Denver’s Isis Books & Gifts isn’t the only bookstore to face challenges prompted by growing anti-Muslim sentiment. We previously wrote about vandalism of the independent bookstore in Denver’s Englewood neighborhood as a… Read more »

Back in November, we wrote about Isis Books & Gifts, a small, independent bookstore in Denver, Colorado that had been the victim of several acts of vandalism. Ignorant and/or confused, several… Read more »

Following the attacks in Paris on November 13, the French Booksellers Association (Syndicat de la Librairie Française, or SLF) has released a reading list designed to help people better understand the complex… Read more »

Last week, a Saudi Arabian court ordered the execution of Ashraf Fayadh, a poet and artist born in Palestine who is now officially stateless, and who is also a member of… Read more »

Last weekend an independent bookstore in Denver’s Englewood neighborhood was vandalized because of a mistaken association with the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, aka ISIS. The bookstore’s name? As a Shelf… Read more »

In addition to writing more than 60 mystery novels, Agatha Christie also once wrote a travel memoir about the time she spent in the Middle East, traveling with her archaeologist… Read more »

Topics discussed: blurbers, blurbers, blurbees, Led Zeppelin, logrolling, the state of the publishing industry, the state of our confusion about the publishing industry, ISIS, Alex’s love of ISIS, Alex’s love of… Read more »

Will Butler is not the first Butler you think of when you think of the 113-piece Canadian rock band The Arcade Fire. That would be his brother Win, a tall man (7’1″)who is… Read more »