Posted on March 12, 2026 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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Former First Lady Jill Biden will discuss her husband's decision not to seek re-election in a memoir called View from the East Wing, which comes out June 2 (The Associated Press).
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Emilie Connolly’s Vested Interests: Trusteeship and Native Dispossession in the United States, and Beth Lew-Williams’s John Doe Chinaman: A Forgotten History of Chinese Life Under American Racial Law have won this year's Bancroft Prize for books on diplomacy or the history of the Americas (The New York Times).
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The New York Times also has two literary obituaries: one for Stephen Koch, who died February 24 at age eighty-four, and one for Peter Schneider, who died March 3 at age eighty-five.
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Check out the cover of — and the design process for it — of Staying Still by Hieu Minh Nguyen (Electric Literature).
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