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• Canada Offers U.S. Concessions in Trade Talks but Demands a Comprehensive Deal
• A Spurned Schumer Reaches Out to the Left
• Reading Scores Drop for N.Y.C. Students Amid Revamp of Literacy Program
• New Jersey Opens Civil Rights Investigation Into Delaney Hall
• Max Miller Continues to Resist Pressure to Drop Out as Deadline Looms
• Mamdani Faces Lawsuit Over Rollout of Second-Home Tax
• A Generation on Antidepressants Searches for the Exit
• U.S. Squeezes Cuba Even as It Searches for a New Regime Leader
• They’re Battle-Tested Democrats. Do Voters Care?
• Mamdani Hosted a Town Hall About Buses. Why Was the D.S.A. There?

• Labor Market Shifts Into Reverse
• Houthis Claim Attack on Yemeni Military Camp
• Trump Officials Deport Group of Mexicans Despite Torture Risk
• Justin Trudeau, Katy Perry and the Look of the Celebrity Statesman
• Iranians Say Trump’s Promises Have Fallen by the Wayside as Iran War Drags On
• Trump Restarts Battle to Fire Sitting Fed Governor Lisa Cook
• Republicans Need to Push Out Max Miller. Now.
• A Naked Bicycle Protest Is Also a Party. Is That Bad?
• Prosecutor Sues Justice Dept. Over Dismissal After Right-Wing Influencer’s Claim
• Bill Cassidy Will Back Todd Blanche as Attorney General, Salvaging His Confirmation
• Photos Show England Turning Brown in Drought
• Pope Leo XIV Was Elected. The Chicago White Sox Were Resurrected.

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• New BISG Head Lays Out Priorities
• How ‘The Steps’ by Sylvester Stallone Got Made
• Another American History Tale
• This Week’s Bestsellers: August 3, 2026
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• T. Geronimo Johnson Isn’t Buying Happy Endings
• Diamond Reaches Settlement to Return Publishers’ Inventory
• Fable Surpasses 5 Million Users
• Spending on College Course Materials Falls Again
• Sales Up, Profits Down at HarperCollins in Fiscal 2026
• Brian Murray Addresses AI Authorship Issues
• New Kids’ and YA Books: Week of August 10, 2026
• 2026 SCBWI Virtual Summer Conference Takes a Deep Dive into Book Banning
• In Conversation: Natasha Díaz and Máire Roche on Remixing the Classics for Teens
• Barbra Streisand’s Children’s Book Debut Lands at Penguin
• Sourcebooks Taps Leigh Haber to Lead Comms, Special Projects
• Religion Book Deals: August 5, 2026
• As Christianbook Begins to Rebuild, Publishers Still Wait for Answers
• PRH Initiates New Phase of Iowa Book Ban Case
• Usborne Buys Out Scholastic’s Stake in the Company
• Berrett-Koehler Forms Hybrid Imprint, Montgomery Station Press
• New Voices New Rooms Celebrates Books, Booksellers, and Eileen Dengler
• Angela Baggetta Named Publisher of Columbia Global Reports
• Julie Will Appointed Editor-in-Chief of HarperOne
• Jackie Hill Perry Signs with PRH Christian
• Linking Qur’an and Torah, Muslims and Jews
• Former Archway Staffers Launch Enigma Editions
• Mysteries on the Rise in Christian Fiction
• Migration as a Spiritual Journey: PW Talks with Steven Charleston
• RBmedia Acquires U.K. Indie Boldwood Books
• YA Author Alicia Wallace’s Wattpad Cinderella Story
• Julian Randall on Poetry, Basketball, and the Magic of Both
• New Voices New Rooms Kicks Off 2026 Fall Trade Show Season
• U.K. Publishing Veteran Derek Johns Dies at 78
• Rights Report: Week of August 3, 2026
• Speed Racer: PW Talks with Angelica Cheng
• Eric Carle Museum Staff Seek Union Vote
• After the Cancellation of ‘Call Me, I'll Hide the Body,’ What Comes Next?
• Independent Manga Alliance Launches
• Josh Silver’s ‘Fruit Fly’ Is a Send-Up of the Publishing ‘Machine’
• The Couple That Stays Together Publishes Together
• Books About Town: July 2026
• Princeton University Press Partners with Cashmere on AI Licensing
• Roald Dahl’s Matilda Named Ambassador for U.K.’s National Year of Reading
• Children’s Job Moves: July 2026
• AI May Be Making Publishing Easier, But It’s Still Not Easy
• How ‘Birth of a Culture’ by Grandmaster Flash Got Made
• Dark Horse Union Faces Roadblock to Contract Negotiations
• The New Manhattan Project: PW Talks with Kevin Roose
• Beyond the Book Club: PW Talks with Mikey Friedman
• Quantum Spirituality: PW Talks with Wole Talabi
• Audrey Niffenegger Goes Back to the Future
• Writers Talking Writers: Sigrid Nunez on Virginia Woolf and Keith Ridgway on Samuel Beckett
• ALA Offers Guidance on Evaluating Digital Platforms
• Book Deals: Week of August 3, 2026
• The Evolving Vendor–School Library Ecosystem
• S&S CEO Greg Greeley Reviews His First 100 Days
• Poetry Foundation Library Scraped for AI-Generated Educational Content
• New Kids’ and YA Books: Week of August 3, 2026
• ‘Let’s Sculpt This Together’: PW Talks with Matthew Burgess and Matthew Forsythe
• TV Alert: ‘The Day You Begin’ by Jacqueline Woodson
• Authors Weigh In on Wilder’s ‘Little House’—Then and Now
• Obituary: Benjamin Alire Sáenz
• Beacon Press Launches Fiction Imprint
• Podium to Publish Fiction Podcasts as Audiobooks
• Just Announced: ‘Meet the Hueys’ by Oliver Jeffers
• In Brief: July 30, 2026
• Defending the Literary Ecosystem: PW Talks with Philomena Polefrone
• HBG Posts 1.3% Sales Increase in First Half of 2026
• Do Re Mi Brings Japanese Children’s Books and More Stateside
• How Roberta Gregory Created the Grouchiest Woman in Comics
• Panel Mania: ‘The Yves Saint Laurent Revolution: The Story of ‘Le Smoking’ by Loo Hui Phang & Benjamin Bachelier
• Agate Teams with Publishing Veteran Kathleen Schmidt
• Five Great Comics Based On ‘The Odyssey’
• ‘A Fight in America Between Madness and Sanity’: PW Talks with Dan Houser
• Gertrude Stein Is Having a Moment
• San Diego Comic-Con 2026 Delivers Despite Eisner Leak
• 2026 Booker Prize Longlist Announced
• The On-Sale Calendar: November 2026
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• Writing Out Loud: PW Talks with Julie Andrews and Emma Walton Hamilton
• R.J. Palacio on Her Lifelong Connection to the ‘Odyssey’
• Licensing Hotline: July 2026
• With ‘Heartstopper Forever,’ Alice Oseman Writes Their Happy Ending
• Three on a Theme: YA Novels Tackle Life After Death
• Rights Report: Week of July 27, 2026
• Educators Dive into Summer Reading
• Major AALA Ethics Update Allows Agents to Offer Paid Editorial, Publicity Services
• New Christianbook Owners Promise Fixes at the Company Are Underway
• DC’s Absolute Comics, Mariko Tamaki Headline 2026 Eisner Winners
• The Great Book ‘Nobody’ Will Remember (shelftalker)
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NPR Topics: Books

• 'Hellions' author Julia Elliott wins $150K fiction prize
• Mary Beard illuminates the ancient world -- and our own -- in 'Talking Classics'
• 'Hamnet' novelist Maggie O'Farrell turns to her own family story in 'Land'
• Doctors checked Biden just after Trump debate as Jill Biden feared he had a stroke
• 10 new books in June will transport you
• A kid's book newly published in English has a long backstory in the Soviet Union
• Richard Pryor's daughter studies the N-word — a word he used, then disavowed
• "I felt guilty for being the chosen one": Ada Ferrer on her memoir about leaving Cuba
• 'American Rambler' traces the path, and truth-squads the tale, of Johnny Appleseed
• Former Obama adviser reflects on the 'Battle for American Identity'

NPR Topics: Author Interviews

• Author Ann Patchett's new novel makes space for optimism
• A new book charts Iran's shift from a movement rooted in independence to present day
• 'Hamnet' novelist Maggie O'Farrell turns to her own family story in 'Land'
• Richard Pryor's daughter studies the N-word — a word he used, then disavowed
• 'How to Rule the World' explores education and power at Stanford University
• In a new novel, 2 women in 1930s New York City face down the mob
• Maggie O'Farrell talks about her highly anticipated new novel, 'Land'
• Former Obama adviser reflects on the 'Battle for American Identity'
• If you attend a David Sedaris reading, you're helping him edit
• Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., talks about his new book, 'Crisis of the Common Good'

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• Jesmyn Ward, James McBride among authors nominated at 10th annual Kirkus Prizes
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• Voice of the Bills, John Murphy, who suffered a stroke last season, opens up in new book
• Epilogue Books serves up chapters, churros and coffee in Chapel Hill, North Carolina
• Richard E. Grant discusses 'A Pocketful of Happiness' with USA TODAY's Book Club: Watch for free
• Melissa Joan Hart was almost fired from 'Sabrina the Teenage Witch' after racy Maxim cover
• 'Divine Rivals' is a BookTok hit: What to read next, including 'Lovely War'
• 'Star Wars' exclusive: Read a Boba Fett excerpt from new 'Return of the Jedi' collection
• Book bans: In 3 years, 60 texts have been challenged in Iowa schools. A new law could ban more.
• Why we love Bright Side Bookshop in Flagstaff, Ariz. (and why they love 'Divine Rivals')

• 'Old Enough' is the 'Big Bisexual Book' of the summer. Here's why bi representation matters.
• Dear Bookseller: Why 'The Secret Keepers' is the best book for precocious kids
• Intersex surgery stole their joy. Now they're trying to get it back.
• Why we love P&T Knitwear, the bookstore that keeps New York's Lower East Side well read
• Jay-Z-themed library cards drive 'surge' in Brooklyn Library visitors, members: How to get one
• Amid controversy, Michael Oher of 'The Blind Side' fame attends book signing in Mississippi
• Billy Dee Williams' new memoir is nearly here—preorder your copy today
• Billy Porter reignites criticism of Harry Styles' Vogue cover: 'It doesn't feel good to me'
• Ziwe's book 'Black Friend: Essays' is coming this fall—here's how to preorder it
• False claim Ghislaine Maxwell's father owns textbook firm; he died in 1991 | Fact check
• 'Nobody Needs to Know' by Pidgeon Pagonis, August Wilson biography: 5 new must-read books
• 'Henry Hamlet's Heart' and more LGBTQ books to read if you loved 'Heartstopper'
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• OnPolitics: Parents clash with school district over LGBTQ books
• Why parents are clashing with schools over 'Pride Puppy' and other LGBTQ+ books
• 'Ludicrous': John Green reacts after Indiana library removes 'The Fault in Our Stars' from young adult shelf
• 'Killers of a Certain Age' and more great books starring women over 40
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NYT > Top Stories

• Canada Offers U.S. Concessions in Trade Talks but Demands a Comprehensive Deal
• A Spurned Schumer Reaches Out to the Left
• Reading Scores Drop for N.Y.C. Students Amid Revamp of Literacy Program
• New Jersey Opens Civil Rights Investigation Into Delaney Hall
• Max Miller Continues to Resist Pressure to Drop Out as Deadline Looms
• Mamdani Faces Lawsuit Over Rollout of Second-Home Tax
• A Generation on Antidepressants Searches for the Exit
• U.S. Squeezes Cuba Even as It Searches for a New Regime Leader
• They’re Battle-Tested Democrats. Do Voters Care?
• Mamdani Hosted a Town Hall About Buses. Why Was the D.S.A. There?

• Labor Market Shifts Into Reverse
• Houthis Claim Attack on Yemeni Military Camp
• Trump Officials Deport Group of Mexicans Despite Torture Risk
• Justin Trudeau, Katy Perry and the Look of the Celebrity Statesman
• Iranians Say Trump’s Promises Have Fallen by the Wayside as Iran War Drags On
• Trump Restarts Battle to Fire Sitting Fed Governor Lisa Cook
• Republicans Need to Push Out Max Miller. Now.
• A Naked Bicycle Protest Is Also a Party. Is That Bad?
• Prosecutor Sues Justice Dept. Over Dismissal After Right-Wing Influencer’s Claim
• Bill Cassidy Will Back Todd Blanche as Attorney General, Salvaging His Confirmation
• Photos Show England Turning Brown in Drought
• Pope Leo XIV Was Elected. The Chicago White Sox Were Resurrected.

Salon.com > books

• The colonial reckoning “The English Patient” adaptation couldn’t capture
• How Holden Caulfield became a performative male
• How owning books became everybody’s business
• “The Wilder Way” finds freedom beyond the comfort zone
• The real genius of Lorne Michaels isn’t comedy — it’s judgment
• The Beatles’ biggest turning points come alive in two new books
• “The Tell” never told the whole story
• Why not just ban all the books?
• Kim Thayil’s “A Screaming Life” will make you hear Soundgarden differently
• Ryan O’Connell is his own inspiration porn

• How Bob Dylan and The Beatles pushed each other to evolve
• Julia Wertz finds the humor in motherhood’s body horror
• Alice Coltrane and No Wave’s overlooked women step out of the margins
• People really love to see feminists fail
• My parents died and left me a mortgage, some guns and 34 decorative fish
• Melissa Auf der Maur’s memoir captures the beauty and brutality of ’90s rock
• Teen mothers were silenced in 1960s maternity homes. Could it happen again?
• We aren’t all reading the same “Wuthering Heights”
• How lipstick became music’s most versatile symbol
• 9 spring memoirs you won’t want to miss
• Telling the hard parts: 4 music books that push past the highlight reel
• 10 culture comforts to beat the post-holiday blues
• “Edward Scissorhands” exposes the cost of being the “exceptional” disabled person
• Cynthia Erivo’s memoir confronts family estrangement, identity and the costs of fame
• Patti Smith opens the final door of her life story
• One writer’s plan to rescue baseball from itself
• Paul McCartney’s Wings spread again with new book and anthology
• Alison Bechdel faces her sellout fears
• Amber Ruffin’s hilariously horrifying book about everyday racism shows this is indeed who we are
• Laura Lippman on turning true crime into fiction: “Am I not appropriating somebody’s story?”