It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a man of letters, in possession of a goodly number of books, must be in need of a ladder.

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Saraswati’ was launched in Allahabad, by a Bengali gentleman. Beyond setting a new benchmark in Hindi literature, Saraswati ...

Joop Berkhout, a naturalized Nigerian (originally Dutch), who passed away in Ibadan recently at age 94, was clearly a doyen of publishing, having served ...

Calculating Empires’, the award-winning work by Kate Crawford and Vladan Joler, is a fascinating map that explores the ...

Technology has always been a transformative—and often disruptive—force in the media ecosystem. From Johannes Gutenberg’s invention of the printing press in 1450 to Samuel Morse’s telegraph in 1837, ...

In 1440, Johannes Gutenberg brought Europe the printing press, an invention that broke the monopoly on knowledge previously held by elites. DeepSeek’s achievement joins this tradition of making ...