A “patchwork-quilt memoir” by Siri Hustvedt about the death of her husband, novelist Paul Auster, is coming in 2026. Simon & Schuster will publish Hustvedt’s Ghost Stories next spring, the press ...

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The Booker Prize has announced the judges for its 2026 award.

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Darrell Kinsey has won the Center for Fiction’s 2025 First Novel Prize for Natch.

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The U.S. Supreme Court has let stand a Texas county’s ban of 17 books from its public library system, the Texas Tribune reports.

Journalist and author Olivia Nuzzi will leave her role as the West Coast editor of Vanity Fair magazine, the New York Times reports.

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