May 22, 2014

If you’re an academic publisher and you want to sell textbooks under a plan that violates the first sale doctrine (which guarantees that books, once bought by a consumer, can… Read more »

Education

The scientific theory behind what makes Dr. Seuss funny — Zeljka Marosevic
Tea Party chair calls for UN fund-raising book by Kermit the Frog to be banned — Taylor Sperry
Uproar over publication of Haruki Murakami's high school library records — Liam O'Brien
A new pronoun in the Mx. — Taylor Sperry

God is cutting to the chase, just smiting indie bookstores with lightning now

Dustin Kurtz

In perhaps the most explicit sign yet of his continued hatred of indie bookstores, God just went ahead and burned one down with a lightning bolt earlier this month. “An… Read more »

Should J.R.R Tolkien’s translation of Beowulf be published?

Martin Rouse

Fans of J.R.R. Tolkien might know that his 1926 prose translation of Beowulf will be published by HarperCollins this week. They may also know that, in a letter to a… Read more »

Jane Austen read her reviews… and kept notes on them

Sal Robinson

Some authors refuse to read their reviews. And then there’s Jane Austen. Who not only, it turns out, listened to what her friends and acquaintances had to say about her… Read more »

Censoring nosebleeds in a post-Fukushima manga

Oishinbo (“The Gourmet”), a manga about a journalist and his partner touring Japan gathering ingredients for the ultimate meal, was suspended last month for depicting its characters in the latest chapter… Read more »

Melville House Books

Law publisher angers law students by breaking law

Sal Robinson

God is cutting to the chase, just smiting indie bookstores with lightning now

Dustin Kurtz

Should J.R.R Tolkien’s translation of Beowulf be published?

Martin Rouse

Jane Austen read her reviews… and kept notes on them

Sal Robinson

Censoring nosebleeds in a post-Fukushima manga

Wah-Ming Chang