Acclaimed author Jhumpa Lahiri’s debut book, Interpreter Of Maladies, was an absolute barnstormer. A collection of short stories that often focused on the tension between Indian and American culture, it won both… Read more »

An etching by Rembrandt worth between $20,000 and $30,000 and an engraving by Albrecht Dürer worth $600,000 are missing from the Boston Public Library’s print collection, according to the Boston Herald.… Read more »

Textbooks. They’re heavy, expensive, and omnipresent, and they’re chained to education, which makes their demand fairly inelastic. And as we’ve previously covered, this makes them a fairly attractive object of… Read more »

We are always  willing to brave the many conspiracies of the book world, whether they’re the mysterious (which is to say suspicious) Colorado book drops, or John Darnielle’s deal with… Read more »

Sometime over the holidays—likely between Christmas and New Years Day—someone removed a bronze plaque featuring Mark Twain’s profile from the author’s gravesite in Elmira, NY. Twain wrote many of his most… Read more »

Just before one of its darkest moments came the twentieth century’s most exciting year . . . It was the year Henry Ford first put a conveyer belt in his car factory, and the… Read more »

Whenever I’m tempted to say that something about our contemporary lives is radical or new, I’m reminded of the scene in No Country For Old Men where the retired, crippled… 10 / Read more »