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The ruling found that materials which are changed with enough “creative spark” can be copyrightable, and therefore under existing copyright law cannot be fairly used by an AI to create a competing business.

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“The words were inside of me, and I was being called to compose a story.” Read Alice Elliott Dark’s new afterword for “In the Gloaming.”

The decades-long friendship between Hannah Arendt and Mary McCarthy was defined by a “mix of intimacy and worldliness.”

Demetris Papadimitropoulos considers the complex relationships between queer people and their families through reading Families We Keep and Families We Lose.

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Translator and writer Lin King released a statement on Instagram on Tuesday laying out her claim of copyright infringement of her Booker-Prize-winning English translation of Taiwan Travelogue.

Deesha Philyaw explores the power of raising the stakes in fiction.

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Timothy Ryback examines parallels between the conditions that enabled Hitler’s electoral victory and the 2026 American midterms.

The American Library Association has published a list of the 150 most challenged books documented between 1990 and 2025.

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