News of note for readers: May 21, 2024

Catch up quick with the bookish news of the past few days ... or take a deeper dive into each story. Your choice!

• Martha Anne Toll reviews the new-to-English novel The Physics of Sorrow by Georgi Gospodinov, a Bulgarian author who won the 2023 International Booker Prize for a later novel (NPR).

• Read an excerpt of Thomas Grattan's novel In Tongues, which follows a young gay man from Minneapolis to New York City with surprising consequences (Literary Hub).

• Penguin Random House has let go the publishers leading two of its most prestigious imprints (The New York Times).