Argentina holds foreign books at customs
Ellie Robins
In Argentina, a new and bizarre piece of red tape means that imported books and magazines are being held at customs at Ezeiza airport, some 25 miles outside of Buenos… 1 / Read more »
In Argentina, a new and bizarre piece of red tape means that imported books and magazines are being held at customs at Ezeiza airport, some 25 miles outside of Buenos… 1 / Read more »
Aficionados of the MobyLives comment section beware, your literary pseudonyms may not protect you. The Times-Picayune reports that a US prosecutor has been unmasked as a prolific and often angry commentator on NOLA.com,… 2 / Read more »
“There is no such thing as the literary establishment. I know this because I am part of it,” writes Geoff Dyer in a Guardian essay. But why not just try and define what… Read more »
The Cairo International Book Fair is back with a vengance, according to a report in the Egyptian Gazette. Though cancelled last January due to revolution, the fair is back—and the… Read more »
In December, Plymouth-Canton Community Schools (Plymouth, Michigan) Superintendent Jeremy M. Hughes removed Toni Morrison’s Pulitzer-Prize-winning novel, Beloved and Graham Swift’s Booker-shortlisted Waterland from the high-school curriculum after a complaint from… 1 / Read more »
John Waters, in this interview at The Financial Times, claims to be regretful about how gay culture has gone mainstream: I miss it … I’m for gay marriage. I don’t want to do it,… Read more »
Poet John Kinsella published a rousing manifesto of poetry as activism in the New Statesman yesterday. He recently pulled out of the T.S. Eliot prize, days after Alice Oswald also renounced her… Read more »
Ever eager to jump on board with a no-brainer of a free idea, public idiot and Mayor of London Boris Johnson has announced his support for book-sharing schemes to be… 1 / Read more »
Tomas Tranströmer received this year’s Nobel Prize in Literature in a ceremony in Stockholm on Saturday. According to The Local, an English-language Swedish news site, “On the menu, which was—as… Read more »
“If you simplify your English, you are freed from the worst follies of orthodoxy,” George Orwell wrote in his 1946 essay ”Politics and the English Language”—a famous attack on the obscurity and inanity… Read more »