A BBC documentary, Business Boomers, has revealed that Amazon’s business in the UK is not only booming but dominating online retail. According to the programme, British consumers bought £4.5 billion… Read more »

If we’re at the point of using ‘amazon’ as a verb, allow me to suggest a few definitions. In an online tease for a BBC2 documentary about Amazon, the world’s… Read more »

Yesterday the BBC’s director general Tony Hall announced the BBC’s new season of arts, calling it “the strongest commitment to the arts we’ve made in a generation.” The plans, which… Read more »

Hold on to your towels, folks: BBC Radio 4 has put up a free, online version of the 1984 text-based Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy game. You can tell your… Read more »

This past Friday, February 7, marked what would have been Charles Dickens’s 202nd birthday, and his birth city of Portsmouth in England celebrated the occasion with a statue of the… Read more »

Yesterday, the city of Peshawar, Pakistan was supposed to host a book launch event for teenage activist Malala Yousafzai’s book I Am Malala. The memoir by the young advocate for women’s education… Read more »

Earlier this year, I reported on the news that Lonely Planet, the largest travel guide book publisher in the world, was planning a ‘global overhaul’ that would involve editorial and… Read more »

Set your DVRs, or rather, start clearing them out entirely, because you’ll need lots of room for the latest project announced by the Weinstein Company: a six-part TV adaptation of… Read more »

This week, the British Academy is celebrating Literature Week, five days of events including an evening of William Shakespeare at the Globe Theatre, lectures, and poetry readings. Throughout the week,… Read more »

Mark your calendars, Anglophiles, because the BBC has announced that it will produce a miniseries based on Susanna Clarke’s bestselling novel, Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell. Dave Itzkoff wrote for… Read more »