John Green is writing his first novel for adults. It's also his first novel in nearly a decade. “Hollywood, Ending” will be published Sept. 22. Penguin Random House imprint Dutton Books says the novel centers on two young actors and how their lives change through their roles in the biopic “Andy Warhol Never Gets Old.” The book is about celebrity and the attention economy, as well as love and loss, as Green says. In 2024, the author of young adult favorites “The Fault in Our Stars” and “Looking for Alaska” said he expected to be moving away from writing for that age group.

Len Deighton, a prolific writer whose tough, stylish spy thrillers featured on bestseller lists for decades, has died. He was 97. Deighton’s literary agent, Tim Bates, said he died Sunday. No cause of death was given. London-born Deighton had huge success in 1962 with his first novel, “The IPCRESS File.” The story of a secret agent confronted with duplicity and bureaucracy from his own side while investigating a Soviet kidnap ring, it went on to sell millions of copies and was adapted into a 1965 film starring Michael Caine.  His other thrillers included “Funeral in Berlin,” “Billion-Dollar Brain” and “Berlin Game.” Deighton also wrote nonfiction history books and several cookbooks that he illustrated himself.

German philosopher Jürgen Habermas has died at age 96. Habermas' work on communication, rationality and sociology made him one of the world’s most influential philosophers and a key intellectual figure in his native Germany. Habermas’ publisher Suhrkamp said that he died on Saturday in Starnberg near Munich. Habermas frequently weighed in on political matters over several decades. Habermas’ extensive writing crossed the boundaries of academic and philosophical disciplines. It provided a vision of modern society and social interaction. His best-known works included the two-volume “Theory of Communicative Action.”