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

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

Publishing associations urge UK government to protect copyrighted works from AI

Salman Rushdie expected to testify at stabbing trial in January

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

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

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

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

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

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

Bloomsbury boasts record first-half profits after fantasy fiction boom

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

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

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

Chaucer goes digital as British Library makes works available online

Yuval Noah Harari backs critique of leftist ‘indifference’ to Hamas atrocities

Penguin Random House launches high schoolers’ award to combat book bans

Tian Yi wins 4thWrite prize for ‘fantastically original’ The Good Son

Salman Rushdie: allow writers to create characters outside of their own experience

Britney Spears criticises ‘dumb and silly’ press coverage of her memoir

‘Smug’ Jared Kushner praised DeSantis’s Florida during Covid, Cuomo aide says

‘The potential to undermine democracy’: European publishing trade bodies call for action on generative AI

Mitt Romney wanted to join Trump administration to ‘quell the chaos’, book says

‘Demand interestingness’: Thomas Heatherwick rails against boring buildings

Scholastic to separate books on race, gender and sexuality for book fairs

‘Steve Bannon is watching us closely’: Naomi Klein on populists, conspiracists and real-world activism

Serena Williams to publish memoir about life ‘on and off the court’

Black headteachers in UK say pupils crying out for ‘people who look like them’

Most libraries to provide ‘warm banks’ again this winter

Malaysia pulls out of Frankfurt book fair, blaming organisation’s pro-Israel stance

Bohdan Piasecki wins best performed poem in new Forward prize category

Palestinian voices ‘shut down’ at Frankfurt Book Fair, say authors

Reader, they lived there: campaign to save Brontës’ Bradford birthplace as it goes on sale

Louise Glück, Nobel prize-winning poet, dies at 80

Batley library book-takers urged to return and help save building

Authors join call for Baillie Gifford to divest from fossil fuel

Keith Giffen, comic book artist and writer, dies aged 70

‘Atrocious behaviour’: visitors accused of sabotaging Batley library £1 book sale

Author Arundhati Roy may face prosecution in India over 2010 speech

Imprisoned Uyghur academic named 2023 PEN international writer of courage

Spotify’s new audiobook streaming could have ‘devastating effect’, says Society of Authors

Salman Rushdie announces memoir, Knife, about being stabbed in 2022

Europe’s oldest student newspaper saved from closure

Sonic Youth co-founder Thurston Moore cancels book tour, revealing ‘debilitating’ health condition

Music, history and courageous journalism: Baillie Gifford prize shortlist announced

Sweden’s ‘queen of Noir’ Camilla Läckberg accused of using a ghostwriter

Anthology of poems by van drivers celebrates life on the road

Jon Fosse wins the 2023 Nobel prize in literature

A saint, a sinner and a sprog: Goldsmiths book prize shortlist announced

Bob Mortimer and India Knight among Wodehouse fiction prize shortlistees

Chinese author Can Xue favourite to win 2023 Nobel prize for literature

Ian McEwan criticises hiring of ‘sensitivity readers’ looking for offensive material in manuscripts

Paul Harding and Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah among National Book Award finalists

Shortlisted TS Eliot prize poets speak to a disrupted world

Celebrated Syrian author, poet and screenwriter Khaled Khalifa dies aged 59

Bobby Joseph becomes first person of colour appointed UK comics laureate

Michael Mansfield KC: ‘The two-party system is a straitjacket’