April 19, 2013

In a little-reported move, Benjamin Schwarz has left The Atlantic. Since 2000, Schwarz has edited the Atlantic’s books and ideas section, which published reviews and essays by Christopher Hitchens, B.R. Myers, Caitlin Flanagan, Perry… Read more »

Arts & Culture

Salman Rushdie, Ian Rankin and Joanne Harris amongst those recognised in the Queen’s birthday honours list — Nikki Griffiths
Lost Charlotte Brontë manuscript sold for $1.25 million — Nikki Griffiths
Waterstones appeal aims to raise £1m for Ukraine disaster fund — Tom Clayton
The Big Jubilee Read: 70 books are selected to mark Queen Elizabeth II's 70 year reign — Nikki Griffiths

Put Down Old People at Birth, and other writings discovered in the Scarfolk archive

Zeljka Marosevic

Anyone who, like me, grew up in the North West of England will tell you that a childhood spent in Northern suburbia was a spooky one: eerie, identical streets, weird… Read more »

Literary L.A.: 72 suburbs in search of an author

Kirsten Reach

The L.A. Times just unveiled an interactive map of literary L.A., just in case you happen to be there for the L.A. Times Festival of Books. Or, if you’re not, you… Read more »

Are picture books making kids materialistic?

Claire Kelley

While working as a babysitter and nanny, University of Vermont student Rachel Franz, a double-minor in studio art and green building and community design, noticed that many of the picture… Read more »

Poetry in your pocket

Jay McNair

I use few apps. The latest iPhone’s glamorous five rows mean little to me, since I hardly fill two on mine. Yet an app’s to blame for the fact that… Read more »

Melville House Books

Benjamin Schwarz out at The Atlantic

Kelly Burdick