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2024 September


Manipulative author Ta-Nehisi Coates’ dangerous vision of Israel without Jews

Manipulative author Ta-Nehisi Coates’ dangerous vision of Israel without Jews

Indeed, the only motivation behind Coates’ “Jews are white” charade is to edify the claims of “genocide” and “zionist-colonialism” now parading through city squares and college campuses intended to legitimize Hamas barbarism and justify Jewish death.


Book industry in ‘unhappy marriage’ with Twitter/X as Pan Mac says it is ‘pausing all activity’

Book industry in ‘unhappy marriage’ with Twitter/X as Pan Mac says it is ‘pausing all activity’

Jack Birch, Bloomsbury’s senior digital marketing manager, said: "There is much press about dwindling user numbers for X/Twitter, but it remains the platform where influential media figures (journalists, celebrities) continue to post, and where important news breaks first.


TokyoPop promotes LoveLove brand editor Lena Atanassova to editor-in-chief

TokyoPop promotes LoveLove brand editor Lena Atanassova to editor-in-chief

My passion for diverse stories that focus on the human experience is central to my perspective as an editor, manager and fan and I remain committed to working to provide a platform for creative expression and storytelling.


Why a president’s financial health is just as important as their politics

Why a president’s financial health is just as important as their politics

With the election looming, any voters who are still undecided should take a good, hard look at the candidates’ different financial profiles and decide which one would make the better steward of our country’s fiscal health.


Simon & Schuster Children’s adapts picture book for blind and visually impaired children

Simon & Schuster Children’s adapts picture book for blind and visually impaired children

The finished copies feature a number of tactile, hand-painted versions of key illustrations from the book perfect for children to enjoy, including the characters of Supertato, Evil Pea and others.


Elegantly and chaotically, Rodney Hall falls into the vortex of history

Elegantly and chaotically, Rodney Hall falls into the vortex of history

It draws in a circle of urbane emigrĂ©s, including Mrs Ruxandra HudiƟteanu, a viola player at the Queensland Symphony Orchestra, and Dr Antal BrĂłdy, who has doctorates in philology and philosophy from Budapest and divinity from Vienna, but now works as a wholesale umbrella salesman.


Hay Festival chief feared ‘decimation’ of festival over Baillie Gifford controversy

Hay Festival chief feared ‘decimation’ of festival over Baillie Gifford controversy

Hosted by Stephen Armstrong, the podcast also features insights from lecturer and author Noreen Masud, a member of Fossil Free Books (FBF), writer Mark Lynas, arts consultant Martin Prendergast and The Bookseller’s editor Philip Jones, all offering contrasting points of view on the legitimacy of the campaign and its impact.


Industry pays tribute to late artist and author Graham Rawle

Industry pays tribute to late artist and author Graham Rawle

Rawle’s final book Overland (Chatto & Windus, 2018), set in California in 1942, was inspired by the true story of the US Army’s fabrication of a dummy town on top of the Lockheed Aircraft plant, to camouflage it from potential Japanese aerial attack.


Hannah Arendt wanted political thinking to be urgent and engaged. She is a philosopher for our times

Hannah Arendt wanted political thinking to be urgent and engaged. She is a philosopher for our times

This is why, going against the grain of the triumphalism that greeted the founding of the state of Israel, Arendt lamented that “like virtually all other events of the 20th century, the Jewish question merely produced a new category of refugees, the Arabs, thereby increasing the number of stateless and rightless by 700,00 to 800,000 people”.


Penguin Random House General Portfolio Sessions mentee explains scheme as she gets job with PRH

Penguin Random House General Portfolio Sessions mentee explains scheme as she gets job with PRH

For the portfolio review, Lewis had to submit five pieces of existing design work and PRH explained selections are made based on "creative potential in one of four areas: conceptual thinking, typography, illustrative flair, composition".


How Wall Street’s glass ceiling was finally shattered by pioneering NYC ‘She-Wolves’

How Wall Street’s glass ceiling was finally shattered by pioneering NYC ‘She-Wolves’

And daily, a macho crowd of clerks and traders gathered — some even climbing lampposts and trees — to get a better view of the 5-foot-4 young lady dubbed “the Sweater Girl” as she emerged from the subway in what became known as “The Great Wall Street Titty Riot,” circa 1968.


The Jhalak Prize unveils new poetry award as submissions open for 2025

The Jhalak Prize unveils new poetry award as submissions open for 2025

The award’s focus on addressing disparity for people of colour within the publishing industry was an inspiration when, in 2021, the web zine set up its editing internship programme for UK-based poets from the global majority.