Posted on February 16, 2026 at 3:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek
Catch up quick with the bookish news of the past few days ... or take a deeper dive into each story. Your choice!
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Author Arundhati Roy announced that she will no longer participate in the 2026 Berlinale film festival, over the festival jury's nonresponse to a question about Gaza (Literary Hub).
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Historian Roy Medvedev, who wrote critically of the Soviet Union in such books as Let History Judge: The Origins and Consequences of Stalinism, died Friday at age one hundred (The New York Times).
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Changes in TikTok's ownership — and thus in what the algorithm is showing or suppressing — have some in the literary community wondering if BookTok is starting to decline in popularity (Romancing the Phone).
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In honor of American Girl's fortieth anniversary, author Fiona Davis is writing a (Mattel-authorized) novel about the character Samantha as an adult; Samantha: The Next Chapter comes out October 13 (People).
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Alice Hoffman is helping develop her novel Practical Magic into a stage musical, which is also noteworthy in that singer Norah Jones is also part of the adaptation team (Deadline).
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