‘On the inside I felt a rage’: Antoinette Lattouf on emerging from her bruising battle with the ABC
The former presenter says she took strength from other women’s achievements as she researched her new book during federal court case
David Fairhall obituary
Guardian defence, aviation, shipping and nuclear specialist with a lifelong love of sailing
Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams audiobook review – the insider story that Meta tried to stifle
The author reads her account of her time as a senior executive at Facebook with a mixture of dark humour and astonishment at the working culture in which she finds herself
‘They’re supposed to be handmade’: zine creators fight to resist AI influence
Artists and writers argue scrappy nature of self-published booklets is incompatible with artificial intelligence
The one change that worked: I swapped doomscrolling for reading comic books
After Donald Trump’s second election, I realised the insidious hold my phone had over my life. So I turned to something I’d loved in childhood to better occupy my attention
University of Queensland Press cancels children’s book over illustrator’s post on ‘Zionist framing’ of Bondi attack
Authors including Evelyn Araluen and Melissa Lucashenko say they won’t work with publisher after it dumps Jazz Money’s book illustrated by Matt Chun, who called Bondi victims ‘affluent beneficiaries of imperialism’
The Black Death by Thomas Asbridge review – a medieval horror story
A magisterial history of one of the worst ever pandemics focuses on the individuals caught up in the chaos
Modern heroes and a ravaged Earth: reboot of 1950s space comic Dan Dare has liftoff
Beloved characters reinvented in graphic novel coming later this year – just as interest rockets in all things space
‘Soon publishers won’t stand a chance’: literary world in struggle to detect AI-written books
US release of horror novel Shy Girl cancelled and UK book discontinued after suspected AI use, as publishers feel ‘cold shiver’
Tony Gould obituary
Other lives: Literary editor of New Society and New Statesman who wrote a social history of polio, a disease he contracted in his late teens
Official BookTok chart set to launch in the UK
Offering a monthly Top 20 rundown, the ranking will combine retail sales data with social media engagement on TikTok
‘I said no, then I just gave up’: Brooke Nevils on her sexual assault claims about one of TV’s biggest stars
The former NBC producer says she was repeatedly assaulted by Matt Lauer, an anchor at the network – then spent years blaming herself in the aftermath. She talks about power, preconceptions and life after #MeToo
Worried about the demise of reading? Come to France, where we’re up to our eyes in print
From hefty literary magazines to thriving book sales, the French publishing industry refuses to let printed matter die, says Paris-based writer Alexander Hurst
Drusilla Beyfus obituary
Stylish newspaper and magazine journalist who enjoyed great success with her book Modern Manners, a guide to etiquette
Arts Council England faces legal threat over magazine’s withdrawal of poet’s work
Publicly funded journal pulled poem citing writer’s ‘social media presence’, with solicitors alleging discrimination over gender-critical views