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Search ArticlesTaiwan Travelogue translator Lin King is calling out publishing’s “relay translation” practices.
Translator and writer Lin King released a statement on Instagram on Tuesday laying out her claim of copyright infringement of her Booker-Prize-winning English translation of Taiwan Travelogue by Yáng Shuāng-Zǐ, originally written in Mandarin and titled Táiwān Màn Yóu Lù (《臺灣漫遊錄》).
One Night in Frankfurt: Scenes From the Incomparable Heinrich Maria Ledig-Rowohlt Translation Prize Dinner
Morgan Entrekin on One of His Favorite Nights at the Frankfurt Book Fair; With Speeches From Jo Lendle and Stephan Kleiner Forty years ago in October 1986 I attended my first Frankfurt Book Fair.
Can romance novels solve the straight man reading crisis?
Extra, extra. You’ve seen the headlines. Men—particularly straight men—have stopped reading fiction. This year saw the rise and fall of the performative lit-bro. And though history, crime, and self-help books still persuade a certain type, the most recent NEA survey found that a mere quarter of men picked up a book of fiction in 2025. Theories about the origins of this “crisis” span a gamut, with many pinning blame on the supply.
The Third Circuit finds that AI companies can’t use material with an original “creative spark.”
Last week the Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, which oversees the districts of Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and the Virgin Islands, upheld and further underlined a lower court ruling in the ongoing AI and copyright case of Thomson Reuters v. ROSS Intelligence Inc.
Lit Hub Daily: October 8, 2026
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET TODAY: In 1920, Frank Herbert is born. The decades-long friendship between Hannah Arendt and Mary McCarthy was defined by a “mix of intimacy and worldliness.” | Lit Hub Biography on being an Anishinaabe poet in a fiction writer’s world: “I write fiction with a poetic inflection because I have honed my poetry muscles over decades.” | Lit Hub Craft Get ready for this week’s Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers for fiction and nonfiction.
The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Nonfiction
For the week ending October 4, 2026 Here are this week’s Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers for fiction, based on sales in hundreds of independent bookstores nationwide, generously provided by the American Booksellers Association. Compiled, designed, and distributed by The Independent Publishers Caucus. Article continues after advertisement * 1. Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea: Journeys Through Ancient Literature by Emily Wilson (Liveright) 2.
Anne Carson has won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature.
Today, the Swedish Academy awarded the 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature to Canadian author Anne Carson, for “her bold and inventive oeuvre that in playful dialogue with the classical tradition has created new forms for contemporary literature.” The Academy’s permanent secretary called Carson with the news; she was in Iceland, where she was “listening to the wind.” Classic.
It Begins On the Page: How Relationships Between Readers and Writers Are Made
We don’t usually understand literature as a dialogue. Typically, when publishing professionals think of readers, they think they need to entice them to buy the book so they may have hours of pleasant or enriching cultural entertainment.
5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week
“Considering that both authors are innovators of highly consumable brain rot in different mediums, the book is an old-fashioned dud.” Our fivesome of fantastic reviews this week includes, Zain Khalid on Ayad Akhtar’s The Radiance, Franklin Schneider on MrBeast and James Patterson’s The Most Dangerous Games, Jason Mott on T. Geronimo Johnson’s The Occidental Book of the Dead, Sam Worley on Barbara Kingsolver’s Partita, and Joe Moran on Sarah Perry’s Death of an Ordinary Man.
Am I the Asshole For Ordering a Book at My Local Indie and Just... Not Picking It Up?
Kristen Arnett Answers Your Awkward Questions About Bad Bookish Behavior Hello again! Welcome back to the finest (and drunkest) corner of the internet, home of the darling and daring sensation known as Am I the Literary Asshole? If you’re a first time reader, we’re a bimonthly advice column that tackles all the literary gossip that’s fit to print (and let’s be honest, even some that isn’t). I’m your host, Kristen Arnett, and I’m certainly grateful to be here with you today.