When slavery was abolished in the British empire in 1833, it was thought only reasonable that slave-owners should be recompensed for the loss of their property: the British government had to borrow the equivalent... Read more »
Author Bernardine Evaristo is using the £100,000 she won through the Women’s prize outstanding contribution award to fund a new prize for “pioneering” British female writers over 60. The RSL Pioneer prize... Read more »
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The judges for the category this year are the poet and activist Heather Kathleen Moody Hall, proprietor of Green Feather Book Company; Tiya Miles, a history professor at Harvard whose book, “All... Read more »
How dressed up is your bookshelf? Fancy books are by no means a requirement for readers—you may be satisfied with your discount paperbacks, which have their own easy charm, or convenient and... Read more »
Book banners are everywhere. These lawyers are playing offense. Sep 12 2025 Mark Herron isn’t exactly a media lawyer. His specialty is discrimination and employment rights, and most of his cases involve... Read more »
Apple is the latest tech company to be hit with a proposed class action lawsuit over unauthorized training of AI models using published books. On Friday, authors Grady Hendrix and Jennifer Roberson... Read more »
Traditional publishers find success in nontraditional ways Aug 22 2025 These days, many people in the book business are taking the proverb “necessity is the mother of invention” more seriously than ever.... Read more »
Dear BookBrowsers, Still need more fiction for your summer TBR? This issue will fix that. We cover Taylor Jenkins Reid’s Atmosphere, bringing to life the early days of NASA’s Space Shuttle program,... Read more »