A Game of Thrones film is set for the big screen, with Warner Bros officially developing a prequel set in the world of Westeros. House of Cards showrunner and Andor writer Beau... Read more »
The film-makers behind the successful Paddington series are to embark on a feature film adaptation of another British family favourite, the Mr Men and Little Miss series of illustrated children’s books. David... Read more »
Hekate, the Greek goddess of magic and the underworld, is the prototypal witch known to many from Shakespeare’s Macbeth, where she chastises the weird sisters for their meddling. Along with witchcraft and... Read more »
Baudelaire introduced ordinary objects into poetry – likening the sky to a pan lid – and by doing so revolutionised poetic language. Likewise, Seamus Heaney introduced Northern Irish vernacular into the English... Read more »
The government in Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir has banned 25 books, including works by the Booker-prize winning author Arundhati Roy, accusing them of promoting a “false narrative and secessionism” in the disputed... Read more »
Book News: PEN America backs bill to limit use of creative works as criminal evidence
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Book News: Senate hearing debates AI training on copyrighted works
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More than 160 books by noted Australian authors have been rescued from oblivion, including six winners of the Miles Franklin literary award. The three-year project, which culminated at the end of last... Read more »
A new take on Chitty Chitty Bang Bang is reportedly in early development. According to Deadline, Barbara Broccoli and Michael Wilson’s Eon Productions – best known for the James Bond movies –... Read more »