July 31, 2013

The Independent on Sunday is to lose all of its art critics as of September, as the newspaper makes a series of cuts. Although the paper’s editor, Lisa Markwell has… Read more »

Arts & Culture

York school crowdfunds for 'magical' reading cottage — Tom Clayton
Big Ben goes belly-up in book-based building bonanza — Tom Clayton
Plymouth's RESPECT festival will see people become 'books' for Human Library — Tom Clayton
Simon Armitage begins decade-long UK library tour — Tom Clayton

“Wake-up call” for Twitter from Jane Austen bank note campaigner

Kirsten Reach

Caroline Criado-Perez ran a successful three-month campaign for Jane Austen to appear on a £10 note, and in the wake of her bank note victory, a sustained attack against her… Read more »

Ugandan activists take to publishing books as protest

Political protests in Uganda are taking a turn toward the literary, and meeting with censorship from the government, Rodney Muhumuza reports for the Associated Press. Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has… Read more »

Los Angeles Public Library branches provide free citizenship resources

Claire Kelley

Los Angeles is a city of 3,800,000 residents with more than 700,000 permanent residents who are eligible for citizenship. Many of these permanent residents don’t where to begin the process… Read more »

Failure to Communicate: on Stanislaw Lem’s Solaris

Greg Cwik

Bibliophiles looking for something mind-probing and sort of social to do in Brooklyn this weekend may be in luck: there’s a marathon reading of Stanislaw Lem’s science fiction novel Solaris… Read more »

Melville House Books

The Independent on Sunday axes all of its arts critics

Zeljka Marosevic