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Kimberley Nixon’s memoir, She Seems Fine to Me, is out on 7 May, and she’s quite terrified. This isn’t an author worried by sales figures or…

Grammarly has disabled a controversial AI feature that imitated the style of prominent writers and academics, and is facing a multimillion dollar lawsuit from those whose…

Ajmal, 7, is an avid fan of the InvestiGators comic books. They feature two crime-busting alligator secret agents called Mango and Brash. “It’s really funny,” he…

The AI ParadoxVirginia Dignum Princeton Univ. Press (2026)Some leading thinkers on artificial intelligence regard AI models as neither artificial nor intelligent. Virginia Dignum — who has…

It took a half century to build New College into a sanctuary of independent thought and less than a year to destroy it. In 2023 the…

A poet is threatening Arts Council England (ACE) with legal action after a magazine it funds withdrew her work from publication based on her “social media…

Dan Simmons, the author of more than 30 novels and short story collections spanning horror, political thrillers and science fiction such as Hyperion and The Terror,…

Nature, Published online: 27 February 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-00621-wAndrew Robinson reviews five of the best science picks.

It is the UK’s National Year of Reading. Specifically, this government-led scheme is about “reading for pleasure” and “the joy of reading”. This is not a…

Shelly Romero has early memories of going to her local supermarket and picking pulp fiction off the shelves. “We were very working class; my mom was…