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The first book-length study of digital literature in Africa has attracted a lot of academic attention. African Literature in the Digital Age: Class and Sexual Politics in New Writing from Kenya and Nigeria considers the role of the internet and new media in finding and shaping new audiences for literature.…

Walter Isaacson told Morning Joe Mr Musk has ‘many personalities’

Widespread access to world’s richest man allowed biographer Walter Isaacson to detail a number of illuminating anecdotes

The author and journalist left The Guardian last year citing an ‘atmosphere of fear’ around gender issues. She tells Katie Strick about her fight for freedom of speech, her new book and why she refuses to be silenced

A Q&A on doppelgangers, celebrity, and searching for answers

Revelation comes from a new biography about the Tesla founder

Our writer details what it’s like having the same name as a much worse conspiracy theorist than Naomi Wolf

Two authors of Indian heritage, Nandini Das and Kris Manjapra, are shortlisted for the 2023 British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding.

The SpaceX founder told the memoir’s author that he is often a ‘fool for love’

The Nobel winner’s short memoir takes an episode of domestic violence when she was 12 as inspiration for a deft and powerful study of her childhood self

A judge has ruled that a commission created last year to enforce ethics rules for New York state’s employees and elected officials is unconstitutional because it is too independent