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Alarm grew in France on Friday over the fate of a prominent French-Algerian novelist detained in the country of his birth, with his publisher urging his immediate release and President Emmanuel Macron closely following the case.

8th Note Press, an imprint launched by ByteDance, will print novels in genres popular on BookTok including YA and contemporary fiction and ‘romantasy’

Brolin’s verses about Timothée Chalamet and Florence Pugh have now found their way into a London art gallery in the form of Dune: Exposures

France says it's "very concerned" about the disappearance of French-Algerian writer Boualem Sansal, who has not been heard from since he was reportedly taken into police custody upon his arrival in Algeria on Saturday. Sansal is a well-known critic of Algeria’s government and a vocal opponent of Islamic fundamentalism.

I always knew football draws to the surface a whole well of emotion. What I didn’t know was I too contained such a well

Uncommon Courses is an occasional series from The Conversation U.S. highlighting unconventional approaches to teaching.

The six entries in the running for the short story prize for unpublished writers of colour, share a common interest in ‘exploring interiority and the nature of human existence’

Narrators Lydia Leonard and Lee Ingleby capture the wit and wisdom at the heart of the One Day author’s story of a hike in the Lake District

Defense secretary pick said in 2020 that should Democrats win election the military ‘will be forced to make a choice’

The book goes back to Geralt's "teenage years"

The novelist on the comfort of Dodie Smith, how Anne Tyler made her want to be a writer – and why she doesn’t reread books