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No means yes: why is Barnes & Noble selling Amazon’s Penny Marshall bio? “It’s something the company was quite clear about”… Read more »
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China’s Foreign Language Press celebrates 60 years Although every country expects to export its culture in a roundabout way through books, there aren’t many publishers left for whom that is their sole purpose. The Chinese Foreign Languages Press… Read more »
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Banned Book Week: a go-round It is one of the timeless truths of literature that any book worth being banned is one worth being read. Any book with something in it that could inspire indignant… Read more »
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The true adventures of the real life Tom Sawyer As we sit on our hands and wait for Volume Two of the University of California Press’ edition of Mark Twain’s autobiography to issue forth, with heft and hilarity, Robert… Read more »
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Europe’s oldest women’s history collection saved The Women’s Library, reports the Guardian’s Caroline Davies, has just been saved from closing by the London School of Economics and Political Science. Suffragist Millicent Fawcett founded the collection in 1926, and… Read more »
