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Ireland’s Republican party, Fianna Fáil, has introduced a motion to disband the Irish Censorship of Publications Board which, if successful, would end just under a century of literary censorship. The… Read more »

In an article for the Sunday Times Magazine, bad-ass 93-year-old author PD James says she has solved a famous cold case that Raymond Chandler called “the impossible murder.” Known as… Read more »

Last year, as Hurricane Sandy made its way up the Atlantic Coast, Christopher Jones and Gina Holmes were making plans to open a bookstore in New London, Connecticut. Having raised their… Read more »

While Langston Hughes is closely associated with the Harlem Renaissance, and spent a good chunk of his adult life in the Manhattan neighborhood, he lived in various cities all around… Read more »