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From Judge Linda Parker's opinion Thursday in U.S. v. Markovitz (E.D. Mich.); the defendant is the author of Topless Prophet: The True Story of America's Most Successful Gentleman's Club Entrepreneur, though the criminal case appears unrelated to the book: Charles Blackwell initiated this miscellaneous action to unseal the sentencing memoranda…

It's an in-depth account of the Seattle company's rise from scrappy underdog to a massive conglomerate.

Outcry over cancellation of Antonio Scurati’s Rai talkshow appearance as note says move was taken ‘for editorial reasons’

A painfully funny cartoon about a neurotic graphic artist deftly explores the themes of self-obsession and ecological disaster

The annual award for aspiring cartoonists offers the chance to be published in the Observer and win £1,000, with past winners landing book and film deals

On Sunday, a large number of judges of the country gathered in the financial capital Mumbai. The occasion was the release of the biography of former Chief Justice of Allahabad High Court Dilip Babasaheb Bhosale. Read full story on Dynamite News:

200 years after the revolutionary Romantic poet’s death, Greeks are celebrating his place in their national pantheon

A promising first novel takes a jazzy, improvised journey with a young woman who has a sudden loss of hearing

French President Emmanuel Macron’s announcement of a new tax on used book sales to protect new books is the latest proposal from a government with a history of intervening in the publishing industry to keep it afloat.