AI is reshaping publishing, but the debate sparked by Hachette’s withdrawn
Shy Girl shows that authorship, trust, and transparency still matter. As AI use becomes inevitable, publishers must define and defend what a genuinely human-authored book means.
Read More…Pushing the Wave 2024 by L.A. Davenport is published today, bringing together a year of essays, travel writing, and visual work. Available now in paperback and hardback from P-Wave Press.
Read More… How private letters shaped public reputation in
The Coquette. A reflection on communication, judgement and the fragility of privacy then and now.
Read More…Why does Hermsprong insist on travelling everywhere on foot? In late eighteenth-century Britain, walking signalled social rank, and Bage turns that simple act into a quiet challenge to the hierarchy of polite society.
Read More…The real-life tragedy behind
The Coquette. How Elizabeth Whitman’s story became one of early America’s most enduring novels.
Read More…This week’s #TuesdayBookClub is
Identity by Francis Fukuyama, a sharp and urgent exploration of identity politics, recognition and the forces shaping modern division. Whether you agree with him or not, he forces you to think about how we arrived here.
Read More…P-Wave Classics publishes Volume I of Robert Bage’s
Hermsprong (1796), restoring the radical novel to its original three-volume form. A bold satire of privilege and power, newly introduced and annotated.
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