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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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August 21’s literary world spans grief essays, debut fiction, Twain’s publishing history, and the inexhaustible argument over Phantom of the Opera.
Emily Nussbaum calls the Canadian Shakespeare festival series Slings & Arrows her all-time favorite show on The New Yorker’s Critics at Large podcast.
Callum Turner will star in a TV adaptation of William Gibson’s Neuromancer, targeting a 2027 release. The cyberpunk novel has resisted adaptation for decades.
NASA and Katalyst Space Technologies have abandoned their robotic mission to rescue the Swift gamma-ray observatory after attitude control failures grounded the Link satellite.
















































