Country singer, philanthropist, and actual living legend Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library, a charity dedicated to giving free books to children, announced this week that she will be expanding the program to… Read more »

It’s hard to think of a week that’s been good for the Trump administration PR-wise, but you could make a strong case that the last week was one of the… Read more »

Ireland’s Censorship of Publications Board is back at work! The controversial censoring body has issued their first full ban on a book due to obscene content in almost two decades. Michael Barry… Read more »

The announcement that Gerry Adams, Irish politician and leader of Sinn Féin, had published a book of collected tweets was met with some delight, some confusion, and some questions. I gotta… Read more »

It’s been nine years since James Frey admitted that A Million Little Pieces got billed as a memoir because he couldn’t get it sold as a novel. Nine! That’s enough… Read more »

Two booksellers at Shakespeare & Company in Paris have announced the launch of de Selby Press, an independent publishing venture that is currently fundraising to publish its first project. The… Read more »

This is the third year of “Happy Days,” the annual Beckett festival in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland, and this year the festival has a new addition: the first-ever Yiddish production of… Read more »

Ireland’s Republican party, Fianna Fáil, has introduced a motion to disband the Irish Censorship of Publications Board which, if successful, would end just under a century of literary censorship. The… Read more »

“I fear those big words,” says Stephen Daedalus, early in Ulysses, “that make us so unhappy.” Stephen, of course, isn’t referring to words like “onomatopoeia” or “honorificabilitudinitatibus,” but to words with… Read more »