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Harry Potter and the really powerful ebooks It was hard to go onto the internet yesterday without having to hear about Harry Potter being a force for world change again. In case you spent the day under… 1 / Read more »
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The Art of War visualized The classic Sun Tzu work The Art of War has been turned into a graphic novel by writer Kelly Roman and illustrator Michael DeWeese. According to GalleyCat, Roman and DeWeese have… Read more »
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New trends in cover design There’s a great post over on the TLS blog about the latest trends in book covers. Gone are the headless women of yesteryear; in recent seasons, David Horspool tells us,… Read more »
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Under the radar, another long-awaited ebook becomes available … Mahmoud Dowlatabadi’s sprawling epic Missing Soluch has been described as The Grapes of Wrath of Iran and in many ways it is a comparable book. Both books have at their core… Read more »
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The Steins Collect: a retrospective of the Parisian avante-garde Understanding the limits of comparison Famous liberal actor quotes fictional CIA director Alyosha, don’t despise me! The British Library champions forgotten… Read more »
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ÖDÖN VON HORVÁTH’s classic in its first English translation Melville House is pleased to announce that Odon von Horvath’s The Eternal Philistine is now available! This never-before translated work by a major yet overlooked mid-20th century writer is a brutally… Read more »
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The Onion: Most read news source in Minnesota, Wisconsin, and New Mexico Jon Bruner of Forbes, with the assistance of Bitly, has created a fascinating map, which shows state by state where news sources are read and shared at above-average levels. Constructed from accumulated data,… Read more »
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Discounted Weekend Read: Alejandro Zambra’s Award-Winning Novel In 2008 Melville House published for the first time in English a debut novel called Bonsai by Chilean author Alejandro Zambra. The book won Chile’s Literary Critics Award for Best… Read more »
