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The 2026 Inside Literary Prize, judged entirely by incarcerated readers, went to The Book Censor's Library by Bothayna Al-Essa.
Taika Waititi's adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro's Klara and the Sun stars Jenna Ortega and Amy Adams, arriving in theaters October 23, 2026.
An appeals court lifted a 3-year injunction on Arkansas Act 372, letting the state charge librarians and booksellers over restricted books.
Sarah J. Maas revealed A Court of Splintered Harmony and its sequel, with new covers hinting at a Throne of Glass crossover.
Sci-fi authors John Scalzi and Charles Stross went public with specific objections to AI writing assistants, citing provenance and training risks.
Amazon tightened AI disclosure enforcement on KDP in April 2026. Skipping the required checkbox can now get your book pulled with no warning.
John Carreyrou and five other authors opted out of the $1.5 billion Anthropic settlement to sue AI companies individually for far more per book.
Hachette, Cengage, Elsevier, and Scott Turow filed a class action against Google for copying millions of books to train its Gemini AI without permission.
Mary Beard chairs a 2026 Booker Prize panel that selected 13 novels from 163 submissions, with returning winners Douglas Stuart and Marlon James.
Virginia Evans won the 2026 Women's Prize for Fiction with her debut novel The Correspondent. She wrote seven unpublished novels before it.
Jamir Nazir won the 2026 Commonwealth Short Story Prize and was accused of using AI. He has neuropathy and writes on his phone. Granta cut ties anyway.
Netflix's God of the Woods started filming June 12, 2026. Maya Hawke and Kerry Condon star. Author Liz Moore is co-showrunning her own adaptation.
Amazon expanded its 70% royalty rate for Kindle Direct Publishing to $12.99 on July 7, 2026. The first price band increase in 19 years.
Silo Season 3 premiered July 3 on Apple TV Plus with Rebecca Ferguson and a new split timeline reaching back to the before times. Here is everything.
Warner Bros. acquired Shatter Me. The Twilight and Fault in Our Stars producers are attached. Here is what the acquisition means and what comes next.
Netflix's reimagining of Little House on the Prairie premieres July 9, 2026. Season 2 was confirmed before the first episode airs.
Lucky stars Anya Taylor-Joy as a con artist on the run, premiering July 15 on Apple TV Plus. Based on Marissa Stapley's Reese's Book Club novel.
Taiwan Travelogue by Yang Shuang-zi, translated by Lin King, won the 2026 International Booker Prize. The first Mandarin Chinese book to win.
Entangled Publishing appointed Faye Iosotaluno, former Tinder CEO, as President and COO as the Fourth Wing publisher expands beyond books into media.
Ali Hazelwood deactivated her Instagram after a Hunger Games comment at a panel sparked online backlash. Here is what actually happened.
Alice Oseman's Heartstopper Volume 6 released July 2, 2026. The Netflix film arrives July 17 with Kit Connor, Joe Locke, Anna Maxwell Martin, and Derek Jacobi.
Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey opens July 17 with Matt Damon as Odysseus, Anne Hathaway as Penelope, Zendaya as Athena, and Tom Holland as Telemachus. Here is
The Hunger Games prequel arrives November 20, 2026, with Joseph Zada as young Haymitch, Elle Fanning, Kieran Culkin, Ralph Fiennes, and Glenn Close.
A YouTube video hit 1.2 million views. A Reddit thread flagged the prose. Then Hachette dropped the book.
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