This week: Dark Horse Comics is going to the movies, the CBC gives out diversity awards, a famous author gave a boost to library advocacy, bookseller WH Smith bought its way into airports, police are using AI to study writings for lies, supporters bolster an Iowa library after an act of hatred, and the UK prepares to pick a new poet laureate. All this, plus the New York Times and Publisher’s Weekly bestseller lists and the latest news from aois21, Literally This Week.

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