Belal Jadallah, one of the most beloved and respected journalists in Gaza, was killed yesterday by Israeli shelling. Known locally as “the godfather of Palestinian journalists,” Jadallah was …
Authorities in Gaza City have condemned what they say was the deliberate destruction of the city’s main public library by Israeli forces after finding the building in ruins while a ceasefire was be…
Sumerian cuneiform, Egyptian hieroglyphics, manuscripts in Aramaic, Arabic, and Hebrew, the illuminated Christian Gospels, the Talmud, the Koran—with these forms and collections of writing came the expectation that a person would read them out loud and would, in a manner of speaking, conjure their reality. In his book A...
In 2009 I was working with the prison book program in Asheville, North Carolina when I got a request for shapeshifting. I was shocked and thought it was funny, until I came to realize esoteric inte…
I’m not saying that all self-help is bad. There’s always been an audience for short and snappy self-improvement books (there’s a reason why there are only 7 Habits, not 70), and that’s just fine. But I do worry about a larger phenomenon that I’ll call the bulletpointification of books and media....
Pour la huitième fois consécutive, j’ai le plaisir de vous présenter les meilleures couvertures de livres de l’année, choisies par certains des meilleurs designers de couvertures de livres du secteur....
The St. Charles County library system recently bought additional copies of a challenged book, Bang Like a Porn Star: Sex Tips from the Pros, because “committee members need more copies to conduct a formal review.” Suuuuure guys....