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How many of Barnes & Noble’s Best Books of the Year have you read so far?

Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. Here are the biggest headlines from last week. Persepolis author Marjane Satrapi dies at 56 Iranian French writer Marjane Satrapi dies at 56. The cause and location of his death have not been shared, but

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June 1 – 5, 2026

The best of literary internet today: in 1875, Thomas Mann was born. Sharon Blackie investigates fundamental power of fairy tales. | Lit Hub Criticism What do you do when your book details Civil War-era censorship? Censored by the US government? | Lit Hub Politics “Perhaps it would be appropriate to call it mysticism, but it

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