In this week's issue:

- A court in Oran sentences Kamel Daoud in absentia to three years in prison for his Prix Goncourt novel — reportedly the first time Algeria's post-civil war Charter has ever been applied to a work of fiction

- 308 authors including Leïla Slimani and Emmanuel Carrère sign a public letter demanding a "conscience clause" after Bolloré's shadow falls over Éditions Grasset

- J.H. Prynne, widely described as potentially the greatest English-language poet since Milton, dies at 8