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On Sunday, Edge posted 192 responses to their annual question. This year’s query, suggested by Steven Pinker, was “WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE DEEP, ELEGANT, OR BEAUTIFUL EXPLANATION?”  The responses—from CEOs,… 1 / Read more »

Less than a month after Britain’s biggest bookstore chain, Waterstones, had to apologize because branches in Yorkshire, Manchester, Liverpool and Cheshire “pushed Adolf Hitler’s manifesto Mein Kampf as the ‘perfect’ Christmas… 1 / Read more »

Listen up all you lollygagging parents of toddlers out there. With all the cognitive research in, it’s time to start taking that bedtime story a little more seriously. Reading to… 2 / Read more »

‘Cult favourite’ has always been a loaded term in publishing: it conjures up a devoted fan-base, but is often code for ‘crap sales’. There was an interesting analysis of what it means… 1 / Read more »

UK libraries may dodge cuts 1o famed literary jailbirds Tax incentives for new authors? AP opens bureau in North Korea Zadie Smith on global education Remembering Gil Scott-Heron Peter Temple… Read more »