February 17, 2016

Last week saw big changes in British journalism. First, the dramatic news came that The Independent and The Independent on Sunday print editions would cease publication in March. After 30 years,… Read more »

Arts & Culture

York school crowdfunds for 'magical' reading cottage — Tom Clayton
Big Ben goes belly-up in book-based building bonanza — Tom Clayton
Plymouth's RESPECT festival will see people become 'books' for Human Library — Tom Clayton
Simon Armitage begins decade-long UK library tour — Tom Clayton

And Jesus wept …

Dennis Johnson

In its twenty year history, the three most notable things about Amazon may be: 1) That it didn’t even try to make a profit for those twenty years and somehow was heralded… Read more »

Scratch The Corrections—Jonathan Franzen’s Purity to be adapted for TV

Kait Howard

Only five months after Purity was published, Jonathan Franzen may reignite the vitriol of his critics by collaborating on a major television adaptation of his widely praised and widely maligned… Read more »

Two new(ish) poems by J. R. R. Tolkien

Taylor Sperry

While he’s best known as the author of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings (which has a staggering 150 million copies in print worldwide), J. R. R. Tolkien was… Read more »

Melville House Books

All change in British journalism

Zeljka Marosevic