Live-action role playing was associated with games like Dungeons & Dragons. Now, it’s a way to call someone out for being inauthentic.

A torch bearer for the great 19th-century tradition of social realism, she’s become one of the most important novelists of her generation.

Four TV shows, now acknowledged as the medium’s high point, each cannily predicted the ways in which America would start to crack apart.

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Is it OK to raise this issue? I don’t want to be a bother.

Much has been written on the neoliberalization of the academy on the one hand and precarious creative labour/work in the culture industries on the other, but there has been comparatively little writi...

She posted four pages of a manuscript on a newly started Substack newsletter on Saturday and said that the novel would be released serially throughout August.

Uncovering race, gender, and sexual biases in popular self-publishing platforms The average reader need not go far in a bookstore before, knowingly or not, t...

Queer Throughlines draws on years of direct participation, interviews, and ethnography to examine transnational Korean LGBTQ+ activism since the 1990s. Han maps the sites and routes of leftist and que...

Jason Arday was hired by the University of Cambridge in 2023 as the youngest Black professor in its history. Doubt has since been cast on his academic qualifications and claims about his life.

This exploratory study examined the level of inappropriate AI usage in doctoral dissertations, specifically across 100 EdD dissertations published in 2025 withi

Published in Pacific Affairs: An International Review of Asia and the Pacific (Vol. 99, No. 2, 2026)

Publishers use backlist (old) and frontlist (new) titles for survival. The mix is key, impacted by tech and market changes.

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If you were anything like Clark Burscough, I’d have something to like about you: here’s this week’s links.