British prison book ban overturned
Controversial restrictions placed by the UK’s Ministry of Jusice on packages sent to prisoners, which effectively banned the receipt of books, have been lifted. The Guardian reports that the restriction, which was… Read more »
McBride, Packer win big at the 2013 National Book Awards
On Wednesday evening, the winners of the 2013 National Book Award were announced at a ceremony at Cipriani in Manhattan. The winners (drumroll, please) were: Fiction: The Good Lord Bird, by… Read more »
An attack that “made no sense whatever”: Alexander Cockburn’s fight with a publisher
In the American Prospect, Harold Myerson considers the legacy of Alex Cockburn, who died last Friday at 71, by revisiting his peculiar reaction to the demolition of Pantheon Books in… Read more »