The prestigious Hugo awards for science fiction and fantasy writing has revealed that almost 400 votes – about 10% of all votes cast in this year’s awards – were fraudulently paid for... Read more »
She was the first woman to be awarded the Booker prize and remains the only Welsh winner, but until now there has been no memorial to the achievements of Bernice Rubens. On... Read more »
Doppelganger by Guardian US columnist Naomi Klein has become the inaugural winner of the Womenâs prize for nonfiction, while Brotherless Night by VV Ganeshananthan has been named winner of the fiction prize.... Read more »
Deirdre Madden, Kathryn Scanlan and Hanif Abdurraqib are among the eight recipients of this year’s Windham-Campbell prizes, worth $175,000 (£140,000) each. Madden, who is from Northern Ireland, was recognised for her eight... Read more »
Booker prize shortlisted author Paul Murray and comedian Fern Brady have been announced as the winners of their categories in the inaugural Nero book awards. Irish writer Murray topped the fiction category... Read more »
A Big Win in the Texas Book Rating Law Case Jan 19 2024 In a major victory for freedom to read advocates, the Fifth Circuit of the U.S. Court of Appeals on... Read more »
Donald Trump memorably compared the New York Democratic congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to Eva Perón, the Argentinian first lady known as Evita. But a new book reveals that when the young Latino leftwinger... Read more »
We are not the cultural consumers we used to be. Data, streaming, and Web 2.0 have remade how we read and how we watch. Platforms are the new publishers. But although we... Read more »