Posted on August 21, 2025 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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Sonallah Ibrahim, whose novels, beginning with That Smell, depicted the repressive nature of various Egyptian regimes, died August 13 at age eighty-eight (The New York Times).
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R.F. Kuang’s next novel, Katabasis, won't be released until next week, but it already has a TV version in the works (Variety).
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Read the essay "Catcalls" from Jacob Tobia's upcoming collection, Before They Were Men, which, like Katabasis, comes out August 26 (Electric Literature).
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Emily Martin shares the sequels she's most excited to see in 2026 (Book Riot).
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The Beatles Anthology is receiving a twenty-fifth anniversary edition, to be released October 14 (The New York Times).
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In other updates, literally, Kelly Jensen analyzes the cover design makeovers of some recent YA books (Book Riot).
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