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Our author, the renown novelist, screenwriter, and translator Gilber Adair died in London last week. As his friend Henry Porter observes in a remembrance for The Guardian,”He had been frail… Read more »

Tomas Tranströmer received this year’s Nobel Prize in Literature in a ceremony in Stockholm on Saturday. According to The Local, an English-language Swedish news site, “On the menu, which was—as… Read more »

The Fallback Plan is a weekly column written by Leigh Stein (author of the novel The Fallback Plan), that offers advice to those undergoing a second adolescence. For an illustrated… Read more »

On this day in 1821, Gustave Flaubert was born in Rouen, France. In our Art of the Novella series, you can find his story A Simple Heart, which was originally… Read more »

The art of the handsell Real books don’t die Booksellers’ picks Print down, Indies up Editors and critics favorites 2011 Now that books mean nothing 10 best governesses Shakespeare as… Read more »