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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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Willy Chavarria showed his spring 2027 collection at the French Communist Party’s Paris HQ, citing government’s influence on daily life.
Two Max Planck papers vanished from a scientific journal with no real explanation. Historians at the University of Quebec are now asking why.
From Shohreh Laici on war to Colson Whitehead’s formal restlessness, a week in books that refused easy resolution.
Will Mackin’s “Pig Lab” in The New Yorker opens with soldier Ted Waters losing his leg to a bomb disguised as a guardrail outside Marjah. A close read.
















































