- BBC to adapt Eleanor Catton’s award-sweeping novel, The Luminaries. (The Bookseller)
- The history of Cuban science fiction and its vision of the future. (The New Republic)
- Amazon to open 7,200-square-foot bookstore in Chicago. (Publishers Weekly)
- Halifax poet laureate Rebecca Thomas responds to cultural appropriation at a concert. (The Coast)
- Junot Diaz speaks to Piya Chattopadhyay about being “an outsider with a voice.” (Out in the Open)
- The Girl on the Train adaptation promises to be darker than the novel. (EW)
- Happy National Dog Day! A call for warnings if a pooch dies in a book. (Book Riot)
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