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Actress and writer Issa Rae speaks at the Fast Company Innovation Festival in New York in 2024. Her new microdrama, ‘Screen Time,’ has already garnered over 100 million views. Eugene Gologursky/Getty Images for Fast Company

TikTok’s popular microdramas shrink TV into bite‑sized chunks

As TikTok invests in short-form scripted series, it’s leaning into the same storytelling, advertising and viewing habits that defined television.
This year’s shortlisted books, described by the Booker judges as ‘remarkable’. India Hobson for Booker Prize Foundation

International Booker Prize 2026: heartbreak, brutality, shapeshifting – six experts review the nominees

Novelists and translators from Bulgaria to Brazil make up this this year’s impressive shortlist.
University researchers collaborated with an Indonesian community of fisherwomen directly affected by climate change to create an illustrated book. Puspita Bahari & University of Leeds (2024)

Five ways that illustrations can tell climate justice stories

How working with fishing communities in Indonesia has led to the co-creation of an illustrated book that highlights climate justice issues.
Dorothy Allison channeled her impoverished childhood into a richly crafted world that retained its gritty origins. Sophie Bassouls/Sygma via Getty Images

Dorothy Allison was an authentic voice for the poor, capturing the beauty, humor and pain of working‑class life in America

Even though her most famous work, ‘Bastard out of Carolina,’ deals with physical and sexual abuse, this merely constitutes one element of a broader emotional and physical landscape.

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