The Guardian » 1 week ago
A Dutch publisher has announced that it will use AI to translate some of its books – but those in the industry are worried about the consequences if this becomes the norm As anyone who has tried pointing their phone’s camera at a menu in a foreign country lately will know...
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The Guardian » 1 week ago
An émigré player’s artistry sings through a London street, rising over many barriersThe Kurdish MusicianShe is swaddled in pink, sky-blue and veiled in a gold hejab that with every chime of her santoor ...
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The Guardian » 1 week ago
The journalist and author of Hollywood’s Eve makes no pretence of impartiality as she charts the difficult relationship between two chroniclers of CaliforniaJournalist Lili Anolik’s latest book is a “provocation”, a dual biography of the two friends who ...
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The Guardian » 1 week ago
A dark fantasy in the vein of Alan Garner, a raw but hopeful tale of teenage alcoholism, and a cosy romcom with a neurodivergent angle are among this month’s selectionLiz Hyder won the older readers’ category in the Waterstones children’s book prize for her memorable debu...
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The Guardian » 1 week ago
After reading more than 150 books over seven months, the judges voted unanimously in favour of Samantha Harvey’s Orbital – which pulled them as far away as pos...
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The Guardian » 23 hours ago
The acclaimed Norwegian author explores the impact of childhood trauma in this portrait of a life lived in fear Stay With Me is a brief novel, but the whole is overshadowed by fear. The narrator, a Norwegian novelist living in Milan, recalls her childhood in the book’s op...
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The Guardian » 1 week ago
Royalties earned from The Golden Mole, published in the US this week as Vanishing Treasures, will be given towards counteracting ‘the election of a climate-change denier’British author Katherine Rundell will give all the royalties from one of her books to climate charitie...
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The Guardian » 1 week ago
Basic Liberty, a publishing imprint launched in the wake of Trump’s election win, will be helmed by Thomas Spence, an editor associated with Project 2025 thinktank The Heritage FoundationStaff are protesting against a new US imprint of global publisher Hachette Book Group...
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The Guardian » 1 week ago
Set during Liz Truss’s premiership, Coe’s multilayered novel is a mixture of whodunnit and political chronicle with a villain hiding in plain sightMy favourite joke in Jonathan Coe’s new novel is hardly a side-splitter, more what someone of my acquaintance would label “Ra...
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The Guardian » 1 week ago
A chronicle of the largest criminal case in French history from a master of the genreIn the early evening of 12 November 2015, three cars left Charleroi in Belgium, arriving a few hours later at a rented house in the northern suburbs of Paris. The occupants of the cars – ...
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