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Shadow chancellor says she holds her ‘hands up’ in response to FT piece on seemingly copied passages in work on female economistsRachel Reeves has said she holds her hands up and acknowledges making mistakes in her new book about female economists afte…
Publisher to double shareholder payout as demand grows for books by Sarah J Maas and Samantha ShannonBusiness live – latest updatesThe book publisher Bloomsbury has hit record profits in the first half of the year thanks in part to a boom in fantasy fi…
After backlash, company will no longer separate catalog at school fairs, which allowed districts to opt out of diverse booksAfter facing backlash, Scholastic has reversed course on its controversial decision to separate certain book titles in school fa…
Latest banned books list comes amid increase in type of books being banned from prison system, PEN America saysThe literary advocacy group PEN America has released a list of the most banned or restricted books in the US prison system, and the rundown c…
Ex-president interrupted briefing to ask why he should ‘give a fuck’ about Kurds amid US troop withdrawal, Adam Kinzinger writesDonald Trump surprised his own national security adviser and a group of Republican congressmen and women when he interrupted…
Corinne Purtill reports via Phys.Org: Before epilepsy was understood to be a neurological condition, people believed it was caused by the moon, or by phlegm in the brain. They condemned seizures as evidence of witchcraft or demonic possession, and kill…
Library photographs and uploads its entire collection of manuscripts by author of The Canterbury Tales The entire collection of Geoffrey Chaucer’s works held by the British Library is being made available in digital format after the completion of a tw…
Exclusive: Sapiens author among 90 signatories to statement of dismay at ‘extreme moral insensitivity’Israel and Hamas at war – live updatesThe Israeli historian Yuval Noah Harari has backed academics and peace activists in his home country in an attac…
Adam Kinzinger, another anti-Trump Republican, details exchange – and ‘shoulder checks’ from McCarthy – in new memoirWhen Liz Cheney warned fellow Republicans five days before January 6 of a “dark day” to come if they “indulged in the fantasy” that the…
The publisher’s $10,000 Freedom of Expression prize invites teens to write about a banned book that changed their life, against a backdrop of rising censorshipPublisher Penguin Random House has launched a new writing award in the US celebrating freedo…