Bill Gates has announced that he will be telling his âorigin storyâ in a memoir due to be published next year. Source Code: My Beginnings will cover the businessman and philanthropistâs early... Read more »
Mr Fib and Little Miss Surprise will become the latest characters to feature in the beloved Mr Men picture book series. More than 50 years since Mr Tickle, the first title in... Read more »
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Against the backdrop of the global Black Lives Matter movement, debates around the social impact of hate crime legislation have come to the political fore. In 2019, the UN Commission on Crime... Read more »
Children in the UK and Ireland are reading fewer books than they did last year, according to a new report, as post-Covid absences from school and a lack of dedicated reading time... Read more »
A rare letter written by Franz Kafka to his publisher shows just how anguished a struggle it was for the Bohemian writer to put pen to paper, especially as his health deteriorated.... Read more »
“Tribes” appear worldwide today as vestiges of a pre-modern past at odds with the workings of modern states. Acts of resistance and rebellion by groups designated as “tribal” have fascinated as well... Read more »
Book banning has seen a sharp rise across the United States, and many of the titles targeted depict LGBTQ+ people and their experiences. Books banned during the 2023-2024 school year reached a... Read more »
Andrew OâHagan. Photograph: Mimmo Frassineti/REX/Shutterstock Andrew OâHagan: âHe was among the best writers of his generationâ Scottish novelist John Burnside had a gift for naming those things that exist beyond plain sight,... Read more »