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In his Scholarly Kitchen article Damned if you do, damned if you don’t: Multilingual researchers’ use of AI in academic writing, Avi Staiman argues that “’Did you use AI?’

The only big-time glitzy author I ever met.

You can make your cover shiny by printing a glossy varnish onto it, or, for a superior result, by bonding a kitchen-cling-film-like plastic-y sheet to it.

Sword Beach, Ouistreham, Normandy.

Well I never expected to be referring to Piers Morgan as an authority on anything.

Audible and Higher Ground LLC are sponsoring the podcast series A Great Book With Barack Obama.

Maybe not exactly the same as “popularity”, but the book series with the most online searches (at Awesome Books) are: 1.

The Folger Library alerts us to a mention of Artificial Intelligence in a book in their collection printed in 1588, John Harvey’s A discoursiue probleme concerning prophesies.

“The Center for the Art of Translation and The Center for Fiction in Brooklyn co-present Day of Translation 2026!

Taylor & Francis and Cactus Communications, STM News informs us, have renewed their partnership providing language support to authors.

I’ve often gone on about how we should stop agonizing about AI use in colleges, and take the sensible course of making students handwrite their essays — you kind of know they’re going to use AI, but if they have to write the results out by hand at least t…

Here are BookRiot‘s three highlights from the recent report commissioned by the Association of American Publishers and the Authors Guild, entitled An Empirical Study of the Impact of E-Lending on the Book Economy: Increase in digital lending leads to a de…

An article in The Economist, about the prospect facing the new head of MI6, Blaise Metreweli, makes one reflect on the glories of British espionage, represented of course in the fictional world of James Bond, George Smiley et al.

Every Novel is Boring — Until It Isn’t Emma Adler tells us at Public Books.

In his valuable book Literary Theory for Robots (W.

April 25th, 2025 Well. it’s not every bookstore that you have to queue up to get into.

Publishing is an odd animal: perhaps more like a worm than a dinosaur.

Ted Gioia asserts “Most of the predictions about AI have proven dead wrong.

John Hollander in Rhyme’s Reason: A Guide to English Verse (Yale University Press, 1981) exemplifies his various themes with examples he’s composed himself.

At Print Magazine, The Daily Heller brings us an interview with Mimi Pond, author of a graphic biography of the Mitford Sisters.

The American Library Association’s Banned Books Week 2026 will take place from October 4th till October 10th.

I was rather surprised by this statue in the Philadelphia Academy of Fine Arts.

Eight year’s ago Making Book published a post about Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library.