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Mahvash Sabet Wrote Her Prison Memoir From a Solitary Cell
Recognized abroad with a share of the 2017 PEN Pinter Prize, the Iranian Baha'i poet finished one ten-year term only to be sentenced to another, and remains at risk today.
Poetry by Season: The Best Upcoming Poetry for This Autumn
Five collections publishing this autumn share a preoccupation that feels exactly right for the season, what survives a loss, a family reshaped, a familiar place seen freshly. Here is where to start.
Great and Unfortunate Things: The Memoir Jason Arday Leaves Behind
What Jason Arday's memoir Great and Unfortunate Things tells, and how critics have received it, following his death days after its US publication.
Lisa F. Crites Turns Her Own Cancer Recovery Into a Patented Invention and a New Memoir, Beautifully Unbroken
The medical journalist behind The Shower Shirt™, the first patented water-resistant garment for chest surgery patients, tells how the sudden loss of her mother, a breast cancer diagnosis, and a book deal she turned down twice became an Amazon Best Seller, with proceeds pledged to breast cancer support groups.
Destroying Books Is a Cultural Crime. Project Panama Destroyed Millions of Books with No Legal Consequence
Anthropic bought millions of books, cut them apart and pulped them after scanning. No court called it a crime. Destroying books is a cultural crime and no ruling changes that.
You Have a Story Worth Sharing- We are all made of stories but yours will define who we are
Every life contains a book. Some people write it.
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.