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08/10/2026

The 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature is awarded to the Canadian author Anne Carson, “for her bold and inventive oeuvre that, in playful dialogue with the classical tradition, has created new forms for contemporary literature.”

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The 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature is awarded to the Canadian author Anne Carson, “for her bold and inventive oeuvre that, in playful dialogue with the classical tradition, has created new forms for contemporary literature.”

Anne Carson was born in 1950 in Toronto, Canada. In 1981, she published her doctoral thesis in Classics entitled ‘Odi et Amo Ergo Sum’, and has, throughout her entire career, combined poetry writing with translation work and teaching at various universities. Almost all her literary production has centred upon the intersection between the philologist’s obsession with words and the poet’s desire for new meaning. She has herself identified the etymology of words as the starting point for all her work. Her translations from Classical Greek may be regarded as independent works in their own right. Among these is her interpretation of Sappho’s poem fragments, ‘If Not, Winter’ (2002), along with tragedies such as Sophocles’s ‘Electra’ (2001) and ‘Antigone’ (2015) and Euripides’s ‘Bakkhai’ (2015).

In the 1990s, Carson published a series of notable works. Among these is ‘The Glass Essay’ in ‘Glass, Irony, and God’ (1995), which demonstrates the potential of the long poem where genre boundaries are seen to blur.

The same decade saw the publication of another work, often heralded as Carson’s greatest, entitled ‘Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse’ (1998). This demonstrates her eminent ability to actualise the classical literary tradition. With a precise feel for contemporary idioms and experiences, she takes as her starting point poem fragments by the sixth century BC Greek poet Stesichoros concerning the winged red monster Geryon.

Throughout her entire authorship, Carson with a light touch explores the possibilities of writing, a process by which the literary sketch has become of particular value to her. Bearing witness to this is ‘Float’ (2016), a work consisting of twenty-two chapbooks on different subjects, capable of being read in any order. Another is ‘Wrong Norma’ from 2024, a diverse combination of texts with a strongly performative aspect in which Carson crosses over into various artistic and academic fields. Her collaborations with visual artists and choreographers and with opera and theatre directors demonstrate the freedom with which she relates to literary expectations and rule systems. It is this that lies behind the outstanding importance her work since the 1990s has had for the international art and literature scene.

Anders Olsson
Chair of the Nobel Committee

Learn more about the 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature: https://bit.ly/4hnkhNO

08/10/2026

A campy, cosy horror series about a manager of a haunted campground just trying to get through the season, perfect for fans of Grady Hendrix, Rachel Harrison, and Welcome to Night Vale 🏕️

Every year, campground manager Kate sends out a pamphlet titled “How to Survive Your Camping Experience.” In it is a list of rules to help campers have an enjoyable experience and hopefully survive any encounters with the campground’s… other… inhabitants.

With the land turning ancient, it is no longer just the campers that are in danger. Kate is the key to ascension and every inhuman entity is out for her blood. All the lesser creatures are making attempts on her life, from the hammock monster to the gummy bears. Kate isn't willing to let her land go without a fight. If these creatures are going to hunt her, then she'll hunt them in turn and eradicate everything from her land that cannot coexist with humanity. With the help of both her inhuman and human allies, it looks like Kate might actually have a chance at controlling her land. But ancient land attracts ancient things, and the town has a bad history with ancient creatures.

A new entity has come to the campground, bearing an old grudge against one of the inhabitants. Its malevolent designs will put the entire land at risk - unless Kate can stop it.

07/10/2026

From the award-winning author of These Truths comes WE THE PEOPLE, a stunning new history of the U.S. Constitution, for a troubling new era.

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✨ WINNER OF THE 2026 PULITZER PRIZE FOR HISTORY

The U.S. Constitution is among the oldest constitutions in the world but also one of the most difficult to amend. Jill Lepore, Harvard professor of history and law, explains why in WE THE PEOPLE, the most original history of the Constitution in decades―and an essential companion to her landmark history of the United States, THESE TRUTHS.

Arriving on the occasion of the 250th anniversary of the nation’s founding―the anniversary, too, of the first state constitutions―WE THE PEOPLE offers a wholly new history of the Constitution. “One of the Constitution’s founding purposes was to prevent change,” Lepore writes. “Another was to allow for change without violence.” Relying on the extraordinary database she has assembled at the Amendments Project, Lepore recounts centuries of attempts, mostly by ordinary Americans, to realize the promise of the Constitution. Yet nearly all those efforts have failed. Although nearly twelve thousand amendments have been introduced in Congress since 1789, and thousands more have been proposed outside its doors, only twenty-seven have ever been ratified. More troubling, the Constitution has not been meaningfully amended since 1971. Without recourse to amendment, she argues, the risk of political violence rises. So does the risk of constitutional change by presidential or judicial fiat.

Challenging both the Supreme Court’s monopoly on constitutional interpretation and the flawed theory of “originalism,” Lepore contends in this “gripping and unfamiliar story of our own past” that the philosophy of amendment is foundational to American constitutionalism. The framers never intended for the Constitution to be preserved, like a butterfly, under glass, Lepore argues, but expected that future generations would be forever tinkering with it, hoping to mend America by amending its Constitution through an orderly deliberative and democratic process.

Lepore’s remarkable history seeks, too, to rekindle a sense of constitutional possibility. Congressman Jamie Raskin writes that Lepore “has thrown us a lifeline, a way of seeing the Constitution neither as an authoritarian straitjacket nor a foolproof magic amulet but as the arena of fierce, logical, passionate, and often deadly struggle for a more perfect union.” At a time when the Constitution’s vulnerability is all too evident, and the risk of political violence all too real, WE THE PEOPLE, with its shimmering prose and pioneering research, hints at the prospects for a better constitutional future, an amended America.

07/10/2026

The UK’s most prestigious literary quarterly brings you prize-winning new fiction, reportage, memoir, poetry and photography from debut writers and established voices.

Stop all the clocks: GRANTA - DEAD FRIENDS brings vital figures from one’s past momentarily back into focus. Eschewing dewy-eyed remembrances and dry obituaries, features include Fernanda Eberstadt on Andy Warhol, Aatish Taseer on V.S. Naipaul, Tao Lin on Giancarlo DiTrapano, Michel Houellebecq on Benoît Duteurtre, William Atkins on a new method to dispose of mortal remains, an interview with Renata Adler, as well as new fiction from Marlen Haushofer, Yasmina Reza and Gary Indiana, among others.

07/10/2026

A “provocative and seductive debut” of desire and doubleness that follows the life of a young Palestinian American woman caught between cultural, religious, and sexual identities as she endeavors to lead an authentic life (O, The Oprah Magazine).

On a hot day in Bethlehem, a 12–year–old Palestinian–American girl is yelled at by a group of men outside the Church of the Nativity. She has exposed her legs in a biblical city, an act they deem forbidden, and their judgement will echo on through her adolescence. When our narrator finally admits to her mother that she is q***r, her mother’s response only intensifies a sense of shame: “You exist too much,” she tells her daughter.

Told in vignettes that flash between the U.S. and the Middle East—from New York to Jordan, Lebanon, and Palestine—Zaina Arafat’s debut novel traces her protagonist’s progress from blushing teen to sought–after DJ and aspiring writer. In Brooklyn, she moves into an apartment with her first serious girlfriend and tries to content herself with their comfortable relationship. But soon her longings, so closely hidden during her teenage years, explode out into reckless romantic encounters and obsessions with other people. Her desire to thwart her own destructive impulses will eventually lead her to The Ledge, an unconventional treatment center that identifies her affliction as “love addiction.” In this strange, enclosed society she will start to consider the unnerving similarities between her own internal traumas and divisions and those of the places that have formed her.

Opening up the fantasies and desires of one young woman caught between cultural, religious, and sexual identities, YOU EXIST TOO MUCH is a captivating story charting two of our most intense longings—for love, and a place to call home.

🔹 “A dizzying tour of love addiction, rehab, homophobia, betrayal, obsession and the aching need for a mother’s unconditional love. At different times throughout, you’ll find the protagonist needy, reckless and selfish but also smart, intuitive and trapped between two cultures - because as we all know, humans are nothing if not complicated. Roxane [Gay] is right: this deserves five stars.” (Stylist)

🔸 “The first-person narrator has a distinctive voice and is a magnetic presence on the page; the scenes with her mother are electric . . . A nuanced, sparky debut.” (The Observer)

06/10/2026

Dark academia meets occult magic in DEAD BEAT, the highly anticipated, explosive conclusion to the Ninth House Trilogy from bestselling author Leigh Bardugo 🦉🌟

Hell is empty and all the devils are here…

Alex Stern made it to hell and back more than once, but this time she left the door open behind her. Demons are creeping through the streets of New Haven and the Yale campus, feeding on the souls of the living, terrifying the dead. Alex and her allies can hunt them, but it’s only a matter of time before the gates to the underworld open and they face a war they cannot win. To stop it, they’ll have to reach deep into the secrets of Yale and its societies, and discover the truth hidden in Alex’s own blood.

While she struggles to hold onto the dream of a future Yale once offered, Alex must contend with the machinations of a corrupt Lethe Board and a deadly vampire with his own connection to the societies. But for the first time in her life, she won’t have to face the fight alone. Dawes, Turner, Mercy, and even Tripp will have a role to play, none more so than Alex’s mentor Darlington, the golden boy who lived so long in her head, now back in the flesh and cursed with dangerous powers of his own. Hell itself is stalking the delegates of Lethe House, and they’re all about to learn that demons don’t play by human rules.

🌟 “Sharp writing, vivid characters, and puzzle box plotting bring the trilogy to a ringing conclusion.” (Kirkus, starred review)

06/10/2026

For generations, artists have taken inspiration from the stars and their influence on our lives. Planets, satellites, night skies, zodiac signs and astrological symbols have all found their way into art by everyone from Botticelli to Warhol.

This book looks at more than 70 masterpieces to offer insight into the extraordinary ways that art, astronomy, astrology and mythology have collided to create stunning works that can tell us about the universe and our place in it.

Discover how astrology has been depicted in art for centuries, how artists use the zodiac to spark creativity, and how to decode the astrological symbols found in some of our greatest art.

Featuring works by Hilma af Klint, Andy Warhol, Alphonse Mucha, Albrecht Dürer, Salvador Dali, Ernest Procter, Botticelli, Bettye Saar, Fransisco Goya, Jan Brueghel the Younger, Man Ray, David Shrigley, Evelyn de Morgan, Paul Klee, Max Ernst, Leonora Carrington and Joan Miro.

05/10/2026

ENSH*TTIFICATION: It’s not just you―the internet sucks now. It’s been ens**ttified. That was no accident, and it’s not gonna fix itself. Here’s how we’ll disens**ttify it so we can have a new, good internet.

WINNER OF THE 2026 LOCUS AWARD FOR NONFICTION

We are all living through the Ens**ttocene―the Great Ens**ttening―a time in which the services that matter to us, that we rely on, are being turned into giant piles of s**t. It’s frustrating. Demoralizing. Even terrifying.

The once-glorious internet has degenerated into “platforms” that rose to dominance because they delivered convenient and delightful services efficiently and reliably. But once we were locked in to those services, the tech bosses turned on us, relying on our dependency to keep us using the services even as they got worse and worse. The platform bosses did the same to the companies that had flocked to their services to sell stuff to us. Once we were all locked in―businesses and users―the tech companies stripped out all utility, save the bare minimum needed to stave off total collapse.

In ENSH*TTIFICATION, Cory Doctorow shows us where it comes from: not the iron laws of economics, or the great forces of history, but specific policy choices made by powerful people who ignored every warning about the consequences of those choices. These are choices that can be undone. Ens**ttification is a Big Tech disassembly manual, a road map for the seizure of the means of computation. It is a diagnosis, and it is a cure.

🛜 “ENSH*TTIFICATION explains the exploitation that changed the internet and our lives. Doctorow gives us the word to describe how these companies immiserate humanity on a planetary scale.” (Edward Snowden)

🛜 “Punchy, pungent, and utterly compelling. ENSH*TTIFICATION will change the way you see the world, and just might change the world itself. You simply must read it.” (Tim Harford)

🛜 “Big Tech does not just plunder your data. It does not merely rob you of your privacy. It does something far, far worse. You know it. You feel it. But you won’t be able to put your finger on it until you have read ENSH*TTIFICATION. Then you will know and, more important, you will stand a better chance of resisting.” (Yanis Varoufakis)

05/10/2026

Now appearing in English more than twenty years after its original publication, Mathias Enard’s debut novel is a timeless study of how extreme violence corrodes the soul, tracking the convulsions of a brutalised mind in spare, unflinching prose. Translated by Charlotte Mandell.

In an unnamed city completely torn apart by civil war, a teenage sniper has only one goal: to fire the perfect shot. He sublimates himself into his weapon, controls his breath, stays serenely calm, and listens to his body and the beat of his heart. Lying in wait on rooftops, he shoots at civilians while his mentally ill mother cowers in their apartment. But the violence eats away at any sense of morality as he kills indiscriminately, for the sake of killing itself. His routine is eventually disrupted by the arrival of Myrna, a fifteen-year-old girl hired to care for his mother, and his increasingly disturbing obsession with Myrna threatens to push them all over the brink.

This unrelenting book, whose harrowing urgency belies its piercing lyricism, exposes the disastrous effects of extreme violence on society.

“Mathias Enard is one of the best contemporary French writers, and his works – ambitious, erudite, multifaceted, surprising and unconventional – are always worth reading, because they always strike a perfect balance between the best that literature can offer: pleasure and knowledge.” (Javier Cercas)

🔹 “Every novel by Mathias Enard reminds me of the reasons why I read fiction. He is ambitious, erudite, full of life, and a wonderful stylist to boot. He is one of the great novelists of our time.” (Juan Gabriel Vásquez)

🔹 “All of Enard’s books share the hope of transposing prose into the empyrean of pure sound, where words can never correspond to stable meanings. He’s the composer of a discomposing age.” (Joshua Cohen)

02/10/2026

Pirates and artists, fractured timelines and secret societies, sprawling, visceral epics and exquisite puzzle-box plotting—October’s arrivals are here! 🍂🍁

Featuring more than 600 awe-inspiring images, ARK: A VISUAL TREASURY OF EARTH’S LIVING WONDERS is a celebration of the interconnectedness of nature which we have the power to protect; THE DISAPPEARERS is a tour de force which only Marlon James could have written—an unflinching portrait of hatred and its far-reaching consequences; dark academia meets occult magic in DEAD BEAT, the explosive conclusion to Leigh Bardugo’s Ninth House trilogy; MAGICK tells the visual story of the magical arts, from personal and community-based folk magic to ceremonial magic, illusionists, and the paranormal; Emily St. John Mandel’s EXIT PARTY is an elegant, gracefully written crime story with sci-fi shadings of crimes committed and loves lost across worlds and decades; FREDDIE MERCURY: A LIFE IN LYRICS is the definitive creative record of one of the greatest songwriters of all time, accompanied by memories, anecdotes, and photographs, many of which have never been published before; Victoria Aveyard’s TEMPEST is a beautifully crafted high-seas rollercoaster of a novel, rich with complex characters and drenched in intrigue; translated into English for the first time, Claire Berest’s award-winning novel is about the colourful and captivating life of Frida Kahlo; THE WIZARD’S GUIDE TO MAGICAL EXPERIMENTS sparks wonder and curiosity with 40 engaging real-life science experiments for wizards-in-training to try at home!

And of course, beautiful editions featuring sprayed edges and full-colour illustrated endpapers: the next ten VINTAGE COLLECTOR’S CLASSICS are here—from shipwrecks and sea adventures to enchanted worlds, fairy tales and futures stranger than fiction; R. F. Kuang’s BABEL and Andy Weir’s THE MARTIAN are now available in stunning deluxe hardback editions―the definitive way to own these memorable books!