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Absolutely beautiful.” Those were John Hunt’s words on listening to “The Humming Chorus”, an interlude of haunting melancholy in Puccini’s Madama Butterfly. It was chosen to intensify a moment of ...

Shut up, Richard.

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AI is threatening plenty of occupations, and the book publishing industry is no exception. Writers and authors made the list in Microsoft’s July 2025 study, which found that jobs related to written ...