Julio Cortázar - whose sublime Autonauts of the Cosmoroute we touted last year on NPR - is profiled in the Yemen Times.  Nothing new here, but it's nice to see him getting any attention...

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Dear God, the Beatles meets a literary festival.  How can we resist?The mini-festival will open on May 14 with an appearance by Mark Lewisohn, long regarded as the world’s leading authorit...

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A terrible act of racism stands at the center of Louise Erdrich’s masterly new novel.

"A first American edition of "Bambi" by Felix Salten and a signed copy of Eugene O'Neill's "The Hairy Ape" will be among the rare books...

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"City Lights. Started by political gadfly Marc Emery in 1975, it's been owned and operated by Teresa Tarasewicz and Jim Capel since...

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"Mitchel, 24, is among hundreds of librarians worldwide who are making digital versions of the most fragile of the books to be included...

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I am completely spent from a wonderfully bookish weekend, and will spend most of today catching up, so I direct you to the excellent co...

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Dmitri Nabokov plans to defy the wishes of his father, Vladimir Nabokov, by publishing his father’s final, incomplete novel rather...

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This book explores loaded subjects like Bill Clinton’s last-minute pardons, imperiled legacy, flashy billionaire friends and business...

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Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Irshad Manji are two of the most prominent and outspoken critics of what they and others see as “mainstream Islam,”...

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