Here is the top literary news of the week:
- Library fire in southern Italy causes three deaths and destruction of priceless Renaissance books
- CUP under fire for censorship in China
- Multimedia Giant China South Publishing Invests in IPR License
- Fifty Years Later, Remembering Sci-Fi Pioneer Hugo Gernsback
- HOW THE SILENT BOOK CLUB GAVE ME BACK MY READING LIFE
- WHY YOUR BRAIN NEEDS TO READ EVERY SINGLE DAY
- Buying A Comic Shop On Facebook…
- Twitter will render children illiterate in 20 years says Jacobson
- ST. VINCENT TO DIRECT GENDER-FLIPPED PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY
- RETURN TO RAPTURE: CELEBRATING THE LEGACY OF BIOSHOCK ON ITS 10-YEAR ANNIVERSARY
- “Will Be Familiar to Many Readers”
- The HuffPost’s tabloid-style homepage is paying dividends
- Amazon.com book sales up 46% in 2017, says report
- China Quarterly Editor's statement: Cambridge University Press to unblock censored material today.
- Brian Aldiss: the pre-eminent science-fiction writer – and always a gentleman
- WHY I BOUGHT MY FIRST PHYSICAL BOOK IN A DECADE
- I MADE A MISTAKE IN MY BOOK AND THE INTERNET WENT NUTS
- Solzhenitsyn's Russian Revolution epic to be published in English
- Don't punish CUP over censorship U-turn', China urged
- Poet Jorie Graham wins $100,000 Wallace Stevens Award
- Qatar National Library Joins International Network of Partners Contributing to Digital Library of the Middle East
- SUE GRAFTON FROM A TO Z
- WATCHING WISHBONE WITHOUT READING LITERATURE
- Former CIA agent wants to buy Twitter to kick Trump off
- Report: “Bold Open-Access Push in Germany Could Change the Future of Academic Publishing
- Where's Mr Lion unveiled as Sainsbury’s children's 'book of the year'
- A LITERARY LONG WEEKEND IN LAS VEGAS
- BACK AWAY FROM THAT 100 BEST NOVELS LIST
- Albertine, New York
- China and the US make nearly half the world’s books
- Twitter Sleuths Accuse Book Of Scamming NYT Bestseller List
- Where's Mr Lion unveiled as Sainsbury’s children's 'book of the year'
- Former Village Voice Editors And Writers Remember Its Outsized Impact On Music
- Ilett's debut teen novel wins Kelpies Prize 2017
- Research Article: “Institutional Repositories and Academic Social Networks: Competition or Complement? A Study of Open Access Policy Compliance vs. ResearchGate Participation”
- WRITING THE STORIES OF SOUTH CENTRAL LOS ANGELES
- THE HANDMAIDS’ RESISTANCE PROVIDES FREE COSTUMES TO PROTESTERS
- Cultural celebrations for the 103rd anniversary of Cortázar
- Diversification Drives Gains at Abrams
- The battle between Amazon and Alibaba will be fought over warehouse space
- Chinese science fiction going mainstream
- Prayer Is an Essential Part of Farming, Israeli Science Textbook Says
- The Babylonians discovered a strange form of trigonometry
- Out of the closet and into bookshops: where are all the queer books?
- Former CIA agent wants to buy Twitter to kick Trump off
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