September 28, 2016

We’ve recently written about a venerable dictionary publisher admonishing mankind for its racism and intolerance on Twitter. Today, in connection with the Monday night’s first presidential debate, the story is more like a… Read more »

Politics

"Wot, No Books?" Milton Keynes library saved after protesters check out its entire stock — Tom Clayton
Vimes for change: Pratchett character lends name to new food index — Tom Clayton
Melville House author Carissa Véliz backs new U.S. privacy bill — Maya Bradford
Disgraced former health minister in talks to publish new book How I Won the Covid War — Nikki Griffiths

Prisoners in Texas are allowed to read Hitler’s Mein Kampf, but not Jon Stewart’s America

Julia Fleischaker

In a piece published Tuesday at Quartz, Thu-Huong Ha writes: Each US state has their own policies for what books and magazines to let into prisons, and the rules aren’t clear or… Read more »

Why hasn’t a single Kurdish novel been published in English until now?

Kait Howard

Can you name a single Kurdish fiction writer? Probably not. For anyone who thinks that the US and UK have made sufficient progress bringing foreign literature into translation, it may… Read more »

#1000BlackGirlBooks founder releases limited edition ’zine for ELLE.com

Simon Reichley

Earlier this year we wrote about Marley Dias’s quest to gather 1000 books starring black girls and women of color and send them to a low-resources library St. Mary’s, Jamaica.… Read more »

Melville House Books

“Sounds good. Doesn’t work.” Buzzwords from the first presidential debate

Ryan Harrington