Posted on May 18, 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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The entirety of the latest all-time top-100 books published in English has been posted (The Guardian).
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Ahead of Tuesday's announcement of the International Booker Prize winner, here's some speculation about each shortlisted title's chances of victory (The Guardian).
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Meanwhile, here are the finalists for the DAG Prize for Literature, which awards $20,000 to an early-career prose writer (Literary Hub).
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Scholars at Paris's Sorbonne University used artificial intelligence to write a new play in the style of acclaimed French dramatist Molière (The Guardian).
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In other news of classic writers, today is the anniversary of when James Joyce and Marcel Proust met for the first and only time (Literary Hub).
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