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A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice A New Yorker Best Book of 2024 So Far A fascinating and original history of an idea that now controls and monetizes almost everything we do. Copyright is everywhere. Your smartphone incorporates thousands of items of intellectual property. Someone owns t... Read More about Who Owns This Sentence?: A History of Copyrights and Wrongs

"One of the great novels of the century. Suddenly and unexpectedly, the late 20th century has produced a novel on the level of Joyce, Proust, Mann, Kafka, and Nabokov."--Boston Globe Structured around a single moment in time -- 8:00 p.m. on June 23, 1975 -- Perec's spellbinding puzzle begins in an... Read More about Life a User's Manual (Verba Mundi #18)

“A writer as comfortable with reality as with fiction, with passion as with reason.” —John Le CarréIn Simenon’s iconic first novel featuring Inspector Maigret, the laconic detective is taken from grimy bars to luxury hotels as he traces a fraudster’s true identityInspector Jules Maigret, a taciturn ... Read More about Pietr the Latvian (Inspector Maigret #1)

Copyright is everywhere. Your smartphone incorporates thousands of items of intellectual property. Someone owns the reproduction rights to photographs of your dining table. At this very moment, battles are raging over copyright in the output of artificial intelligence programs. Not only books but wa... Read More about Who Owns This Sentence?: A History of Copyrights and Wrongs

Copyright is everywhere. Your smartphone incorporates thousands of items of intellectual property. Someone owns the reproduction rights to photographs of your dining table. At this very moment, battles are raging over copyright in the output of artificial intelligence programs. Not only books but wa... Read More about Who Owns This Sentence?: A History of Copyrights and Wrongs