Book Review | When Remembrance Is Both Relief And A Trauma

Shashi Warrier’s latest novel, My Name is Jasmine, begins on an intriguing note. We encounter a woman who wakes up in a hospital with no memory of who she is or where she is from. She is terrified by her absence of identity and personhood, and...

Book Review | In ‘Songs’ Of City, An Unequal Music

What do novelists turn to the short story for? Perhaps for practice, as in Ray Bradbury — who wrote one a week as a kind of riyaaz ahead of the more serious business of novel-writing. Others might claim, like Borges did, that the novel in any case...

Book Review | The Honourable Nehru-Matthai Clash

Biographer Bakhtiar K. Dadabhoy has written an old-fashioned biography, simple, replete with facts and details of the complex politics of the times when John Matthai served as India’s first railway minister of independent India, and then as the...

Anthropic's AI Training on Books Is Fair Use, Judge Rules. Authors Are More Worried Than Ever

Claude maker Anthropic's use of copyright-protected books in its AI training process was "exceedingly transformative" and fair use, US senior district judge William Alsup ruled on Monday. It's the first time a judge has decided in favor of an AI...

Book review: Lev Grossman’s epic Bright Sword is a fluid retelling of Arthurian legend

Book review: The Summer House by Masashi Matsuie is a quiet ode to Japanese architecture

Book review: Former Iceland first lady Eliza Reid pens Christie-inspired Death Of A Diplomat

Book review: A fingerprint expert obsessed with learning the fate of her missing sister

BRUCE DESILVA Associated Press Sixteen years have passed since Shaw Connolly’s teenage sister, Thea, slipped out of their family home in rural Maine to party with friends and never came home. Shaw (short for Shawnee), now a fingerprint expert for...

Author Ian Carter finds inspiration in the glens near Auchencairn

Author and retired ornithologist Ian Carter has always loved wildness and living in places where wildlife takes centre stage. Since moving to a glen above Auchencairn three years ago, he has immersed himself in the wildlife on his doorstep, from...

Book review: A manual for the investigative process, ‘The Fairbanks Four’ documents the case and ensuing movement

“The Fairbanks Four: Murder, Injustice, and the Birth of a Movement” By Brian O’Donoghue; Sourcebooks, 2025; 350 pages; $27.99 Like most people in Fairbanks, I suspect, I initially believed the Fairbanks Four were guilty in the beating death of...

Meta Won Its AI Fair Use Lawsuit, but Judge Says Authors Are Likely 'to Often Win' Going Forward

AI companies scored another victory in court this week. Meta on Wednesday won a motion for partial summary judgment in its favor in Kadrey v. Meta, a case brought on by 13 authors alleging the company infringed on their copyright protections by...

What Grief Left Behind – A review of Chika Unigwe’s The Middle Daughter

Title: The Middle Daughter Author: Chika Unigwe Year of Publication: 2023 Number of Pages: 325 Category: Fiction What immediately draws you into ‘The Middle Daughter’ is Chika Unigwe’s refreshingly simple writing style. She doesn’t overwhelm you...

Review: CABARET at Guthrie Theater

“Leave your troubles outside”. A line of dialogue that any theater lover (or fan of classic film) will recognize and one that sums up the entire message of the legendary Kander and Ebb musical, Cabaret. The Guthrie Theater has officially put their...

Cosmic wonders from Chile, record heat wave and July Fourth food: The week in review

New window to the universe A “cosmic treasure chest” has been opened with the debut of the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in northern Chile as astronomers released startling first images, including one of a southern region of the Virgo Cluster...

Motorola Moto G Stylus (2025) Review: A Top-Performing Budget Phone

Summary The Motorola Moto G Stylus (2025) packs a lot into its low price, with an integrated stylus for note-taking, a brilliant 6.7-inch AMOLED display, loud stereo speakers, and a stylish design. Its primary 50MP camera performs well for most...

Turn your book idea into reality with this $49 AI tool

TL;DR: Bring your nonfiction book idea to life with a little help from AI with this lifetime subscription to Youbooks, an AI non-fiction book generator, on sale now for $49 (reg. $540). Got a great idea for a book but no time to write it? Youbooks...

Former Manipur CM Biren Releases PM Modi’s Book ‘Emergency Diaries’

Former Chief Minister and BJP leader N. Biren Singh today released the book Emergency Diaries, authored by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, at Thambal Shanglen (BJP state headquarters), Keishampat in Imphal. Speaking at the book release function, the...

NMU Alumna publishes wildebeest study

Steph Szarmach in Zambia at Mosi-oa-Tunya National Park (Victoria Falls) during her "Zambassadors" field studies course through Northern Michigan University. (Photo courtesy of NMU) MARQUETTE – The largest remaining migratory population of...

Game Review: Marvel Mystic Mayhem is an Gorgeous and Action-Packed Mobile Adventure that Fails to Set Itself Apart

While NetEase stepped into the Marvel Universe earlier this year with Marvel Rivals, the developer has just released a brand new game bringing the superhero action to mobile devices with Marvel Mystic Mayhem. Marvel Mystic Mayhem is here! The...

Author’s books give children a voice

Helping children express themselves is just one of the goals of a series of books by local author Kiri-Michelle Mohi. The series, christened Real Raw Resources, deals with a range of issues that children may be facing in a way that can help them...