From chapter books to graphic novels, challenged literature provides a snapshot into some of the anxieties that drive media censorship.

OpenAI has developed an AI model that can summarize lengthy books, using a combination of task decomposition and reinforcement learning.

On the overwhelming needlessness of nonfiction

Columbus and his producing team are developing a live-action 'House of Secrets' series for Disney+ based on his books.

For much of the century, newspapers and popular novels were filled with sensationalistic tales of similar lives. What made these stories stand out was how they crossed assumed borders of gender and sexuality.

A team of researchers have published a new report detailing how Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Facebook, and Twitter have profited from the global campaign of violence.

In separate motions this week, lawyers for both Amazon and the Big Five publishers asked a federal court to dismiss the latest iteration of a potential class-action price-fixing claim filed on behalf of indie booksellers involving print trade books.

Two cult authors both wrote about human nature – and the horrors that technology can unleash. Dorian Lynskey explores the parallel lives of the writers whose work still resonates.

Listen to this celebration of CBC's battle of the books on Labour Day, Monday, Sept. 6 at 4 p.m. on CBC Radio, CBC Listen or wherever you get your podcasts.

In his new book Red Roulette: An Insider's Story of Wealth, Power, Corruption, and Vengeance in Today's China, Desmond Shum writes about the disappearance of his ex-wife in China.

Open a book and a brand new world

Increasingly, books are something that libraries do not own but borrow from the corporations that do.

It's one of the first questions new authors ask: "How long should my book be? How many words should I write?" Here is some useful guidance, from children's books to fantasy novels.

The week Afghanistan fell to the Taliban, I had gone out of town with my parents and in-laws. While my children played, their parents and grandparents sat riveted to our phones, speaking in fragments. Thoughts interrupted. Plates half eaten. Nothing was whole anymore.

These maps show the books translated into the most languages from every country in the world, a great way to start reading in translation!

Australian psychologist Steven Taylor published what would turn out to be a prophetic book, and it has become like a Lonely Planet guide to the pandemic

Many authors and publishers now see the social networking site as a "necessary evil".

Many authors and publishers now see the social networking site as a "necessary evil"

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A delightful new book argues that numismatics—the study of coins—is the “beautiful science of civilizations.”