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Kristen Arnett’s bimonthly advice column returns with a new installment that blends literary counsel, editorial pragmatism and the writer’s usual happy-hour tone. The latest round tackles how to read an editor’s notes, and what to do when a long-running novel starts to seem like two books instead of one.
The French writer’s 400-page memoir, translated into English by John Lambert, follows the lives of his parents Hélène and Louis, linking a private family story to Georgia, Russia, the Nazi occupation and the Académie Française. The book also revisits the rupture caused when Carrère published a work his mother had asked him not to write.
Torrey House Press has promoted Will Neville-Rehbehn to publisher as the Salt Lake City independent press prepares a broader acquisitions strategy. The nonprofit, long known for environmental nonfiction, will continue that work while seeking more diverse genre fiction and poetry.
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A new memoir follows Slavova from a childhood in Bulgaria to a complicated adult life in Los Angeles, tracing crashes, arrests, reinventions, and illness along the way. The book mixes survival narrative with a candid account of how she moved through hospitality, modeling, acting, and entrepreneurship before a breast cancer diagnosis reshaped her priorities.
A new batch of young adult books is arriving as the late-summer release schedule begins to swell ahead of Labor Day. This week’s lineup ranges from Gothic historical fiction and academic rivalry to supernatural mystery and quest fantasy, with several queer-friendly titles among the standout picks.
A new biography follows Arlinda Willis from her childhood in segregated Alabama through her career as a dancer, her move north during the Great Migration, and the final years of her life, when medical racism shaped her battle with cancer. Drawing on decades of conversations between Willis and the author, the book places one woman’s story inside the larger history of American racism and Black resilience.
Daniel Kwan and Julia Pott’s new picture book, illustrated by Sean Lewis, follows a nervous ghost preparing for a party and worrying about making a good impression. The story blends playful audience participation with a gentle portrait of social anxiety and a happy ending.
A new Literary Hub essay looks at L.M. Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables as more than a beloved childhood classic, arguing that Anne Shirley’s red hair, anger, and popularity helped shape an idealized image of girlhood tied to whiteness, innocence, and national memory. The piece also traces how the novel’s American publication and later cultural circulation made it part of a broader literary and even imperial story.
A new roundup spotlights five historical fiction books that move between past and present to uncover buried histories, family betrayals, and personal reckonings. From Costa Rica and Ireland to Japan, Taiwan, and medieval Europe, each novel uses a split timeline to reveal how old wounds shape the present.
With László Krasznahorkai’s Nobel Prize and David Szalay’s Booker Prize placing Hungarian writing in the spotlight in 2025, translator and poet George Szirtes reflects on how translation shaped that international reach. He also argues that a translator’s first duty is to listen closely to a book’s voice, even when the work’s sentences stretch to extreme lengths.
A new discussion of Montserrat Roig’s 1972 Catalan novel highlights how the book uses the Spanish Civil War and Franco-era repression as the backdrop for an intimate story of women’s lives, loves, and limits. The novel, now appearing in English in translation by Megan Berkobien and María Cristina Hall, is being read as both a literary landmark and an antifascist work with renewed contemporary resonance.
Recent Christian publishing deals include a four-book Bible study series from New Testament scholar Jeremiah Johnston, a devotional created for neurodivergent readers by Denea Marable, and an illustrated prayer book for back-to-school anxiety from Lisa Tawn Bergen and Lauren Gallegos. The projects are slated to arrive between January and summer 2027.
Alex Ross is revisiting Marvel superheroes in Marvel Dimensions, a new Abrams ComicArts graphic novel that pairs painted origin stories with a separate pen-and-ink comic insert. The project continues the MarvelArts line’s approach of giving creators room for formats and ideas outside Marvel’s usual publishing scope.
Booker Prize winner Marlon James praises Jean Rhys as a revolutionary chronicler of women trapped by social limits, while Pulitzer Prize winner Hernan Diaz describes Franz Kafka as a formative influence whose work taught him discipline, lightness, and narrative risk. Their remarks come in a conversation pairing two major contemporary writers with the earlier authors who shaped their thinking.
A new remembrance highlights the reach of Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library, the free book-by-mail program she began in Tennessee in 1995 and expanded across five countries. The tribute also underscores how the initiative became a steady presence for families during the pandemic and a lasting part of Parton’s public legacy after news of her death.
Kimon de Greef’s new book follows Octavio Rettig, a self-styled shaman whose use of Sonoran desert toad venom sits at the intersection of psychedelics, wellness culture and exploitation. The result is a reported account of how a dangerous practice spread from fringe curiosity into a wider commercial movement.
Passage, Colin Thubron’s new novella, has been described as a spare and moving work that turns a holiday in Egypt into a reckoning with mortality, memory and missed chances. The book centres on Kathleen, a gravely ill actor who insists on travelling after brain surgery, and on the quiet emotional tensions that follow her through the landscape.
Centraal Boekhuis has moved its entire e-book and audiobook catalog onto Bookwire’s platform, transferring fulfillment responsibilities to the German technology company. The deal links a major Dutch-language distribution hub with a fast-growing international digital infrastructure provider.
Lakeside Book Company is moving quickly to expand the distribution business it acquired with Baker & Taylor Publishing Services, restructuring its sales teams and pursuing new publisher clients as the market for distribution options narrows. The company says the changes are meant to give publishers a fuller package that combines sales, distribution, and printing services.
A new study from Originality.ai says 63% of English-language paperback religion books sampled on Amazon were flagged as likely written by AI, with the highest rates in witchcraft, Hinduism and Taoism. Amazon says its content guidelines allow AI-generated books so long as they do not violate store rules, and that it uses safeguards to detect and remove problematic content.
Recent English translations of Antonio di Benedetto’s *The Suicides* and Karen Villeda’s *String Theory / Teoría de Cuerdas* approach suicide from very different angles, but both insist that the subject reaches beyond death itself and into the question of how—and why—people continue living. Together, they also illuminate masculinity, family memory, translation, and violence in Latin American writing.
Cellist and Holocaust survivor Anita Lasker-Wallfisch looks back on her family’s failed efforts to leave Germany, her deportation to Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen, and the unlikely role music played in her survival. The memoir also follows her eventual move to Britain and her long career there.
A new debut novel set in 1996 Gulf Coast Texas follows a former high school football standout whose attempt to become a regional strongman turns into a comic, self-destructive spiral. Kirkus describes the book as part satire and part wake-up call, with enough empathy to keep readers invested in its unruly hero.
Merryl Goldberg’s account of a 1985 trip to the Soviet Union follows a Klezmer Conservatory Band quartet that used performances, visits, and a coded musical system to contact refuseniks while trying to stay ahead of the KGB. The book also shows how that improvised cipher later drew interest from the cybersecurity community.