May 16, 2017

Angela Gui did not set out to become an activist. It was 576 days ago that Gui’s father, Swedish citizen Gui Minhai, disappeared mysteriously near his vacation home in Thailand, only… Read more »

Causeway Bay booksellers

China’s embassy in Stockholm has been harrassing those who speak in defense of Gui Minhai, the Swedish publisher illegally detained in China — Ian Dreiblatt
The EU is signaling that it will continue to pressure China for the release of Gui Minhai and Liu Xia — Ian Dreiblatt
Gui Minhai, his whereabouts unknown, wins the Prix Voltaire as the international clamor on his behalf grows louder — Ian Dreiblatt
An award-winning Swedish publisher is disappeared in China... again — Ian Dreiblatt

Saudi Arabia endeavors to protect some books

Taylor Sperry

Whereas Manhattan’s Life Sciences Secondary School has “ordered all textbooks rounded up and removed” from classrooms, Pakistan’s Express Tribune reports that Saudi Arabia’s Department of Education in Eastern Province has just… Read more »

The Guggenheim Museum, joining others, expands its free digital art book libraries

Chad Felix

Hey, art books are really great. But also: heavy, expensive, and then, a little bit later, rare (and more expensive). It’s nothing but good news, then, that the Solomon. R. Guggenheim Museum,… Read more »

Happy eighty-eighth birthday of Adrienne Rich, everybody

Melville House

The world is a crazy medley of cymbals and cuckoo-clock noises, and it’s an excellent moment to reach for ballast to the writing of Adrienne Rich, who would have turned eighty-eight today.… Read more »

Melville House Books

Angela Gui, daughter of kidnapped Causeway Bay bookseller Gui Minhai, speaks

Ian Dreiblatt