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Academia & Publishing

10 Summer Reads for the Intellectually Curious

Whether you’re planning to do your summer research in the library or out in the field (i.e. on the beach), we hope you’ll spend it with a good book – one from De Gruyter Brill! Find out what our team is reading on vacation this year and get 50% off all titles in our summer sale.

Arts & Humanities

AI Literature: Will ChatGPT Be the Author of Your Next Favourite Novel?

The rise of large language models has generated an online boom in AI-written literature across genres as diverse as bedtime stories for children, sci-fi novellas, autobiographies, and romance novels. But if we can generate entire volumes with nothing but a prompt or two, how will books be conceived in the future? And what impact will ChatGPT have on our notion of literature?

Academia & Publishing

Die Leipziger Buchmesse in der DDR: Ein Interview mit Patricia F. Blume

In einer Zeit der Abschottung und politischen Spannungen, waren es Bücher, die Brücken zwischen Ost und West schlugen – die Leipziger Buchmesse als Knotenpunkt des deutsch-deutschen Kulturaustauschs spielte dabei eine ganz besondere Rolle. Wir sprachen mit der Medien- und Buchwissenschaftlerin Dr. Patricia F. Blume über die Messe als „Fenster zur Welt“, ihre ideologische Funktion, skurrile Klau- und Schmuggelgeschichten und noch vieles mehr.

Academia & Publishing

Book Bans and Biases: Is There a Place for Sexually Explicit Materials in the Library?

Whether American libraries should host sexually explicit content has been a matter of ongoing debate throughout history, and it continues to be a heated topic of discussion today. The persistent failure, however, to recognize patrons as fully embodied human beings with physical and intellectual dimensions reveals deep cultural biases at play.

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