Posted on February 24, 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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Susie Dumond reflects on the legacy and influence of Elizabeth Gilbert's Eat, Pray, Love, twenty years after the memoir was first published (Book Riot).
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See which thirteen books are on the longlist for the International Booker Prize, which is celebrating its tenth anniversary this year (The Guardian).
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An expert in conservation history has concluded that the Nazi regime used the organizational work of bookbinders and restorers in support of their efforts to persecute and kill those they deemed impure (The New York Times).
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Essayist Edward Hoagland, who skillfully wove the natural world with his own personal experiences, died February 17 at age ninety-three (The New York Times).
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