Ward’s novel, Sing, Unburied, Sing, won her a second National Book Award, and Bill Clinton presented Scholastic's Dick Robinson with a lifetime achievement award.

 

The Rev. Canon Michael Hempel tied Paddington Bear's plight to that of Brexit-era refugees in a memorial service for author Michael Bond, who died in June at age 91.

 

A new English-language bookstore will open in Rome this month, and mobile reading and writing platform Sweek announces a new writing contest.