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Amazon’s Goodreads builds community, but breeds division. Indie rival StoryGraph is playing it safe – and gaining ground

“Review bombing” – where authors receive a multitude of one-star reviews intended to lower their overall rating – has become a persistent...

Julian Novitz

‘When all novels are thrust upon you as words of genius,’ wrote George Orwell, ‘it is quite natural to assume that all of them are tripe.’

Publishing is one of many fields poised for disruption by tech companies and artificial intelligence (AI). New platforms and approaches, like a...

Richard Powers’ latest novel Playground draws a distinction between two different kinds of games. There are finite games that we play to win: the...

The unnamed narrator of Patrick Holland’s Oblivion begins the novel contently, if not happily adrift. An Australian nominally based in Beijing, he...