AI can help authors beat writer’s block, says Bloomsbury chief
Publisher last week reported jump in revenue in academic and professional arm thanks to AI licensing deal
Girl boss or tradwife? An economist on how a workforce built for men has failed women
In her new book Having it All, Corinne Low outlines how stubborn expectations around work and home fail to accommodate working women
‘Disorder, fright and confusion’: looking back at the devastating Wall Street crash of 1929
Andrew Ross Sorkin’s new book 1929 takes readers back to the crash that changed the US and looks at what we can learn from it today
Jamie Oliver and his wife pay themselves £2.5m as pre-tax profits slump
Celebrity chef’s media and restaurant empire sees fall in profits despite 6% rise in sales to £28.6m
The Guardian view on rural China: urbanites contemplate an escape to the country
Editorial: Disenchantment with city life, as well as improved infrastructure nationwide, has made the villages look more attractive
Waterstones opens 10 new stores a year as younger adults embrace reading
Bookshop chain says people are keen to escape their screens and says rise in sales is partly down to BookTok
Martyn Cornell obituary
Other lives: Renowned historian of beer who wrote many myth-debunking books on the subject
Trump is ‘remarkably like’ 1930s far-right regimes, billionaire investor warns
Ray Dalio writes in book president wants to ‘dictate’ Maga policies and calls his skirting of democratic norms more ‘aggressive’ than Andrew Jackson and FDR
‘As a film lover, I want more’: the Black female directors taking centre stage
The curator of the BFI’s Black Debutantes season on piracy, truncated careers and the frustrations of dealing with big studios
The future happens in Oakland first. That’s a cautionary tale for global cities
International trade boomed with the city’s early adoption of technological and economic changes, but Black neighborhoods became ‘sacrifice zones’
Is This Working? by Charlie Colenutt review – labours of love in unexpected places
The author’s study of UK workers and their feelings about their jobs uncovers mushrooming red tape and an enduring sense of fatigue, but also a sense of pride
Peter Honey obituary
Other lives: Behavioural psychologist, management consultant and author of more than 40 books
‘Dark and dingy’ or ‘a real loss’? Shoppers react to possible loss of WH Smith
Stevenage is one of 500 UK towns where threatened closures will affect local retailers and the publishing trade
WH Smith sale could turn high street into ‘book desert’, authors say
The retailer is in talks to sell its 500 high street stores, which could be a ‘nail in the coffin for British writers’
Australian independent publishing stalwart Text acquired by global giant Penguin Random House
Local publishing house says it will ‘retain creative control’ and no redundancies are planned for Melbourne office