News of note for readers: May 1, 2024

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

• Paul Auster, author of the New York Trilogy and many other works, has died at the age of seventy-seven (Literary Hub).

• More than 170 books, many of them rare 19th-century early editions of Russian poet Alexander Pushkin's works, have disappeared from European libraries over the past two years (The New York Times).

• A new English translation of writer Franz Kafka's journals, in the centenary of his death, reveals some details that were previously omitted in other publications (The Guardian).

• An Iowa bookstore is expanding Good Books Young Troublemakers — its middle-grade book club focusing on potentially controversial books — into a nationwide organization (Publishers Weekly).

• And yay — nearly one-third of young adults strongly identify as readers (Book Riot).