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In a statement “approved by Pope Benedict,” the Vatican yesterday denounced a leading American nun who taught Christian ethics at the Yale Divinity School for writing a book called Just Love,… 1 / Read more »

A rare first edition of the Book of Mormon was stolen from the Rare and Out of Print Books and Art shop in Mesa, Arizona, over the Memorial Day weekend,… Read more »

Type “North Korea” one too many times on Twitter and you might come to the attention of the Department of Homeland Security. James Fallows at The Atlantic writes about two recently released… Read more »

The small but venerable publishing house Avalon has been swept off in the river. The perimeters of the deal have yet to be announced, but Amazon’s increasingly large publishing arm has… Read more »

Nook War and Peace e-book changes every “kindle” to “Nook” Poet Ed Skoog on the recent Seattle shootings Reevaluating Hemingway’s prose Culture’s role in the economy of life Teju Cole’s… Read more »