February 10, 2016

Last week, we wrote about ‘Books at Play’, Google’s new project with experimental publisher Visual Editions to create digital reading experiences in the form of “books that cannot be printed.”… 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

Linguistic purists take to Twitter over the circumflex

Kait Howard

Two decades after the Académie Française released new guidelines on the use of one of the quirkier diacritical marks in the French language—the circumflex—public outrage has erupted. The Guardian’s Kim… Read more »

#1000BlackGirlBooks exceeds initial goal

Taylor Sperry

At the end of January we wrote about eleven-year-old Marley Dias’s campaign to collect 1,000 books “where black girls are the main characters in the book and not background characters or… Read more »

You can add Mad Max: Fury Road to the list of things influenced by Moby Dick

Simon Reichley

I didn’t see Mad Max: Fury Road. But a lot of other people did, and it seems like most of them loved it. The movie has been nominated for nine… Read more »

Melville House Books

Leading authors take Google Books copyright appeal to Supreme Court

Zeljka Marosevic