Doctor, it hurts when I do this . . .
Dennis Johnson
“I’ve just come back from a book tour in America,” says Hillel Halkin in a Jerusalem Post commentary. “It’s called a ‘book tour,’ it turns out, because of all the… Read more »
“I’ve just come back from a book tour in America,” says Hillel Halkin in a Jerusalem Post commentary. “It’s called a ‘book tour,’ it turns out, because of all the… Read more »
Last Friday in Moscow the winner of one of the country’s leading book prizes, the National Bestseller Prize, was announced in “a lavish ceremony in St. Petersburg’s Astoria Hotel.” Mikhail… Read more »
In 1943, after Faber & Faber published an anthology of Welsh poems, 25-year-old Scottish poet Maurice Lindsay wrote to T.S. Eliot in his position as Faber’s director of publishing and… Read more »
“Over the past decade, Iran’s best-selling fiction lists have become dominated by women, an unprecedented development abetted by recent upheavals in Iranian society,” observes Nazila Fathi in a New York… Read more »
According to an InsideHigherEd.com report, Indiana University law professor William C. Bradford has “riled up plenty of people in Indiana,” and Bradford himself says he’s heard he won’t get tenure… 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 »
Shelby Foote, the writer famed for his writings about the Civil War who became even more of a celebrity when he appeared in Ken Burns’ PBS documentary about the war,… Read more »