Posted on December 4, 2025 at 8:58 AM 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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“Parasocial” has been chosen as Cambridge Dictionary's Word of the Year for 2025, while “rage bait” has been selected as the Oxford Word of the Year 2025.
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Celebrated playwright Tom Stoppard, who won awards for the play Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead and the screenplay for the movie Shakespeare In Love (among many other creations), died November 29 at age eighty-eight (Associated Press).
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R.F. Kuang, author of Katabasis, Yellowface, and Babel, has withdrawn from the Emirates Airline Festival of Literature in the United Arab Emirates, citing a call from the Palestinian Boycott, Divest, and Sanction National Committee; that group has underlined the UAE's link with atrocities in Sudan (Literary Hub).
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See the cover of Self-Portrait as the “i” in Florida by P. Scott Cunningham and learn about the design choices (Electric Literature).
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