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From Fady Joudah’s genocide elegy to a forgotten 1940 Fitzgerald rival, the week of Sept. 21–25, 2026 in books was dense, strange, and necessary.
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Amazon destroys physical books after scanning them for AI training. Plus: biogossip novels, Tommy Orange on identity, and a self-published mystery writer who beat the odds.
Alex Ullom’s *It Ends* joins a growing wave of Gen Z horror directors translating generational anxiety into cinema — and reshaping the genre in the process.
Paul Greengrass’s “The Uprising” stars Andrew Garfield in an 1381 peasant revolt drama — deleted posts suggest it may secretly be a Robin Hood origin story.
SpaceX is cutting Florida launch frequency for 2026 as Starship prep begins. California’s Vandenberg now leads. 165 Falcon 9 flights ran in 2025.
















































