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State-sponsored censorship week (This week in books)

September 19, 2025 by Nathan Bransford

This week! Books! I’m back, and luckily nothing at all happened while I was away (okay everything happened while I was away). Lots and lots of links this week! Let’s get to it. 2026 We Need Diverse Books Mentorship Program Application – Applications are now open for We Need Diverse Books’ terrific mentorship program for […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: A.I., Anne R. Allen, Censorship, Charlie Jane Anders, Copyright, Curtis Brown Ltd., Donald Trump, Dorian Lynskey, Ed Nawotka, Elaine R. Frieman, Fran Hoepfner, Genocide, Jimmy Kimmel, Jonny Geller, Kate McKean, Kristen Weber, Lee Child, Penguin Random House, Pooja Salhotra, Robert Lee Brewer, Russ Buettner, Scams, Sophia Stewart, Susanne Craig, Taylor Lorenz, Victoria Strauss, We Need Diverse Books

Bloomsbury on the rise (This week in books)

June 13, 2025 by Nathan Bransford

This week! Books! Some things are bigger than books and writing, and this feels like one of those weeks. The photos and videos out of the Los Angeles area are lurid and unsettling, no matter your political vantage point, and I guess that’s kind of the point in our eyeballs-are-money-and-power era. Even a mile away […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: Ben Sisario, Bloomsbury, Brian Wilson, Claire Kirch, Clay Risen, Ellen Oh, Frederick Forsyth, Julia F Christensen, Kate McKean, Sarah Landenwich, Sophia Stewart, We Need Diverse Books, Yarimar Bonilla

A devastating censorship ruling (This week in books)

May 30, 2025 by Nathan Bransford

The last few weeks! Books! I’m back! Though I’m quite busy catching up, and extraordinarily jet-lagged. Today’s collection of links will be presented mainly in list format, but there are lots of good ones. Enjoy! Appeals Court Reverses Ruling in Texas Book Ban Case – Nathalie op de Beeck, Publishers Weekly – An extremely disappointing […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: Amelia Nierenberg, Benjamin Davis, Chanda A. Bell, Charlie Warzel, Damon Beres, Drew Broussard, James D. Walsh, Kate McKean, Kazuo Ishiguro, Ken Whyte, Kyle Chayka, Leigh Stein, Lincoln Michel, Lucy Feldman, Michiko Kakutani, Nathalie op de Beeck, Pulitzer Prize, Sam Spratford, Sarah Chauncey, Sophia Stewart, Taylor Lorenz, Victor Tangermann

This Year in Books (2024)

December 20, 2024 by Nathan Bransford

This year! Books! If last year’s edition of This Year in Books was characterized by a cloudy crystal ball as we seemed on the precipice of change, 2024 was a year when some of those swirling elements came into focus. And… Not great, Bob! Now, let me be clear: if you zoom out, the publishing […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: A.I., Andrew Dalton, Angelina King, Barnes & Noble, Censorship, Dan Blank, Emily Gould, Kathleen Schmidt, Matt Dorfman, Nicole Brockbank, Nicole Sperling, Noam Scheiber, publishing industry, Sophia Stewart, Succession

Han Kang wins the Nobel in literature (This week in books)

October 11, 2024 by Nathan Bransford

This week! Books! I collected a whole load of links over the past few weeks, so many that I am going to revert to providing the links with limited commentary. (Do you actually prefer this approach? Should I do this more? Let me know in the comments!) Han Kang Is Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: A.I., Alex Marshall, Alexandra Alter, Betsy Lerner, Cal Newport, Choe Sang-Hun, Dan Blank, Han Kang, Hope Corrigan, Joshua Rothman, Julia Eskins, Justine Clay, Ken Whyte, Lincoln Michel, Marisa Charpentier, Motoko Rich, National Book Awards, Nobel Prize, R.L.Stine, Ryu Spaeth, Shannon Maughan, Sophia Stewart, Tom Rachman

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