The New York Book Festival

09/04/2026

"Yadav’s account of growing up in a flood-prone village on the banks of the Ganges, sleeping on wooden planks above rising floodwater and twice being pulled from the current as a small child, is not the kind of origin story you expect from a business memoir, and that is what makes it so effective. He turns those early chapters into a quiet metaphor that carries through the rest of the book: that instability early in life can become the very training ground for resilience later. By the time he describes arriving in America with only fifteen dollars in his pocket, the reader already understands what kind of grit that moment required."

Dr. Kamal "Doc" Yadav’s Creating Generational Prosperity is a memoir that is part immigrant success story, part family chronicle and part practical philosophy of life. Yadav's account of growing up in a flood-prone village on the banks of the Ganges, sleeping on wooden planks above rising floodwat...

09/04/2026

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08/26/2026

"California Gov. Gavin Newsom and First Partner Jennifer Siebel Newsom called Parton “larger than life” and praised her work as a singer-songwriter, actress and philanthropist.
They highlighted Parton’s support for early literacy, communities of color and LGBTQ people, including efforts through the Dollywood Foundation to fight the spread of HIV and AIDS. They also noted that her Imagination Library has brought free books to “tens of thousands right here in California.”"

Celebrities, political leaders and fans are remembering Dolly Parton as U.S. flags are lowered nationwide in her honor.

08/26/2026

"August became inspired to write Wolf’s Belly as he always wondered what was happening to Little Red Riding Hood and her Grandmother inside the animal’s gastrointestinal tract. Ultimately in the fable, they are cut out. In Wolf’s Belly, Little Red Riding Hood and Grandmother find themselves in a magical void with other fairytale characters that the wolf has gobbled up, including the Boy who Cried Wolf and a fourth Little Pig. Together, they must find a way to escape. The project is being conceived for all audiences, per sources."

Sony won a bidding war for John August's graphic novel 'Wolf's Belly' which Alfonso Cuarón will produce.

08/25/2026

"Now that their machinery could produce volume, publishers needed ways to sell at scale, to build the modern phenomenon of the best-seller. The problem: In 1859, only 1,090 bookstores dotted America. By 1914, there were still only 3,501. So if readers couldn’t find books, books had to find their readers. For certain authors and publishers, including Twain, that was accomplished through subscription publishing, with door-to-door canvassers taking orders for books before they were printed. Until the end of the nineteenth century, three quarters of books in the U.S. were sold this way."

In the history of the invention of the typesetting machine and the consequent birth of mass media, Mark Twain is the Zelig of our tale, returning frequently as a typesetter in his brother’s ratty n…

08/25/2026

"It’s easy to envision a future where AI dependency leads to intellectual conformity and the erosion of critical thinking. Researchers are already documenting these effects, which threaten to render the hard work of wrestling with ideas a lost art.
This is why I think it’s critical for educators to confront AI head-on. The key, I believe, is teaching students to distinguish AI’s pattern recognition skills from its inability to daydream, inhabit human perspectives and authentically express itself."

Educators can confront AI head on by distinguishing its pattern-recognition skills from its inability to daydream, embody other people and authentically express itself.

08/19/2026

"“With the 30th anniversary of Diana’s tragic death on the skyline, I’ve been inundated yet again with requests for interviews about my sister,” Spencer told The Guardian. “This has convinced me to write down my own thoughts and memories, once and for all, rather than having the discomfort of again reading the opinions of others, many of which are based on untruths that have become accepted over time.”"

The late princess’ brother will pay tribute to her in ‘Swan Song.’

08/19/2026

Celebrate the life and career of Pullitzer Prize-winning poet Mary Oliver!

Celebrate the life and career of Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Mary Oliver.

08/12/2026

"Author Amy B. Scher lost her dad five days before her cousin Pam was murdered. Her upcoming novel was born out of her need to process her grief."

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Author Amy B. Scher lost her dad five days before her cousin Pam was murdered. Her upcoming novel was born out of her need to process her grief.

08/12/2026

"Subrahmanyam moves fluidly among the intellectual and academic cultures of India, Europe, Britain and the United States, where he is a professor of history and social sciences at the University of California, Los Angeles. Much of his work explores the interactions and exchanges between the European empires and India across the centuries. His best-known books include The Portuguese Empire in Asia, 1500–1700 (1993); The Career and Legend of Vasco da Gama (1998); and Europe’s India: Words, People, Empires, 1500–1800 (2017). Alongside his scholarly work, Subrahmanyam is one of the finest essayists of his generation. His book Connected History (2022) collects some of his articles on Indian literature and history, many of which originally appeared in the London Review of Books."

‘I understand that there is a temptation to bring everything in India, whether it’s literature, music or art, around to its relationship to nationalism. But as my friends in the art world have always taught me, that is surely impoverished as an analysis.’Granta interviews Sanjay Subrahmanyam.