Posted on September 17, 2025 at 1:02 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek
Catch up quick with the politics-adjacent bookish articles of the past few days.
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Federal job cuts and military presence in Washington, DC, have resulted in a 60 percent slump in sales at one indie bookstore in the nation's capitol, and industry reports say it's not alone; Loyalty Bookstore's owner also says nonprofits and other institutions that could support it are holding back out of fear of political retaliation (NBC).
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Sally Rooney, Annie Ernaux, Viet Thanh Nguyen, and Abdulrazak Gurnah are among the twenty authors urging French President Emmanuel Macron to restart a program that, until its suspension in August, had allowed France to evacuate writers and artists from Gaza (The Guardian).
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Donald Trump’s defamation lawsuit against The New York Times specifically names the book Lucky Loser: How Donald Trump Squandered His Father’s Fortune and Created the Illusion of Success, written by two NYT journalists; publisher Penguin Random House says it stands by the book and its authors (The Associated Press).
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