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It might have been a happy occasion in Washington DC yesterday, but Kari Lydersen reports that developments on Wall Street have grim implications for one of the major players in… Read more »

I’ve written before about the crucial smell of books, and it’s true that I, along with many of my fellow bibliophiles, have what could be termed a perverse devotion to… Read more »

“It’s looking increasingly unlikely that BookExpo Canada will be happening this year,” according to Scott McDonald in this report from Quill & Quire, Canada’s leading publishing industry trade magazine. McDonald… Read more »

Australian writer Harry Nicolaides has been sentenced to three years in prison for insulting Thailand’s royal family in a novel — “a rare conviction of a foreigner amid a crackdown… 2 / Read more »

One of America’s two remaining stand-alone book sections, the Washington Post’s Book World, may be a goner. Editor Marie Arana left last year in a buy-out and has yet to… 2 / Read more »