“Come to hell with us, Amazon”… and other Conradian invitations from the world of business I must confess, I never expected a Reuters report on Amazon’s entry into Brazil to end like this: “‘They are going to face the same kind of problems we always… Read more »
Server company for famous literary website 3:AM vanishes — with 12 years’ worth of archives Sad news for fans (like us) of the great British literary website 3:AM — according to a report from the Independent by Nick Clark, the company responsible for its servers… Read more »
The case of the pilfered Codex Calixtinus A priceless 12th-century illuminated manuscript, the Codex Calixtinus, considered one of Spain’s most important cultural and religious treasures, which was stolen a year ago from the cathedral of Santiago de… Read more »
And then all the unmentioned Brooklyn authors bawled in their beers Wait a second. Wait. Drop everything. Hold on. Sit down. Are you sitting down? Are you holding on? Wait. Have you dropped everything? Drop it. Except for your socks. Hold… 1 / Read more »
Erotica and the state of publishing in Yemen It’s not just Fifty Shades of Grey: it seems that erotic literature is having a moment in Yemen, too. The Yemen Observer reports that street-side booksellers in Tahrir Square are… Read more »
A history of the human rights movement The poetry of James Schuyler Noam Chomsky discusses the Occupy Movement Fitzgerald’s 48 alternate endings to Gatsby The problem with Stephen King Reading… Read more »