April 11, 2014

Hurrah! Britain’s unbeloved culture secretary, Maria Miller, has left the building. Miller was responsible for an 8% cut in government spending on the arts, and will be remembered for urging… 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

Rizzoli Bookstore closes its storied space on 57th Street

Kirsten Reach

Rizzoli Bookstore, with its glittering chandelier and stories upon stories of art books, is probably closing for good today. The Vornado Realty Trust and the Lefrak family, who own the… Read more »

What’s better for translated literature: starting a publishing house or publicizing what’s already available?

Sal Robinson

Last week saw an interesting, and surprisingly combative, exchange between a couple of important voices in the world of translation. It was all kicked off by a blogpost in the… Read more »

Mapping the language we use to describe surveillance

Julia Fleischaker

PEN America recently finished a 62 day Surveillance Metaphor Mapping Project, tracking the language that journalists use most often to describe government surveillance. They looked at 133 articles, by 105… Read more »

Should you date a librarian?

Claire Kelley

So you’ve been spending time at the library lately. You notice a cute librarian that you’d like to ask out on a date, but you’re not sure what to do. Fortunately,… Read more »

Melville House Books

Replacing Maria Miller with Sajid Javid means more of the same for British culture

Zeljka Marosevic