November 21, 2014

Built in 1841, the large, Greek Revival building at 55 Wall Street has housed the New York Merchants Exchange, the United States Custom House, and the National City Bank—the earlier,… Read more »

Authors

Salman Rushdie, Ian Rankin and Joanne Harris amongst those recognised in the Queen’s birthday honours list — Nikki Griffiths
Joanne Harris suggests some "parents, largely fathers" perceive reading as "girly" — Tom Clayton
Waterstones appeal aims to raise £1m for Ukraine disaster fund — Tom Clayton
Returning an ebook after reading: is Amazon's return policy damaging to authors and publishers? — Nikki Griffiths

Call the Delinquency Brigade! French Manuscript Museum Raided

Zeljka Marosevic

Dodgy dealings in Paris were revealed this week when the Musée des Lettres et Manuscrits, which contains a significant collection of manuscripts and old letters, was raided on Tuesday, according… Read more »

Plagiarism! It’s not just for Americans anymore

Sal Robinson

France has long been the nation to whom we callow Americans look for probity in intellectual matters and laxity in sexual ones. Their presidents always have at least one current… Read more »

Hachette buys Black Dog & Leventhal

Kirsten Reach

Hachette bought Black Dog & Leventhal yesterday. Even your grandparents have been following the Hachette news by now. If you’d call more, they’d tell you about it. Have you been… Read more »

Barbie’s ambitions of being a computer engineer are impossible without the help of her male friends

Wah-Ming Chang

Barbie makes a couple of laptops crash. Oops: a virus has gotten in! But instead of fixing the problem herself—after all, she had brains enough to design a program instructing… Read more »

Melville House Books

A call to action: on the 2014 National Book Awards

Mark Krotov