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In a move that has been roundly denounced as cowardly by protestors, the Brent city council ordered the removal of all materials from the Kensal Rise Library — a decision… Read more »

Walt Whitman, one of America’s greatest poets, was born on this day in 1819. That would make him how old …? Doesn’t matter, his poetry lives on, and like any… Read more »

There’s been a new development in the ongoing debates in Israel over book-pricing. As Haaretz reports, about 270 authors, including heavyweights Amos Oz, A.B. Yehoshua, and David Grossman, have sent… Read more »

Next month, international auction house Sotheby’s will auction off a collection of extremely rare and valuable leaves of manuscript, in a collection they call “The History of Script.” The sixty… Read more »

Song of Achilles wins 2012 Orange Prize What death really says is: THINK Art as the great divider  What happens when you read Vonnegut as an adult? Authors discuss their… Read more »