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Tailored publishing efforts allow Chinese stories to go global
Global Times
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Illustration: Liu Xiangya/GTThe recently released 2025 China-ASEAN Book Influence Report at the 2025 China-ASEAN Book Culture Week reveals a significant leap in China's cultural engagement with Southeast Asia, where publications in various...
Former IPS officer V.S. Ravi launches book celebrating lifelong passion for Shakespeare
The Hindu
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July 7, 2025
Jayanthi Ravi, author’s wife; former Hyderabad Police Commissioner A.K. Khan; former Tamil Nadu Governor P. S. Ramamohan Rao; author of the book V.S. Ravi; former IAS officer S. Chakravarthy and publisher of the book, Diwakar at the launch of the...
Anime Expo: Yen Press to Publish Deluxe Edition of 'Battle Royale'
ICv2
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At Anime Expo on July 4, Yen Press announced it has licensed the Battle Royale manga, by writer Koushun Takami and artist Masayuki Taguchi, and will publish it as a deluxe hardcover edition. While no other information was available from Yen Press,...
Parting by Sebastian Haffner: the forgotten German novel of the early 1930s that’s become a bestseller
The Conversation
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July 7, 2025
Abschied (Parting) by Sebastian Haffner (1907-1999) is dominating the bestseller charts in Germany. It has been published posthumously, over 25 years after his death, after the manuscript was found in a drawer. The novel is a love story between...
How a N.J comic book store became a champion for LGBTQ+ representation
NJ.com - New Jersey
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July 7, 2025
For 11 years, East Side Mags’ owner, Jeff Beck, has made it his mission to stock inclusive comics, organizing them by genre and content, ranging from kid-friendly to romance and beyond. Along the way, the Montclair comic book store became a...
Kent Council’s removal of trans books will have ‘devastating’ impact on young people, author warns
Pink News
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July 7, 2025
The author says they are “worried” about what such book bans could mean in the UK (Dee Whitnell) A trans, Kent-based author has said the decision by the Reform UK-run county council to remove trans-focused books from the children’s sections of its...
Springer Nature Book on Machine Learning is Full of Made-Up Citations
Slashdot
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July 7, 2025
Springer Nature published a $169 machine learning textbook in April containing citations that appear to be largely fabricated, according to an investigation by Retraction Watch. The site checked 18 of the 46 citations in "Mastering Machine...
Cyberpunk: Edgerunners was a depression-fest because its writer is 'from Poland and people in Poland are sad. They are born sad, they die sad, so I just wanted to make the whole world sad'
PC Gamer
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July 7, 2025
I'm always very skeptical of attempts to tie particular themes in literature and film to some sort of ineffable national character. Surely nations are too strange, large and varied to be reduced to something quintessential and eternal. Surely...
Hunter Biden helped make campaign decisions, was major fixture in father's orbit, author says
Fox News
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Josh Dawsey, a reporter for the Wall Street Journal, told ABC on Sunday that Hunter Biden helped his father make campaign decisions and often joined in on calls, citing reporting from his new book. NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles!...
Philippa Snow’s New Book Dissects The Allure and Agony of
AnOther
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July 7, 2025
July 07, 2025 Lead ImageSelf-portrait by Pamela AndersonAnOther Magazine Autumn/Winter 2020 No writer weaves feminist art theory with celebrities quite like Philippa Snow. Known for Which As You Know Means Violence (2022) and Trophy Lives (2024),...
Feel like a failure? Read this ‘exquisitely funny-painful’ novel
The Times
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I spent most of my twenties writing three novels that were never published. While friends were making headway with careers, houses and partners, I looked failure in the face. In those years I fell in love with Bernard Malamud’s Pictures of...
The Psychiatric Pipeline in Review: Quarter 2, 2025
Psychiatric Times - New Jersey
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July 7, 2025
The second quarter of 2025 saw some huge successes and fails in the psychiatric treatment pipeline. Here, learn more about what percentage of that news was positive vs negative, what disease states were most prominently featured, and what...
New book breaks down why Kamala Harris picked Tim Walz instead of Josh Shapiro as running mate
Washington Examiner
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July 7, 2025
A new book is shedding light on why former Vice President Kamala Harris did not pick Gov. Josh Shapiro (D-PA) as her Democratic running mate in 2024, even though a majority of analysts said he seemed like the strongest contender.Some theories...
The Maker’s Toolbox: Bambu Lab H2D Review
Hackster.io
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The new Bambu Lab H2D is, in my opinion, the most influential 3D printer release of 2025. As such, it has received a lot of attention and everyone has their own thoughts. I’m here to add my own into the mix with this review of the Bambu Lab H2D 3D...
New book by UB researcher turns urban sociology on its head
UB Now
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Even in retirement, Mark Gottdiener, professor emeritus of sociology, College of Arts and Sciences, is recognized as one of the nation’s leading urban sociologists. His work at the intersection of cultural issues and social problems was the...
‘The Salt Path’ Producers Respond To Observer Investigation: “There Were No Known Claims Against The Book At The Time Of Optioning It”
Deadline
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July 7, 2025
The producers behind under fire movie The Salt Path have said they “undertook all necessary due diligence before acquiring the book.” Responding to a bombshell investigation in The Observer that questioned many of the claims made in the movie’s...
More to the story: Author Carol Ann Cole releases 6th book in Paradise series
Saltwire
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A: Paradise, the first in the series, took almost a decade to write. For years there was only Paradise and I. Slowly other characters seemed to develop. Paradise was 16 in book one and Thomas, who would eventually become her husband, was 19....
MAGA Influencers Scream Cover-Up Following Release of DOJ Memo Closing the Book on Jeffrey Epstein Case
The New York Sun
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July 7, 2025
A new Department of Justice memo released late Sunday that seeks to close the book on the Jeffrey Epstein case set MAGA conspiracy theorists to hyperventilating and screaming cover-up on Monday morning The memo, first reported by Axios, concludes...
Celebrating poetry and community: Accomplished local author to host special book signing in Raleigh
WNCN - North Carolina
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July 7, 2025
RALEIGH, N.C. (WNCN) – Mark your calendars for a celebration of poetic expression this weekend that promises to not just touch the soul, but also inspire and uplift. A special book signing and reading event is set for Saturday, featuring J. Dwayne...
New book on ’24 presidential race details Murphy’s interest in running
New Jersey Globe
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July 7, 2025
A new book on the 2024 presidential campaign details New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy’s plan to seek the Democratic presidential nomination if Joe Biden had opted out of a re-election bid. In “2024: How Trump Retook the White House and the Democrats...