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PEN America: 4,349 books were removed from US schools across 23 states from July 2023 to December 2023, up from 3,362 books in the entire previous academic year (Alexandra Alter/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/16/books/book-bans-public-school…

Book Bans Continue to Surge in Public Schools
More books were removed during the first half of this academic year than in the entire previous one.

Survey finds generative AI proving major threat to the work of translators | Books | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/apr/16/survey-finds-generative-ai-proving-major-threat-to-the-work-of-tr…

Looking for a warm, awkward, funny, life-affirming but never sentimental novel? Highly recommended the #LandOfShortSentences by Stine Pilgaard - book number 11 in 2024
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New OpenAccess book published: *The Brain Abstracted*, by philosopher of science Mazviita Chirimuuta
https://direct.mit.edu/books/oa-monograph/5741/The-Brain-AbstractedSimplification-in-the-History
I highly recommen…

The Brain Abstracted: Simplification in the History and Philosophy of Neuroscience
An exciting, new framework for interpreting the philosophical significance of neuroscience.All science needs to simplify, but when the object of research is som

The CIA’s former master of disguise tells her story
Jonna Mendez’s engaging and enlightening “In True Face,” is an important addition to the canon of nonfiction books about an institution encrusted in myths created by movies, television, novels, hostile intelligence services and, occasionally, the agency itself.
This book, written with Wyndham Wood, is filled with adventures and operations whose details, somewhat to my astonishment, have escaped the gimlet eyes of the censors at…

The CIA’s former master of disguise tells her story
Pathbreaking CIA officer Jonna Mendez takes off her mask for her autobiography, “In True Face.”

Survey finds generative AI proving major threat to the work of translators | Books | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/apr/16/survey-finds-generative-ai-proving-major-threat-to-the-work-of-tr…

Hundreds of Small Presses Just Lost Their Distributor. Now What? - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/17/books/small-press-distribution-closure.html

Hundreds of Small Presses Just Lost Their Distributor. Now What?
A nonprofit that distributed books for many of the country’s small presses has closed, and the fallout could affect the publishing industry in ways both big and small.

American Library Association report says book challenges reached a record high on 4,240 in 2023, up from 2,571 in 2022 (Alexandra Alter/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/14/books/book-bans.html

Attempts to Ban Books Accelerated in 2023
Book challenges around the country reached the highest levels ever recorded by a library organization.

Hundreds of Small Presses Just Lost Their Distributor. Now What? - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/17/books/small-press-distribution-closure.html

Hundreds of Small Presses Just Lost Their Distributor. Now What?
A nonprofit that distributed books for many of the country’s small presses has closed, and the fallout could affect the publishing industry in ways both big and small.

Welcome to the London Book Fair, Where Everyone Knows Their Place - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/15/books/london-book-fair.html

Welcome to the London Book Fair, Where Everyone Knows Their Place
If you want to understand the power map of the publishing industry, just look at this event’s floor plan.