News of note for readers: September 26, 2024

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

• The contributors to the next issue of the Erotic Review, which recently relaunched as a biannually published print edition, will be 80 percent female (The Guardian).

• The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides topped a list of the sixty most popular books of the past five years (Goodreads).

• An open letter from more than 500 publishers is calling for the Frankfurt Book Fair to cut ties with Israel (Literary Hub).