June 29, 2015

When is it okay to kill a journalist? If you want the answer, you’re going to have to work for it. One problem with important literature is that it’s long… 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

New TV adaptation of classic children’s book to be less salacious than its source material

Mark Krotov

The Swallows and Amazons series is a classic of British children’s literature. Between 1930 and 1947, Arthur Ransome published twelve books in the series, which followed groups of children on… Read more »

Harry Potter takes to the London stage

Nick Davies

J.K. Rowling, creator of Mrs. Norris and the Marauder’s Map, has been giving Harry Potter fans a lot to be happy about lately, from confirming the existence (or, you know,… Read more »

Lewis Carroll’s “Alice” comes to the Morgan Library

Taylor Sperry

For the first time in 30 years, the original manuscript of Lewis Carroll’s classic Alice in Wonderland will travel from London’s British Library to the Morgan Library in New York,… Read more »

Melville House Books

I’m reading the new Law Of War Manual so you don’t have to

Liam O’Brien