Salman Rushdie Trial: Hadi Matar was convicted in federal court for terrorism-related charges tied to the 2022 stabbing that left Rushdie partially blind, with prosecutors linking the attack to Iran’s 1989 fatwa over “The Satanic Verses.” Publishing & Adaptations: David Nicholls’ “You Are Here” is getting a BBC/Starz series starring Claire Foy and Matthew Macfadyen, while Amazon Prime Video picks up Claudia Piñeiro’s “Catedrales,” shifting the story to Santiago. Literary Industry: The Booker Prize 2026 longlist adds Turkish-American debut “The Renovation” by Kenan Orhan, alongside big names like Marlon James and Elizabeth Strout. Reading Culture: A Florida college is being sued after firing an English literature professor for assigning a “political” short story, raising fresh First Amendment questions for classrooms. Online Literature Boom: China’s online literature export keeps climbing, with hundreds of millions of overseas readers and major TV/comic spin-offs. Book World Loss: Borderland author Benjamin Alire Sáenz died at 71, remembered for “Aristotle and Dante” and his new novel “When the World was Happy.” Poetry & Community: A new haiku/woodblock-themed submission call and ongoing poetry events keep the spotlight on small-press creativity.