Stephen Price The first modern PC game available in the Welsh language has launched recently – all thanks to the passion of one of its Lead Sound Designers who hails from the Rhondda Valleys. Cai Jone...

Young people consistently described online spaces as providing opportunities for self-expression and self-discovery.

Meta has forbidden reference to A Room Of One’s Own. It almost makes you think that techno-fascism might not be good for the world.

From Hardy’s Wessex to Brontë country, literary tourists may be chasing places that never quite existed as they imagine them.

While fascists protest in UK ports and purvey nonsense and poison online, ever fewer people have the perspective or analytical tools to challenge them, says Guardian columnist John Harris

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The much-discussed Life of M is the latest in a lineage of celebrity satire that spans from Virginia Woolf to The Devil Wears Prada

From cover design to shelf placement and influencer partnerships … how publishers will persuade you to buy their books this autumn

A policy clarification convinced readers that Wattpad had banned smut. AO3 users prepare for an influx.

Development comes after Anthropic was found to have spent millions on books to scan for ‘data acquisition’

Editorial: In an unexpected twist, a Hollywood epic has contributed to Britain’s best-ever half-year in poetry sales

Julie makes notes in the margin as she’s reading, but Charlie says she’s ruining books he may want to read. Should they get on the same page? You decide

Amelia Jones  A Bonnie Tyler TV advert has resurfaced ahead of today’s solar eclipse in Wales, bringing back memories of one of the Welsh singer’s iconic hits. The advert shows Tyler explaining ‘every...

Books have never been trendier, but studies show that as more and more things compete for our frazzled attention spans, we’re reading less and less. This is a problem because reading has a wealth of c...

Power cable linking UK and Ireland now passes near Bronze Age human burial remains instead of fictional grave on Welsh beach

There's a backlash against book destruction — and a better way to scan them.

From Obsession to Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, a new wave of movies are ditching minimalism for retro settings

The AI company apparently found destructively scanning ‘all the books in the world’ easier than dealing with copyright in its quest for training data

The Routledge Companion to Gender and Celebrity offers the first comprehensive global study of how gender shapes celebrity culture across diverse contexts and media landscapes. Bringing together 37 or...

With smartphones stealing our attention, we’re picking up fewer books than ever. A novelist shares her eight-week scheme to get you back into the habit

Pencil marks in the margins of books gathered over a lifetime was proof of a life lived. So when it came time for Andrew McKean to move into aged care, leaving his books behind made the self thinner

Sick of doomscrolling? From venues with smartphone swear jars to cabins with absolutely no signal, here are the fun and freeing ways to ditch your device

From Dervla Murphy’s Northern Ireland to Elena Ferrante’s Naples, readers share the stories that inspired them to travel• Tell us about a trip to Europe’s lakes and mountains – the best tip wins a £20...

Chair of judges Mary Beard said each of the 13 books in contention for the £50,000 award ‘takes the reader to new places’

Celebrities are hosting literary clubs and designers are launching products emblazoned with the classics – but does reading’s trendy turn have a darker side?

Bloomsbury has 14,087 titles listed in agreement between AI startup and authors over use of their work

Editorial: Literature, the arts and social sciences must not be sacrificed as higher education funding is squeezed

Author Wendy Jones highlighted the trend in an Instagram post: ‘What is going on here?’

Reading rarely starts with abstract arguments about its value – it often begins with subjects that already matter.