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“Pope Benedict believes the Harry Potter books subtly seduce young readers and ‘distort Christianity in the soul’ before it can develop properly,” according to comments he made to a German… Read more »

Karim Emami, an Iranian translator known for his translations of major modern English-speaking writers into Persian, has died of leukemia at his home in Tehran at the age of 75.… Read more »

Writing about Abraham Socher’s article in the Times Literary Supplement on Vladimir Nabokov’s Pale Fire , (available in the July 1 print edition only), The New York Observer’s Ron Rosenbaum… Read more »

Jessa Crispin says “My greatest failure as a reader is my inability to read literature in a second language.” She became particularly worried recently when “I saw how many works… Read more »

Scott McLemee says he picked up A Nation of Realtors: A Cultural History of the Twentieth Century American Middle Class by Jeffrey M. Hornstein “expecting a mixture of social history… Read more »