“As the dust settles after all the to-ing and fro-ing over Kafka’s papers,” observes Michael Rosen in a thoughtful report for the Guardian, “it seems a good time to ask… Read more »

“Two civil rights organizations are suing Virginia prison officials because they banned inmates from receiving a book teaching them how to file lawsuits against prisons,” reports an Associated Press wire… Read more »

The world is full of bad boys — and admit it ladies, we all secretly (or not so secretly?) want to date them. Rockstars, carjackers, monkey smugglers… I could go… 2 / Read more »

British author and freelance journalist Alan Shadrake, 75, who was arrested in Singapore while promoting his book on executions (as reported earlier on MobyLives here), was released on bail Tuesday… Read more »

Freedom-loving folks around the United States are celebrating the Senate’s passage yesterday of a bi-partisan bill to prevent “libel tourism,” a growing problem that has had a definite chilling effect… Read more »

While publishers, booksellers, authors and agents are busy hacking out the future of e-books, in through the side door comes a gadget that could make copyright holder’s lives more complicated… 2 / Read more »

“A veteran British journalist and author promoting his book on the death penalty in Singapore was arrested in the country today for alleged criminal defamation and other offenses. Alan Shadrake’s… Read more »

“After months of legal wrangling, one of the 10 safe deposit boxes in which documents belonging to the writer Franz Kafka (1883-1924 ) and his close friend Max Brod (1884-1968… Read more »

The story of one the biggest selling books in decades was, as Sarah Weinman observes in a Los Angeles Times report, “an improbable Cinderella story”: “The Shack,” William Paul Young’s… 2 / Read more »

Smut! Give me smut and nothing but – A dirty novel I can’t shut If it’s uncut, and unsubtle… Despite the wild and lurid territories that have been charted in… 2 / Read more »