Why Jonathan Franzen’s portrait of an American family has such staying power.

The president again rejected calls to try to regulate the industry, even as some of its leaders are speaking more openly about the risks of rapidly developing artificial intelligence.

Bloomsbury has unveiled a “five-year leadership succession plan” that will see a new CEO appointed in two years, with founder and CEO Nigel Newton becoming executive chairman now.

Kurt Vonnegut describes the train arriving in Dresden at five o’clock that afternoon: “The boxcar doors were opened, and the doorways framed the loveliest city that most of the Americans had ever s…

Astra’s arrival comes days after Sam Altman, OpenAI’s chief executive, described AGI as an ‘irrelevant marketing term’

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28 August 2026 Interviewer: Lily Martin, Keele University Respondents: Molly Beck, Executive Editor for Literature at Palgrave Macmillan; Ben Doyle, Senior Publisher for STS, Digital and Medical Hu…

Author Susan Farrell shares 10 things writers should know about Kurt Vonnegut, author of Slaughterhouse-Five and Cat's Cradle.

Author Susan Farrell shares 10 things writers should know about Kurt Vonnegut, author of Slaughterhouse-Five and Cat's Cradle.

In an hourlong interview, he said his industry was downplaying the risks, which he believes include mass unemployment and bioterrorism.

We are aware of reports that fraudsters are impersonating Bloomsbury staff, literary agents and Bloomsbury authors in an attempt to target writers, illustrators and others in the wider publishing comm...

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How did a Dresden slaughterhouse and a 1960s alien abduction case shape Kurt Vonnegut's literary masterpiece? In this blog post, Susan Farrell explores the gripping real history and cultural context b...

Banned, burned, and censored, Kurt Vonnegut's 1969 novel Slaughterhouse-Five is widely regarded as one of the greatest (and most controversial) novels of the tw…

A study of cross-generational literary networks in interwar Britain, this book investigates how writers in the 1930s emerged from the shadow of their older mode…

Can you commit treason by “mere words”? “Do civilized peoples shoot their poets?” Are there limits to free expression? Grappling with these questions, this open…

Underlining (and undermining) the notion of literary merit, this book focuses on noncanonical works and asks: what happens when we look away from modernism? See…

One of the first books to examine Hannah Arendt's work by putting it in conversation with a series of literary works from writers such as Melville, Brecht, Conr…

Melting sea ice from climate change has opened up the region for giant whales to undertake "feeding frenzies".

Report’s author said findings highlighted ‘near-total failure’ to hold corporations accountable over the disaster that killed 72 people

Meta’s smart glasses are just the latest example of technology being used in ways developers should have anticipated

The Reform UK leader won the contest, which was boycotted by major political parties, but didn't attend the declaration.

A new study reveals that AI’s climate impact extends far beyond its massive data center footprint.

Martin Chilton picks his favourite new book releases for August

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Britain expands heat alerts while estimates suggest June’s death toll could surpass 20,000 across continent