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Grumpy Cat did. Not actually having stepped foot in the Jacob Javits Center, site of this year’s Book Expo America, from afar the book industry’s premier event resembled nothing so much… Read more »

New figures about Iceland’s publishing and reading habits came out recently that show how Icelanders rack up intellectually against their regional neighbors.  A study from Bifröst University, reported on by… Read more »

“To Chop Down the Plane Tree” by Nazim Hikmet To chop down the plane tree, their axe strikes at the root, to set fire to the house they stuff oily… Read more »

One of the pleasures of editing is going down various wormholes, as occasioned by different books. For instance, while editing one book recently, I learned that benzine, otherwise known as petroleum ether,… Read more »

Scholars at the University of Bologna in Italy announced last week that they discovered that a Torah in their possession is, in fact, the oldest known copy of the text… Read more »