Jaipur Literature Festival Expansion: JLF USA and JLF Toronto will bring the festival to seven North American cities in 2026 (Sept 11–Oct 4), adding Los Angeles and Toronto to the existing lineup, with talks spanning AI, geopolitics, migration, climate, faith, entrepreneurship and more. Publishing & Culture in Spain: A Barcelona-based Filipino community launches a new short-story collection, Mosai-KO: Quince relatos del barrio de El Raval, at the Instituto Cervantes in Manila, spotlighting second-generation voices and diaspora life through El Raval. Literary History Spotlight: New material on Federico García Lorca’s final weeks—notes tied to Poeta en Nueva York and the 1936 execution anniversary—adds fresh context to Cruz y Raya-era publishing and the poet’s last messages. Cross-border Borders & Ceuta: Commentary revisits Juan Goytisolo’s work as Ceuta headlines return, arguing against binary “Spain vs Morocco” framing and urging a more nuanced read of identities and responsibilities. Film Adaptation from Spanish Books: Prime Video’s Drawn Together is confirmed as a film adaptation of Mercedes Ron’s Enfrentados duology, bringing her novels to screen with a romance-and-threat plot set partly in Spain. Climate-Change Denial in the Spotlight: A new essay uses the ballet metaphor of the “grand jeté” to describe how denialists pivot from disbelief to resignation as Europe’s heat and extreme weather intensify.