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Dutch publisher to use AI to translate ‘limited number of books’ into English

A major Dutch publisher plans to trial translating books into English using artificial intelligence.Veen Bosch & Keuning (VBK) – the largest publisher in the Netherlands, acquired by Simon &...

‘The Myth of American Idealism: How U.S. Foreign Policy Endangers the World’

Recently, at a hostel in Cochabamba, Bolivia, I launched into a tirade about the lack of any significant...

Novelizations Have Risen From the Grave

“It’s the genre that allows you to take the biggest swings,” says writer and publisher Mark Alan Miller...

Paddington Bear given UK passport by Home Office

He has been one of the UK’s favourite and most prominent refugees for two-thirds of a century. Now...

Paddington Bear given official UK passport by Home Office

He has been one of the UK’s favourite and most prominent refugees for two-thirds of a century. Now...

A Song From the Forest

“We Will Be Jaguars: A Memoir of My People“By Nemonte Nenquimo and Mitch AndersonAbrams PressThe literature of Amazonia has always been a literature of...

The Rise of the Constitutional Sheriff

Sheriffs in the United States hold immense power. They arrest people on the streets they patrol, they run their county’s jails, and they enforce evictions....

Amazon criticised as Tommy Robinson book tops bestseller chart

Amazon has been accused of funnelling “thousands of pounds into the pockets of Britain’s best known far-right extremist” after Tommy Robinson’s latest book topped...

‘I hope God gives me the strength to make more movies’: Scorsese addresses retirement rumours

Martin Scorsese has denied he is planning to retire, telling a press conference in Italy that he has “more films to make” after reports...

America’s Hollow Man

Nothing so possesses the American imagination as presidential elections. Straightforward materialist explanations  —  the absence of laws limiting the length of campaign seasons; millionaires and...

Covid, canal raids and May’s nostrils: six key takeaways from Boris Johnson’s memoir

Planning military incursions into the Netherlands, likening himself to ancient Greeks and comparing Keir Starmer to castrated bulls: the serialisation of Boris Johnson’s forthcoming...