Literature

How AI books sneak their way into stores

Over the past several months, a string of AI-related scandals has unsettled the literary world.

Odysseus from Odyssey wasn’t real, but he had real worshippers in ancient Ithaca

Hollywood actor Matt Damon in The Odyssey.

Here’s what Greeks think of Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey – it’s their story, after all

A scene in The Odyssey depicting how in Greek mythology, Odysseus devised the Trojan horse that allowed Greek soldiers to infiltrate and conquer the city of Troy.

New York army veteran in custody after fire set outside ICE offices

A New York City Fire Department (FDNY) truck stands parked outside 26 Federal Plaza, which houses the FBI's New York City field office and the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) field office, following reports that a person deployed an incendiary device, in New York City, U.S., July 20, 2026. REUTERS/David Dee Delgado

Christopher Nolan and the anxiety of making The Odyssey, filmed entirely in IMAX

Director Christopher Nolan (left) on the set of The Odyssey.

Singaporean ex-teacher Joyce Chng, 51, shortlisted for British Fantasy Awards

Joyce Chng’s retrospective collection Wolf’s Path (2025) is one of five candidates in the Best Collection category in the British Fantasy Awards.

Six Georgians jailed for theft of rare Russian books in France

A 1842 first edition of Nikolai Gogol’s Dead Souls at the Tartu University Library in Tartu, Estonia, on April 29, 2024. Valuable works by Russian masters have been disappearing from libraries across Europe.

Was a story that just won a literary prize AI-generated?

The Commonwealth Short Story Prize drew attention from readers who suspected that one of its winning stories, The Serpent In The Grove, was written by AI.

Cultural Medallion recipient J.M. Sali, pillar of Tamil literature, dies aged 87

J.M. Sali received the Cultural Medallion for Literary Arts in 2012.

Over 1,100 SingLit book titles added to SG Culture Pass list

Book displays bearing SG Culture Pass stickers at the Books Kinokuniya main store in Takashimaya Shopping Centre.

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