Publishing & Culture Politics: More than 350 cultural figures sign a petition defending Jewish-Argentinian novelist Ariana Harwicz after Spain’s Cultur Alh festival in Granada rescinded her invitation over her Israel views, with organizers asked to explain and offer redress. Publishing & Industry at Frankfurt: Greece announces an expanded publishing program for Frankfurt Book Fair 2026, including a Greek National Pavilion hub and five new English “Books from Greece” catalogs (fiction, non-fiction, poetry, graphic novels, children). Online Book/Travel Fraud: Consumer group Which? accuses Booking.com of ignoring fake listings after tourists were sent to Wetherspoons pubs in London, including “Apartments near Big Ben” and “The Liberty Bounds,” with Booking.com suspending bookings at the targeted properties. Books & Scholarship Loss: Literary scholar Lenora D. Wolfgang, a French medieval poetry translator and researcher at Lehigh University, dies at 91. Literary Criticism: A new monograph on Lynne Ramsay’s film “Morvern Callar” links aesthetics, class and gender through the story’s working-class Scottish roots.