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In a blistering riposte to the Department of Justice lawsuit charging it and five of the Big Six publishing houses with antitrust violations, Apple has called the government’s case “a… Read more »

There must be plenty of people secretly scribbling away at romance and erotica novels at the moment, inspired by the E.L. James story. So perhaps this Guardian article yesterday was… Read more »

In an essay in this week’s New Yorker titled “Easy Writers,” Arthur Krystal traces the history of guilty reading pleasures and finds the modernist novel responsible for drawing a hard… 1 / Read more »

A typo on the cover of the program for the commencement exercises  for the Lyndon Baines Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin rendered the… 1 / Read more »

Part two in our new weekly series featuring music videos that refer, in some way or other, to books. This week it’s “The Book I Read” by the Talking Heads,… Read more »

We’ve been keeping a close watch on the case between the Department of Justice and five of the Big Six Publishers. If you’re after more context than the latest headline,… Read more »

Clinical prose, lucid translation Text generating tricks from Oulipo I Am A Pole sits atop the list Somber Germans incapable of enjoying life, study says Asking questions without answers Egan’s… Read more »