And now for an important round-up of erotica, the driving force of the literary industry since the E.L. James spring of 2012, when publishers of all other types of literature… Read more »

If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you’ll probably want to know is why, on a warm fall day last year, James Frey was standing in… 1 / Read more »

The story of bookseller, poet, and plagiarist Quentin Rowan, who wrote the heavily plagiarized spy thriller Assassin of Secrets under the pseudonym Q.R. Markham, keeps getting stranger—after Rowan apologized for his… 1 / Read more »

After 145 years, France has given back to South Korea a substantial trove of its literary culture. The collection of nearly 300 ancient texts were looted by French soldiers and… Read more »

An author who says her agent swiped her book project and turned it into a bestseller — for herself — has apparently won vindication in a lawsuit settlement. A New… Read more »

Last night I committed a crime: I stole 12 of Kurt Vonnegut’s novels. After reading David Carnoy’s recent article about the vast ease and availability of pirated eBooks I wanted… 13 / Read more »

When Duchamp presented his urinal readymade as art in 1917 it was radical that art could be appropriated rather than made. Now, it seems that the majority of artistic impulses… 2 / Read more »

Egyptian novelist Alaa al-Aswany says he’s taking legal action against the Israel-Palestine Center for Research and Understanding after it translated and published his novel The Yacoubian Building and offered it… 2 / Read more »

Unemployed book dealer Raymond Scott has been convicted of “handling stolen goods in the extraordinary case of a ‘priceless’ Shakespeare First Folio which went missing from a locked cabinet in… Read more »

A leaked confidential report from the French government says about 30,000 19th and 20th century books, including some 2,000 “precious” books — rare books of great value — have been… Read more »