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Luxembourg (unofficial motto: “The Delaware of Europe”) is in the spotlight yet again. In a previous MobyLives piece, we discussed the European Commission’s ongoing probe into Amazon’s tax payments, or lack… Read more »

Lore Segal’s Half The Kingdom, a New York Times Notable Book, is now out in paperback. In Half the Kingdom, the renowned New Yorker writer and Pulitzer Prize finalist Lore Segal creates a hilarious, poignant, and profoundly moving… Read more »

After years in court and a ruling in March, the dust is finally settling around the fight over digital rights to Jean Craighead George’s classic YA novel, Julie of the… Read more »

Liyuan Library is a tourist destination. Many go there not in order to read the books but to stand inside an architectural marvel. And now there will be more tourists planning to visit, because its architect, Li Xiaodong, has… Read more »

A video showing Texas two-year-old Elizabeth Christensen naming the parts of the body has gone viral. She learned to identify the liver, lungs, intestines, brain, heart and stomach in an anatomy… Read more »