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This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. Harlequin Is Ending Its Historical Romance Line After Nearly 40 Years Even as romance has become the dominant […]
To celebrate the 40th anniversary of its beloved American Girl Doll empire, Mattel is launching a bevy of new products. Some of them ultra-fresh, like the ladies of the K-Pop Demon Hunter collection. But some of them, very old-school. The nostalgists are getting a new Samantha novel. But the twist? This one’s not for kids. […]
This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. Book Sales Were Down in 2025. And There Was One Culprit According to The American Association of Publishers, […]
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET TODAY: In 1898, Bertolt Brecht is born. LETTERS FROM MINNESOTA: Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl on the brutal impact of ice on Twin City businesses • Nimo H. Farah on refusing to mistake silence for safety. | Lit Hub Politics Why do fascists fetishize the classics? Ed Simon has some thoughts. […]
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THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET TODAY: In 1823, Ann Radcliffe dies. Read more from our Letters from Minnesota series by Kaia Preus, Laurie Hertzel, Marcie R. Rendon, and others. | Lit Hub Toni Morrison considers Blackness in the literary canon and what Flannery O’Connor’s fiction reveals about race in America. | Lit Hub Criticism […]
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Companies making machine learning and generative software aren’t just metaphorically ripping off books. In at least one case, they’re rather literally shredding millions of physical books to feed to their chatbots. As uncovered last month by The Washington Post, AI giant Anthropic ran a massive program called Project Panama where they spent tens of millions […]
There are currently freedom to read bills under consideration in three states: Massachusetts, New Mexico, and Pennsylvania. An additional one is currently on deck in Virginia as well, though the details of that are worthy of a little more discernment. These are in addition to the 13 similar bills that have already passed. The titles […]
