May 10, 2019

The Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize hasn’t had the best form since its inauguration in 2000. The only big award in the UK to celebrate comic literature, it has shamefully just three… Read more »

Awards and ceremonies

Salman Rushdie, Ian Rankin and Joanne Harris amongst those recognised in the Queen’s birthday honours list — Nikki Griffiths
Geetanjali Shree becomes first Indian winner of International Booker Prize — Nikki Griffiths
Footballer Marcus Rashford's mum accepts Book of the Year award on his behalf — Tom Clayton
Pulitzer winners and finalists offer new perspectives — Julianna Yablans

Day of the shred: interactive PC game invites you to destroy a book

Tom Clayton

In a move that will prompt shocked-face emojis across the publishing world, Bristol-based indie game developer Alistair Aitcheson has released The Book Ritual, an “interactive art-piece played using a real-world book of… Read more »

Testing out Google’s poem generator

Michael Seidlinger

Earlier this week, Google launched its AI poem generator, PoemPortraits, and you bet people all over the internet are tossing everything they can at it. How it works? It’s really… Read more »

Melville House Books

Are women funny? Prize news confirms yes, of course they bloody are

Nikki Griffiths

Day of the shred: interactive PC game invites you to destroy a book

Tom Clayton

Testing out Google’s poem generator

Michael Seidlinger