June 29, 2015

When is it okay to kill a journalist? If you want the answer, you’re going to have to work for it. One problem with important literature is that it’s long… Read more »

Arts & Culture

Protesting sexism, comic book artists pull out of running for Angoulême Grand Prix — Liam O'Brien
Barnes & Noble takes penultimate step to exiting Queens — Liam O'Brien
Fifth employee connected to Hong Kong bookstore goes missing — Liam O'Brien
20th anniversary edition of Infinite Jest features fan-designed cover — Kait Howard

New TV adaptation of classic children’s book to be less salacious than its source material

Mark Krotov

The Swallows and Amazons series is a classic of British children’s literature. Between 1930 and 1947, Arthur Ransome published twelve books in the series, which followed groups of children on… Read more »

Harry Potter takes to the London stage

Nick Davies

J.K. Rowling, creator of Mrs. Norris and the Marauder’s Map, has been giving Harry Potter fans a lot to be happy about lately, from confirming the existence (or, you know,… Read more »

Lewis Carroll’s “Alice” comes to the Morgan Library

Taylor Sperry

For the first time in 30 years, the original manuscript of Lewis Carroll’s classic Alice in Wonderland will travel from London’s British Library to the Morgan Library in New York,… Read more »

Melville House Books

I’m reading the new Law Of War Manual so you don’t have to

Liam O'Brien