April 29, 2015

With the city of Baltimore reeling from the riots and looting earlier this week, an anarchist bookstore has stepped in to provide some order amid the chaos. Judith Rosen reports… Read more »

Booksellers & bookselling

Ask a bookseller---Book Court's Bonnie Chau — Melville House
Customer threatens Northshire Bookstore for displaying the Qur’an — Kait Howard
Isis Books & Gifts changes signage, dodges blind wrath of ignorant brick-throwers — Simon Reichley
Barnes & Noble takes penultimate step to exiting Queens — Liam O'Brien

Quiz: Which Koch Brother Are You?

Tom O'Donnell

Are you baby-faced heartthrob David H. Koch? Or mysterious bad boy Charles G. Koch? Take the quiz to find out! 1.) It’s a typical Saturday night. What are you doing?… Read more »

It’s here! At long last, the Waterstones Watch has arrived.

Who can compete with Apple? We have the answer at last: Waterstones. Leave it to a bookseller to attempt the impossible. The company has just “announced” the Waterstones watch, “a new page in wearable… Read more »

“Maus” removed from Russian bookstores

Julia Fleischaker

The New York Times reported this week that residents of Moscow were surprised to see that copies of Art Spiegelman’s Maus had quietly been removed from the city’s largest bookstores.… Read more »

The latest list of “most beautiful bookstores” is compiled by Architectural Digest

Claire Kelley

It seems like every year brings a couple different lists of the “most beautiful bookstores” in the world. Flavorwire, the BBC, CNN have all contributed a list—even Business Insider has… Read more »

Melville House Books

Red Emma’s and other Baltimore institutions offering safe zones for students

Nick Davies