British Supreme Court rules that pianist James Rhodes can publish his memoir
Last year, we reported on a British legal case so weird that it was hard to summarize it in a pithy headline. The post’s headline was “British legal case so… Read more »
“Not A Step Without Bata”: the Czech shoe company that took over the world
One of the extraordinary stories told in Mariusz Szczygiel’s book Gottland: Mostly True Stories From Half of Czechoslovakia — which we’re very happy to be publishing this week—is that of… Read more »
Should The Globe Theatre take Hamlet to North Korea?
Earlier this week, Amnesty International criticized The Globe Theatre for planning to take its production of Hamlet to North Korea. Amnesty called for The Globe to read up on the… Read more »
The prize you should be paying attention to today
Someone will win the Nobel Prize for Literature today, and if past years are any indication, it’s probably going to be someone who seems expressly chosen to frustrate the Ladbrokes… Read more »