Posted on November 5, 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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The Rouse by China Miéville has won the Goldsmiths Prize, which honors a novel that "breaks the mould or extends the possibilities of the novel form"; at 1,264 pages, it's the longest book ever to receive the award (The Guardian).
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Alexander: God, King, Man by Edmund Richardson has received the Baillie Gifford Prize, which goes to works of nonfiction (The Associated Press).
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Check out the cover of — and the design choices behind — Shamewreck by Peggy Shinner, which will be published February 9 (Electric Literature).
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Journalist, author, and broadcaster Simon Winchester — best known for The Professor and the Madman, about the creation of the Oxford English Dictionary — died Tuesday at age eighty-two (The New York Times).
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Senji Kuroi, author of twenty-five novels and novellas including Life in the Cul-De-Sac and Curtain Call, dozens of short stories, and numerous essay collections, died October 12 at age ninety-four (The New York Times).
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