March 19, 2015

The CIA, like other intelligence communities around the world, has long formulated psychological and political profiles of world leaders in order to prepare Presidents for meetings and foreign affairs decisions.… 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

Experts are thrilled (and relieved) to ID Cervantes remains

Taylor Sperry

Forensic scientists in Madrid are packing up their infrared cameras and their 3D scanners now that they’ve definitively identified the remains of Miguel de Cervantes, the great Spanish author of… Read more »

The next Zoella book is being published this November

Liam O’Brien

The council of bookselling elders took their seats around the ceremonial stone table. The firelight cast a shifting, uneasy glow across the table’s surface, no doubt echoing the group’s collective… Read more »

Library innovation and advocacy teams attend SXSW

Claire Kelley

Librarians with the volunteer group lib*interactive and advocacy organization EveryLibrary traveled to the South by Southwest conference in Austin, Texas this week to participate in presentations on innovation in libraries.… Read more »

Roberto Bolaño hits the jackpot

Julia Fleischaker

Roy Cockrum is a better person than (probably) you and (I’m pretty sure) I am. Do you ever think about what you would do if you won the lottery? Travel? Quit… Read more »

Melville House Books

Did Ronald Reagan hate reading?

Manuela Silvestre