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In Conversation With Francis Fukuyama on the Last Man He Once Declared Triumphant
In 1989, a young political scientist announced that history itself had reached its destination. On 2 September, at the London School of Economics, Francis Fukuyama returns to ask what he got right, what he got wrong and what thirty-seven years have done to that argument. He discusses his new memoir In the Realm of the Last Man at the London School of Economics on 2 September 2026. Here is what to expect.
Authors May Have to Keep Records of How They Write Their Own Books
HarperCollins' chief executive says no software can reliably tell a human manuscript from an AI-assisted one, and that a book written with AI help might not be copyrightable at all.
Readers Cannot Tell Whether a Short Story Came From a Person or ChatGPT
In three experiments with more than 2,500 adults, the same story scored higher whenever readers were told a human had written it.
AI Research Tools Can Now Quote Princeton University Press Books Without Training on Them
The Press chooses which titles go in and on what terms, through a platform called Cashmere, and its refusal to license anything for model training still stands.
Five Years in Venezuelan Custody, and the Memoir a Citgo Executive Made of Them
Jorge L. Toledo was vice president of supply and marketing at Citgo when armed agents arrested him at a meeting in Caracas in November 2017, and the title of the book he published last August is a literal count of the days that followed.
Bloomsbury Anthropic's $1.5 billion Copyright Settlement with Authors over 14,087 Titles
The Harry Potter publisher is due a multimillion pound payout from the largest copyright settlement in US history. The more interesting story is what it reveals about how a book's value gets counted once a machine has read it.
Leon Aryah Lewis Published His Debut Spiritual Memoir Thirty Years After Writing It
Inside Out: A Journey of the Soul, published by Landon Hail Press, traces one life as a soul's autobiography, exploring reincarnation, shadow and light, and the four decades of inner work that made Leon finally ready to share it.
Mohsen Rifaat Traces a Life Lived Between Cairo and Canada in New Illustrated Memoir
Egyptian-Canadian architect Mohsen Rifaat's illustrated memoir navigates a life between Cairo and Vancouver, and uncovers surprising historical ties between Egypt and Canada.
DUMB 31 Review: Nik Nanoski's Debut Finds Community at the End of the World
The Army veteran and nurse's post-apocalyptic debut follows four friends out of a failing bunker and into a surface world still full of people, where survival is a group effort.
Hollywood Producers Joshua L. Ritter and Joe Salwen Teach How to Write a Screenplay From the Other Side of the Desk
Two Hollywood producers with Netflix and Academy Award credits distill years of reading scripts into a practical Levenger Master Class workbook for aspiring screenwriters.
Army Veteran and Nurse Nik Nanoski Releases DUMB 31, a Post-Apocalyptic Novel Ten Years in the Making
The San Antonio author spent a decade writing a science fiction novel where survival depends on teamwork, not lone heroes, drawing on twenty years as a combat medic and nurse.
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The Brexit Lie Has a Name — and the Men Who Told It Have Gone Very Quiet
Anthony Seldon's 'The Brexit Effect' is the most serious reckoning with the Brexit decade yet published. It is also, conspicuously, missing the voice of the man who has said plainest what many now believe: that Brexit was a con and that the people who sold it should be held to account. When you read it alongside Michael Heseltine's 'From Acorns to Oaks', you can see the full picture: what was lost, who lost it, and what a different Britain could still become.