Oct 21 2024: Anti-censorship advocates have joined book publisher Penguin Random House in condemning a Texas county that reclassified an account of European settlers’ colonization of Indigenous Americans as fiction.
Oct 18 2024: The University of Cincinnati announced on Thursday that the University of Cincinnati Press will shut down on June 25. In a release, the university said that it had "determined that the long-term financial sustainment of the University of Cincinnati Press is not feasible...
Oct 16 2024: Pope Francis has written an autobiography, publisher Penguin Random House (PRH) has announced. Hope, which will be published globally in January next year, is the first such book written by a sitting pope.
Oct 14 2024: The Australian classifications review board has been ordered to review its assessment of the book Gender Queer, after the federal court found the board had ignored, overlooked or misunderstood public submissions for it to be censored.
Oct 11 2024: Queues of customers spilled out of South Korea’s bookshops yesterday and online stores crashed as readers tried to get their hands on the work of the new Nobel prize winner, Han Kang.
The country’s largest book chain, Kyobo Book Centre, said sales of Han’s books ...
Oct 11 2024: Sourcebooks and Hearst have launched Cosmo Reads, a new imprint in collaboration with Cosmopolitan magazine. In a joint release, reps said that the new line will focus on “inclusive romantic and pop fiction” and aim to publish four to six titles per year.
Oct 11 2024: TOLEDO, Ohio — Marsha Hill feels like she's been coming to the public library for a hundred years. She came with her kids when they were young. Later, she came for computer help.
Now at 66, she's discovered yet another reason to love the library. She's one of ...
Oct 10 2024: The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2024 is awarded to the South Korean author Han Kang, “for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life”. You can see Han Kang's brief bio and books listed on BookBrowse here.
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