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Welcome to Lit Trivia, the Book Review’s regular quiz about books, authors and literary culture. This week’s installment celebrates novels written about or during America’s Gilded…

This is an edition of the Books Briefing, our editors’ weekly guide to the best in books. Sign up for it here.One of the more common…

The amount of Americans who read for pleasure has fallen by 40%, according to a new study.Researchers at the University of Florida and University College London…

“I don’t feel particularly unhappy about my work being used to train AI,” says Japanese novelist Rie Qudan. “Even if it is copied, I feel confident…

This is an edition of the Books Briefing, our editors’ weekly guide to the best in books. Sign up for it here.The most recent issue of…

Jon Lee Anderson is “not done with Afghanistan”, despite having reported on it for more than 40 years, through invasions, occupations, the rise and fall of…

Welcome to Great Adaptations, the Book Review’s regular multiple-choice quiz about books that have gone on to find new life as movies, television shows, theatrical productions…

Welcome to Literary Quotable Quotes, a quiz that challenges you to match a book’s memorable lines with its title. This week’s installment celebrates quotations from classic…

Gwyneth: The Biography opens, where else, with the vaginal egg, an episode that has come to stand for Paltrow’s general ability to sell dumb ideas to…

Authors have until the end of August to opt out. SvetaZi/iStock/Getty Images Johns Hopkins University Press (JHUP) is the latest academic publisher to announce plans to…