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Over 8,000 authors including Booker-winners Margaret Atwood and George Saunders, and bestselling writers Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Egan, among others have signed an open letter to Generative AI Leaders asking them to seek permission, give due credits and fairly compensate writers for using their copyrighted works to train AI.

The cult US author talks about losing her father during the pandemic, deadpan comedy – and why she wrote her long-awaited new novel in secret

The oldest known library, dating back to the second millennium BC, in Thebes, Egypt, reportedly bore a sign above its portals in Greek: Psyches Iatreion, translated as “healing place of the soul”.

The road to the Super Bowl goes through Kansas City and Philadelphia for now, but there’s a host of hot teams climbing into contention.

A preview of the NZ-bound writer's novel

In this week’s newsletter: Martin McDonagh’s sad, funny Banshees of Inisherin has unexpected moments of true gruesomeness – just like every other hit these days

The characters in these absurdly funny stories are trapped by hyper-capitalism and their own foolishness, as Saunders investigates the prisons we make for ourselves

This week’s bookcase includes reviews of Liberation Day by George Saunders and Our Share Of Night by Mariana Enriquez.

The Lincoln in the Bardo author reinvents the possibilities of the short story in this wonderfully absurd return to the form