Government won’t support international copyright treaty to benefit the blind In the wake of an influx of new reading formats, from graphic novels to tablets, it’s often forgotten that access to books has not improved for the blind. This is… Read more »
Italy’s anti-mafia literary festival The second annual “Trame” (“Plots” in English) literary festival was held at the end of June this year in southern Italy. It is billed on the festival website as the… Read more »
Gutenberg in the copy shop I like businesses and gadgets that aim to bridge some technological transition—for instance, the machines advertised in Hammacher Schlemmer that convert your LPs into CDs, and now into digital formats.… Read more »
SLIDESHOW: Little Free Libraries in Toronto Toronto is the latest city to embrace Little Free Libraries, the international movement featured on MobyLives in February. Little Free Libraries do exactly what they say on the tin —… Read more »
Choose your own Hemingway adventure Ernest Hemingway’s second novel, A Farewell to Arms, has just come out in a new edition from Scribner, and for the first time, it includes the various alternate endings to the… Read more »
Love letter to Encyclopedia Brown Online browsing of scientific research Reading previous Booker Prize winners Utopia is repulsive to Amis Can the mind transcend matter? The lost Katherine Mansfield story… Read more »