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Slideshows

• Bookseller sculpts unwanted books into art

  This week, the British Academy is celebrating Literature Week, five days of events including an evening of William Shakespeare at the Globe Theatre, lectures, and poetry readings. Throughout the week,… Read more »

• Eleven tactics to keep your reading choice a secret

  Over at the Literary Saloon Michael Orthofer discusses the secrecy with which the Nobel committee must read over the works that have been nominated, lest the names of those under consideration… Read more »

• Slideshow: Interpreting the stoop books of Brooklyn

  My new favorite blog (as of half an hour ago, after The New Inquiry Sunday Reading pointed me there—and yes I’m using the word ‘favorite’ pretty loosely) is Stoop Books… Read more »

• Cataloging Guantanamo: inside the detention camp’s library

  Although Barack Obama came into office promising to shut down the Guantanamo Bay detention camp, both that promise and the prison itself have largely and unfortunately been ignored by both… Read more »

• Seven great escapes in children’s literature

  E.L. Konigsburg, author of the classic children’s book From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, which tells the story of a brother and sister who run away to live… Read more »

• Get to know Granta’s new novelists

  We know, it’s tough. You’ve only just now managed to finish Midnight’s Children and Granta goes and announces its list of Best of Young British Novelists. 20 new writers you… Read more »

• SLIDESHOW: Shipping container libraries and other creative spaces

  Batu, Indonesia’s new library and clinic opened its doors at the end of March. Built by dpavilion Architects, the Amin library is an eight room educational center with 6,000 books… Read more »

• 7 books that should win the Pulitzer for fiction this year

  The Pulitzer Prizes will be announced today, and after last year’s absurd refusal to award the prize for fiction, the engine of anticipation is running hot. With that in mind,… Read more »

• Kim Il Sung, the “Eternal Leader” of North Korea, was born 101 years ago today

  Kim Il Sung, the first leader of North Korea, was born 101 years ago today. Kim led the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea from 1948 until his death in 1994, serving as… Read more »

• 5 writers on Margaret Thatcher (and 5 songs she inspired)

  Margaret Thatcher, Britain’s first and only female Prime Minister, died yesterday at the age of 87. Over the course of her 11 year reign, Thatcher sold every government asset that… Read more »