October 12, 2016

Sajia Darwish, extraordinarily just a junior at Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts, has opened the Baale Parwaz Library (BPL) in a public school in her home country of Afghanistan. It’s… Read more »

Libraries & librarians

Fundraiser sends more than 5,000 books to Ethiopia’s largest library — Nikki Griffiths
The Big Jubilee Read: 70 books are selected to mark Queen Elizabeth II's 70 year reign — Nikki Griffiths
Theories abound after anonymous return of Darwin's notebooks — Tom Clayton
"Wot, No Books?" Milton Keynes library saved after protesters check out its entire stock — Tom Clayton

Penguin Random House UK is dealing with their lack of diversity #WriteNow

Simon Reichley

There has been plenty of discussion about the embarrassing lack of diversity in publishing this year. Sadly, solutions have been hard to come by. Penguin Random House UK—that nation’s largest… Read more »

Consult your lawyer before you sell that signed Neil Gaiman: a California collectibles law update

Kait Howard

Last week, we wrote about California booksellers concerned that a new state law regulating the sale of signed memorabilia could inadvertently affect their businesses. In a series of blog posts,… Read more »

Saluting two fallen bookstores

Ryan Harrington

These are restless times for revolutionary bookstores. Last week we wrote about In Other Words—the feminist bookstore and community space portrayed as Women and Women First in Portlandia—discontinuing its relationship with that… Read more »

Melville House Books

College student opens a new library in Kabul

Julia Fleischaker