AGP Executive Report
Last update: 12 hours agoCrime & Faith in Fiction: A Swedish religious-studies researcher says Christian characters in best-selling crime novels are often portrayed as hypocrites, bigots, or violent—raising questions about how faith gets framed in popular storytelling. Book Review (London): Kit Fan’s Goodbye Chinatown is reviewed as a chef’s elegy to a changing London neighborhood, anchored in family, food, and the end of an era. New Fiction Releases: Montag Press announces the final novel in Vande Zande’s trilogy; and Casey Moores and Jamie Ibson launch a comedic sci-fi trilogy opener, Buff Orpington versus the League of Conspicuous Evil. Literary Events: Tidelines Book Festival previews a new Darkland Tales collaboration with Val McDermid and Jo Sharp. Poetry & Culture: A haiku monument in Japan honors EU’s first president Herman Van Rompuy, linking verse to a local rescue story. AI & Reading/Writing: A new look at AI in cybersecurity finds practitioners trust it for structured tasks but not for novel, high-stakes calls.
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