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Kai Bird, author of American Prometheus, says technology is ‘too dangerous to gamble with’ and supports senator’s attempt to bar itA biographer whose Pulitzer prize-winning book inspired the new movie Oppenheimer has expressed support for a US senator’…
Board finds memoir by non-binary writer Maia Kobabe ‘appropriate for its intended audience’ following an appealFollow our Australia news live blog for the latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastAustralia’…
Publisher of Welcome to Sex by Dr Melissa Kang and Yumi Stynes defends book after conservative campaigners claim it is ‘teaching sex to children’Follow our Australia news live blog for the latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free a…
Records from the National Archive reveal the cut-throat world of British poetry, and the politics behind selecting candidatesSir John Betjeman was dismissed as a “songster of tennis lawns and cathedral cloisters” evoking an “aroma of lavender and faint…
Former president writes open letter to American librarians and appears in TikTok video decrying rightwing censorship pushIn an open letter to American librarians, Barack Obama has criticised “profoundly misguided” rightwing efforts to ban books from li…
A former star soccer player with Iran’s Esteghlal FC, Mojtaba Jabbari, has opened a bookstore in an upscale neighborhood in the Iranian capital, Tehran.
Unflinchingly depicting her battles with depression, Zoe Thorogood, a 24-year-old from Bradford, has scooped most nominations for this week’s Eisner AwardsShe’s young, she’s talented, and she’s being heralded as a future star of her industry – and yet …
Marcel Pagnol based his famous movies on a Provencal manor he’d known as a child. Now his legacy is at risk, says his grandsonIn 1941 the French novelist, playwright and film-maker Marcel Pagnol bought a chateau in a Provençal valley outside Marseille …
British Library uses new technique to uncover passages of Camden’s Annals, the first official account of Elizabeth’s reignIt was the first official account of Elizabeth I’s reign, one of the most valuable sources on early modern Britain, commissioned b…
Heartstopper by Alice Oseman was on shelves for young people and did not have closed packaging as required by controversial lawA government office in Hungary has levied a hefty fine against a national bookseller over a LGBTQ+ graphic novel series, sayi…