Browsing: Books & Fiction

Lit Hub’s staff spent the week cooking from Richard Olney, hearing Dudamel conduct Mahler, and finding new albums worth the full listen.

Sally Rooney’s publisher Faber has pulled her books from UK sale under the Terrorism Act after she pledged ongoing support for Palestine Action, proscribed in 2025.

From Frankfurt prize dinners to Rikers book clubs, October 9 brings Stephen King controversy, CIA Cold War literature ops, and a whiskey-soaked novel extract.

MacKenzie Scott’s genre pivot, Anne Rice at 50, AI pitch bots, and the week’s sharpest literary arguments from Oct 5–9, 2026.

Translator Lin King is suing an unnamed European publisher over a relay translation of her Booker-winning English edition of Taiwan Travelogue, seeking legal precedent.

The National Book Foundation named 25 finalists for the 2026 National Book Awards across five categories. Winners receive $10,000, a bronze medal, and a statue.

Leah Stewart’s firing from Sewanee, the Anthropic $1.5B settlement split, and Thomas McGuane’s case for fiction that refuses to explain itself.

Lit Hub staff picks span Anne Washburn’s off-Broadway play, NYFF films, and Booker Prize titles generating real reader enthusiasm this October.

Novelist Caro Claire Burke is giving away free tickets to NAZA, a Gaza documentary from the team behind Oscar-winning No Other Land, at NYC’s IFC Center.

From Breton’s death anniversary to RFK’s Skyhorse payments, September 28 in books spans hauntings, Cervantes, witchcraft, and a subject who wouldn’t open her door.