Boy reading newspaper, New York, 1944

from The Guardian UK The power of reading Morrison on André Kertész’s photographic celebration of the joy of the written word by Blake Morrison Boy reading newspaper, New York, 1944 Photograph: The Estate of André Kertész/Courtesy of Stephen Bulger Gallery One...

Langston Hughes’ House Foreclosed

from The Cleveland Plain-Dealer House where Langston Hughes lived in Cleveland is foreclosed on, sold at sheriff’s auction House where writer Langston Hughes lived as a teen is on the block after sheriff’s sale by Sandra Livingston, Plain Dealer Reporter...

There’s Really No Need To Re-set The Old Man’s Table

from The New York Times Don’t Touch ‘A Moveable Feast’ By A. E. HOTCHNER Westport, Conn. BOOKSTORES are getting shipments of a significantly changed edition of Ernest Hemingway’s masterpiece, “A Moveable Feast,” first published posthumously by Scribner in 1964. This...

Lockdown On Nabokov by Knopf

from The Observer If You Want to Read Nabokov’s Laura Early, You’ll Have to Make a House Call to Knopf By Leon Neyfakh On Friday afternoon we ran through some of the most exciting galleys hitting the streets this summer. One we didn’t include was The...

Oldest Version Of Bible In Book Form Found On The Internet

from The Guardian UK Codex Sinaiticus: the virtual edition In fragments for centuries, one of the oldest books in the world is now available to flick through in one place – online by Stephen Bates Even if it was not the oldest Bible text in book form, the online...