In this season of “Best of” lists, BBC Culture has outdone everyone. Rather than produce a list of the best books of the year, BBC has compiled a list of… Read more »

Many of us in the book trade are experiencing burnout this week on the topic of previously “lost” works by iconic authors. Which is unfortunate, because Lazarus books are one… Read more »

Topics discussed: mozzarella sticks, Nick During, incompetence, silliness, fear, Martin Amis, Facebook comments, George Orwell, the New York Review of Books, Charlie Hebdo, Henry Green, the Nobel Prize, John Banville, Tomas Tranströmer, Karl Ove… 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 »

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 »

In England, where they like to do things ceremonially, one pen has been retired and another is about to be inaugurated. These are, mind you, no ordinary Pilot Precise V5… Read more »

In order to show off its collaborative capabilities, Google Documents has created a demonstration where you can collaborate with famous (and long-dead) authors on a story. It’s actually a pretty… Read more »

A signed copy of A Christmas Carol is due to take up residence in the place that inspired Dickens’s portrait of Scrooge’s counting house, the former office of Charles Smithson,… Read more »

In something of an antidote to last week’s disheartening news about the Edgar Allan Poe house, the Guardian reports that the one surviving Charles Dickens home in London has reopened… Read more »

We’re familiar with the argument: the modern age is bankrupting our attention spans, we are all technology-addled morons clicking semi-consciously between browser screens, unable to complete the simplest of tasks:… 3 / Read more »