December 11, 2015

On Monday, we wrote about Amnesty International’s day of action in honor of the Senate Intelligence Committee Report on Torture. Amnesty’s campaign—American Torture Story—encouraged the group’s members to remind Congress,… Read more »

Censorship

Chinese translation of Indian poet draws criticism from state and scholars alike — Chad Felix
Egypt continues crackdown on novelist Alaa Al Aswany — Ena Brdjanovic
Tea Party chair calls for UN fund-raising book by Kermit the Frog to be banned — Taylor Sperry
PEN urges Chinese government to free dissident poets Liu Xiaobo and Liu Xia — Chad Felix

Lost Pablo Neruda poems—found and crowdfunded

Chad Felix

In June 2014, upon reading about the discovery of new poems by Pablo Neruda, Michael Wiegers, executive editor at the nonprofit poetry publisher Copper Canyon Press, wrote the Neruda Foundation,… Read more »

The scientific theory behind what makes Dr. Seuss funny

Zeljka Marosevic

A psychology professor at the University of Alberta claims to have found the scientific answer to that age-old question: why is Dr. Seuss so funny? Chris Westbury was conducting research… Read more »

Iceland celebrates annual “Christmas book flood”

Kait Howard

In publishing, the holiday season is a time to look back and celebrate the most successful books of the year. Unless, that is, you live in notoriously book-friendly Iceland, where many… Read more »

This year’s publishing trend—the remarkably lengthy novel

Julia Fleischaker

You might have heard about a book that came out recently—a little thing called City on Fire (944 pages)? Or, maybe you read something about A Little Life (rather big,… Read more »

Melville House Books

Has anyone in the White House read the Senate Torture Report?

Mark Krotov