On Wednesday, I wrote about the weird closed-mouth policy at Granta regarding the magazine’s month-long spate of high-level departures. Well, yesterday the Guardian’s Alison Flood got a bunch of people… Read more »
Yesterday, Arts Council England (ACE) published its report into the future of local libraries. ‘Envisioning the library of the future’ is ‘a major research project undertaken over the past year’ during… Read more »
Yesterday the American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression released videos of bestselling authors Sherman Alexie and Laurie Halse Anderson discussing the censorship of young adult literature. For a time, Alexie’s… Read more »
On Thursday, the Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe was buried in his hometown of Ogidi, Nigeria. Achebe, who died on March 21 and twice refused Nigerian state honors, suffered a semi-official funeral… Read more »
In the mountains above Lucca in Tuscany, hill towns nestled on tree-lined ridges with dense foliage, wildflowers, grape vines, and narrow roads with hairpin turns, look down over the Lima… Read more »