Posted on February 12, 2026 at 12:00 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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A Hachette imprint is publishing a book by conservative Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, who wrote the majority opinion in Mahmoud v. Taylor — a case that will (and likely already has) further empowered book banners; Hachette is, at the same time, dedicating its website to speaking against book bans and encouraging purchases of targeted books ... including one at the center of Mahmoud v. Taylor (Literary Hub).
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Cees Nooteboom, known for his novels and travel writing as well as his translations of others' works, died Wednesday at age ninety-two (The Guardian).
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A TV adaptation of Nobel-winning author Orhan Pamuk's novel The Museum of Innocence that meets his standards is finally done and will launch Friday on Netflix (The New York Times).
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AI company Anthropic didn't just scan digital copies of books that it pirated; the company also spent tens of millions of dollars buying used books that it could then slice up ... and use as a loophole in legal arguments (Literary Hub).
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