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Tuesday, October 31, 2023

‘AI’ named most notable word of 2023 by Collins dictionary

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Chosen from a list that includes ‘greedflation’, ‘nepo baby’ and ‘deinfluencing’, use of term has quadrupled this year Continue reading... ...

Britons go map-crazy, with geographical games and books becoming bestsellers

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London tube game Metro Memory is a surprise hit, with geography books also finding favour with readers Continue reading...

Publishing associations urge UK government to protect copyrighted works from AI

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Statement asks government to help stop AI tools ‘using copyright-protected works with impunity’ Continue reading...
Monday, October 30, 2023

Salman Rushdie expected to testify at stabbing trial in January

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Alleged attacker Hadi Matar pleaded not guilty to attempted murder, following incident in Chautauqua, New York, that left Rushdie blind in o...
Sunday, October 29, 2023

Yeats’ play on sale for £125,000 – thanks to message from the dead

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A 1924 seance has solved the mystery surrounding a signed copy of the dramatist’s first play Continue reading...

Letters reveal the dispute that pushed poet Thomas Chatterton to the brink

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The romantic writer took his own life aged just 17 after a row with Horace Walpole Continue reading...
Friday, October 27, 2023

Hunt on for book containing Wilkie Collins’s criticism of friend Dickens

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Collins’s notes on his collaborator’s ‘weakest book’ and ‘astonishingly bad’ work were sold at auction in 1890 Continue reading...

‘Ha, ha, ha’: Mitt Romney laughs off Trump’s ‘total loser’ attack

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Utah senator calls former president a ‘whack job’ after Trump called book ‘much like him – boring, horrible and predictable’ Continue readi...
Thursday, October 26, 2023

David Shrigley turns 6,000 The Da Vinci Code novels into Nineteen Eighty-Four

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Artist creates new edition of Orwell classic after Swansea charity shop had its fill of Dan Brown bestseller Continue reading...

Labour’s Rachel Reeves denies apparent plagiarism over her new book

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Book on female economists has passages that appear to be lifted from Wikipedia and the Guardian, FT analysis finds Continue reading...

Bloomsbury boasts record first-half profits after fantasy fiction boom

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Publisher to double shareholder payout as demand grows for books by Sarah J Maas and Samantha Shannon Business live – latest updates Con...
Wednesday, October 25, 2023

Scholastic reverses decision to separate books on race, gender and sexuality

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After backlash, company will no longer separate catalog at school fairs, which allowed districts to opt out of diverse books Continue readi...

Most banned books in US prisons include Amy Schumer and Art of War

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Latest banned books list comes amid increase in type of books being banned from prison system, PEN America says Continue reading...

Trump made crude Oval Office remark about fate of Kurds in Syria, book says

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Ex-president interrupted briefing to ask why he should ‘give a fuck’ about Kurds amid US troop withdrawal, Adam Kinzinger writes Continue r...