Four inches. 10.16cm. The minimum width of a standard football goalpost. In global terms: an incredibly small distance. At Wembley Stadium on Sunday night, as the Euro 2020 final between… Read more »

Before landing at Melville House last month, I had the great good fortune of managing Bank Square Books in Mystic, CT. I left my BSB family in July, to be… Read more »

As you may have heard, the World Cup started yesterday in Russia. The soccer World Cup. You know, the round ball? The one that isn’t basketball, football, or baseball? The… Read more »

In Rome, a thirty-five-year-old man who was convicted of paying an underage girl for sex has been ordered to buy thirty feminist books… for the girl to read. Rachael Pells reports… Read more »

When Egyptian officials undertook the investigation into the torturing and murder of Italian journalist Giulio Regeni in Cairo in early February, Italy’s prime minister Matteo Renzi warned that he wouldn’t accept “convenient… Read more »

Following Umberto Eco’s passing last week, the publication of his final book has been pushed up from May to this Friday, February 26th. Titled Pape Satàn Aleppe: Chronicles of a Liquid Society, the… Read more »

In the wake of the landmark Supreme Court decision of Obergefell v. Hodges, the United States became a major (and overdue) addition to the handful of countries that recognize same-sex marriage.… Read more »

Topics discussed: airports, music that inspired airports but that’s not necessarily for airports, big corporations, bigger corporations, Google, Google Translate, Google Maps, Google Docs, Google Laundry, The Internship, The Interview,… Read more »

The Calabria region in southern Italy (the toe of the boot, if you would) has approved a measure to allow prison inmates to cut time off their sentences by reading… Read more »

Retired schoolteacher Antonio La Cava from Ferrandina, Italy calls himself “the master of the road” in his little book mobile, a vehicle he created to be a library —complete with… Read more »