Posted on August 20, 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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Ukraine's book industry is calling for international help after Russian attacks this summer destroyed about 10 million books and much of the printing infrastructure (The Guardian).
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Push by Sapphire has been banned from all Utah public schools; that puts the total number of titles unavailable across the state at thirty-seven, with all but ten of those books written by women (Book Riot).
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Texas Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick held a press conference this week to threaten public schools that don't remove what he's calling "graphic books" (Book Riot).
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The Book Censor’s Library by Bothayna Al-Essa has been chosen as the winner of the third annual Insider Literary Prize, which is the nation's only prize that's judged by incarcerated people (People).
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The Martha's Vineyard home where Marc Brown wrote half of the Arthur children's books has sold for $6.4 million (People).
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A three-book anthology from author Clive Barker is now exclusively available through Kickstarter; the collection, called Library of the Dead, includes new and out-of-print stories (Variety).
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