- Margaret Atwood kicks off new Margaret Atwood news cycle;
- Lamba’s handed out, including to the amazing Eduardo Coral for poetry and to this Indigenous anthology;
- LBF’s International Excellence Awards;
- International Booker goes to the French for the first time;
- Reading difficult books is good;
- Conservative publishers and authors are having a hard time turning Biden into a villain;
- New Directions turns 85 today…;
- Is it time to reevaluate Mabel Loomis Todd?;
- On Sam Beckett’s secret wedding;
- Speaking of Beckett, why not dress like him this summer?;
- Translators also enjoy finding out what happens in mystery novels;
- Sales news looks good;
- Ralph Fiennes and TS Eliot? Delicious;
- On the racist roots of the American Second Amendment (… dudes, why are we doing these one by one? Pretty sure the whole system was predicated on racism);
- PRH UK donates ALL its audiobooks to national blindness charity;
- New creative writing scholarship in John le Carré’s name;
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