News of note for readers: February 3, 2026

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

• Read the short story "Tortoise Station" by Lydia Millet (Literary Hub).

• Jason and Travis Kelce — of football and pop culture fame — have written a book tackling (pun intended) their fans' curiosities; No Dumb Questions: And All of Our Dumbest Answers comes out June 2 (HarperCollins).

• Two-time National Book Award winner Jasmyn Ward will release a work of nonfiction May 19; On Witness and Respair: Essays contains both new and previously released material (Kirkus Reviews).

• Patricia Cornwell will share her journey from traumatized, neglected child to police reporter, forensic expert, and then bestselling author in a memoir; True Crime comes out May 5 (People).

• Palestinian political leader Marwan Barghouti, who has been imprisoned in Israel since 2002, will publish a collection of writings titled Unbroken: In Pursuit of Freedom for Palestine; the book comes out, at least in the United Kingdom, on November 5 (The Guardian).

• Musician Stormzy is supporting an initiative to make reading accessible to people who don't consider themselves readers (The Guardian).

• For the first time in almost a year, author Neil Gaiman has addressed the multiple sexual assault allegations against him, calling them "simply untrue" and part of a "smear campaign" against him (The Guardian).