Small British publisher Laurence King has had a surprise runaway hit here in the US with an unlikely title. Alison Flood reports for The Guardian that two coloring books created… Read more »

You might have already heard of the app Clean Reader, a tool that scrubs books of any profanity, with three settings: Clean, Cleaner, and Squeaky Clean. As reported here on… Read more »

George R.R. Martin has earned quite the reputation for frustrating his fans with the ever-increasing delayed gratification in his A Song of Ice and Fire series. Originally intending to write… Read more »

The translation into English and publication of Adolf Hitler’s manifesto Mein Kampf has been the topic of considerable discussion, and the book itself has landed on bestseller lists, including on… Read more »

Two little-known gay erotic novels with a connection to Oscar Wilde will soon be published again, thanks to a Kickstarter campaign by a Canadian scholar. Alison Flood reports for The… Read more »

As Scotland prepares to vote on a referendum on breaking off from the United Kingdom to become an independent country, a poem that champions the case for union between England… Read more »

Eleanor Catton is a national treasure. She’s not strictly “our” national treasure… well, she was born in Canada and grew up in New Zealand. And yet! Catton, Booker-winning author of… Read more »

An almost entirely unknown story by P.L. Travers — the author who created Mary Poppins — about the real-life woman who inspired the character will be released this fall, Alison Flood… Read more »

The Commonwealth Short Story Prize was awarded last week to Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi, a writer from Uganda currently living and teaching at Lancaster University in the UK. Established in 2012 alongside… Read more »

Alison Flood reports for the Guardian that a song that Ringo Starr wrote for the Beatles in 1968 will be turned into a children’s book later this year. “Octopus’s Garden”… Read more »