Art historian Alka Pande is multi-tasking. When talking about book cover design in the run-up to the Oxford Bookstore Book Cover Prize announcement anytime this month, she cuts out to handle something else for a minute. Book covers have been around as long as books have, of course, but in recent years, a few things have put them in the …
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A U.S.-based publisher came under fire this week after announcing it was moving forward with a book cover that may contain an image created with artificial intelligence, despite opposition from authors, readers, and illustrators. Tor Books, an imprint of the Tor Publishing Group which publishes works of fantasy and science fiction, said it did not know that an image it …
When Republicans across the nation started storming school board meetings, in full-blown hysterics about something called "critical race theory," the initial reaction of the non-Fox News-watcher was confusion. But soon it became clear that "critical race theory" was being invoked as a scare term, exploiting this multisyllabic academic jargon as cover for what was, in actuality, an effort to censor …
