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This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. Longlist for the 2026 Carol Shields Prize The Carol Shields Prize for Fiction, which is the first and […]
Nearly 50 authors, commentators, and academics have dropped out of this year’s Adelaide Festival in Australia after the Festival announced that they were canceling an appearance by Dr. Randa Abdel-Fattah over “cultural sensitivity” concerns. The Palestinian-Australian academic was involved in multiple events at 2023’s Adelaide Festival, but is no longer welcome this year. The Festival […]
Over the weekend, the Writers Guild of America (WGA) issued a statement condemning the pending merger between two massive media titans: Netflix and Warner Bros. Discovery. But laymen may be wondering, why are the writers so upset? We all hate a monopoly. (On paper, even the government is supposed to.) But the WGA says this […]
The wonderful Czech writer Ivan Klima died this past weekend at the age of 94. Klima lived a remarkable, principled life, having survived both the Nazi occupation of Prague (he spent three years in the concentration camp at Terezin as a boy), and the post-1968 repression of the Soviet regime. Unlike his more famous literary compatriots, […]
September 22, 2025, 3:22pm Today, on his 65th birthday, poet and memoirist Kenny Fries has announced the inaugural winner of a new annual award, the Kenny Fries Disabled Writer Literary Award, which “seeks to provide visibility to the next generation of disabled and/or Deaf writers.” “As a ‘pioneer’ of Disability Literature, as I age I’ve […]
This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. Barnes & Noble’s Discover Prize Finalists Barnes & Noble has selected the six finalists for its Discover Prize […]
September 16, 2025, 2:15pm Nobel Laureates Annie Ernaux, Abdulrazak Gurnah, and J.M.G. Le Clézio are among a group of twenty prominent writers who have signed a public letter to President Emmanuel Macron urging the immediate resumption of France’s evacuation program for Palestinian scholars, artists, and writers in Gaza. Since its founding in 2017, the PAUSE […]
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March 26, 2025, 2:11pm These are dire times. Human rights, and especially the rights of trans folks, are under attack. And thankfully, some of the crime fiction community has come together to fight back. For the next week, leading up to the March 31st Day of Trans Visibility, over 100 crime writers are participating in […]
March 3, 2025, 2:10pm It feels like every day lately, we get more news of newsroom hemorrhage. Last week, self-appointed media emperor Jeff Bezos wrote a letter to his employees at The Washington Post asserting in no uncertain terms that the paper’s opinion page will no longer welcome all opinions. “We are going to be writing every […]
