Sylvia Plath, e.e. cummings, Joseph Brodsky, and Elizabeth Bishop are four of the nine poets who will be commemorated on a new series of US postal stamps.
Christian bookstores, apparently suceptible to the same problems plaguing their secular counterparts, aren't doing so well.
Christopher Hitchens weighs in on Blue Nights, Joan Didion’s forthcoming memoir about the deaths of her husband and daughter.
Remarking on the publication of Joe McGinniss’s book on Sarah Palin, New York Times Book Review editor Sam Tanenhaus argues that political nonfiction, "a form of journalism that once emphasized narrative, analysis or both, seems to have devolved into a subspecies of celebrity exposé." For those keeping score, McGinniss is also the author of Fatal Vision, the book that inspired the lawsuit that inspired Janet Malcolm's amazing and psychological piercing book The Journalist and the Murderer.
A very talented vandal has been leaving ornate book sculptures in Scottish libraries.
Taking a cue from Netflix, Goodreads now has a recommendation feature.
Leymah Gbowee wasn’t expecting to go on tour to promote her memoir about working as a peace activist in Liberia. Until, that is, the chairman of Barnes and Noble decided to sponsor it.
