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Run PostgreSQL in Python — No Setup Required Love PostgreSQL as a database, but hate having to provision it for your Python programs? The pgserver library spins up a no-maintenance, self-contained ...

Ballantine bets big on culture writer Marjon Carlos’s memoir-in-essays, FSG’s science imprint takes a primer from mathematician Terry Tao, and more.