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Amazon’s Goodreads builds community, but breeds division. Indie rival StoryGraph is playing it safe – and gaining ground

Reading, once a largely private activity, has become more public and communal with the emergence of book-centred social media spaces. But while the “BookTok” and “Bookstagram” communities are often in the news, Goodreads, founded in 2006 and estimated to have 150 million users, was arguably the first digital network to…

The Conversation · Feb 26, 2025

What's wrong with a love story between a Black progressive woman and a white conservative man?

Must we accommodate political differences in our closest relationships? Or should politics and doing what’s right trump love and happiness?

The Conversation · Aug 20, 2023

Summer books: the hottest novels to bring you holiday bliss, whatever the weather

Whether you fancy a politicised love story, a look into the lives of the super-rich or the fictional autobiography of a medieval mystic, Alex Peake-Tomkinson has the coolest must-reads to distract — whatever the extreme weather

Evening Standard · Aug 4, 2023