contribute to our stunning pile of newly released fiction. On the nonfiction side, legendary historian Dan Jones, as well Read more >
In 1836, Charles Dickens hooked the good people of England on a story about a traveling men’s group. Published over two years in 19 installments, The Pickwick Papers launched a craze for serialized fiction. The trend found traction across the pond. Later Read more >
Author Andreas Malm has been denied entry to the United Kingdom on the grounds that his “presence in the UK is not considered to be conducive to the public good,” according to The Guardian and Al Jazeera. Malm was traveling Read more >
It’s November, and this year that means a madcap month: America’s existential midterms; a potentially even more charged Thanksgiving than usual depending on what happens in said midterms; international elections; international conflicts that seem to have no end; weather transitions Read more >
Viet Thanh Nguyen, Mosab Abu Toha, Jenan Matari, and Daniel José Older are among the more than 100 writers who have signed an open letter vowing to boycott Indigo Books and Music, Canada’s largest bookstore. By signing the letter, the Read more >
Magician and escape artist Harry Houdini was quite the collector, filling warehouses and his Harlem home with books, posters, newspaper clippings, and more. It probably shouldn’t be surprising that Houdini was a bit obsessive, but his collecting was next level. Read more >
Ukraine’s Ministry of Culture—together with the KSE Foundation, the Ukrainian Book Institute, and the International Book Arsenal Festival—is developing a grant program to aid Ukrainian publishers affected by the ongoing war. This effort follows recent Russian strikes that destroyed about Read more >
It’s a week of exciting, long-awaited drops. Chad Harbach, bestselling author of The Art of Fielding, is back, fifteen years later, with a follow-up to that beloved novel. Jane Schoenbrun, decorated director of recent movie Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Read more >
Today, at the Cundill History Prize Festival in Montreal, the jurors awarded the 2026 Cundill History Prize, which celebrates “outstanding history writing,” to John Doe Chinaman: A Forgotten History of Chinese Life under American Racial Law by Beth Lew-Williams. “In Read more >
Today, the Ursula K. Le Guin Foundation announced Pip Adam’s Audition (Coffee House Press) as the winner of the 2026 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction, which seeks to reward books that represent the legendary writer’s literary, moral, and Read more >
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