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October 14, 2019 |
Photo: Johnny Silvercloud / Flickr Seeking to understand the fascination with America and cowboys that courses through a Scottish subculture, a Canadian writer joins a gun club for its wee... -
October 9, 2015 |
Demonstration for Raif Badawi outside the Embassy of Saudi-Arabia, Helsinki, Finland. Raif Badawi was named the 2015 International Writer of Courage this week. Photo by Amnesty International/Flickr.... -
November 22, 2013 |
Hollywood celebrities pass away in groups of three, they say; in the literary world, this phenomenon seems to happen in pairs. This past week, we said goodbye to two more literary figureheads: first,... -
August 22, 2012 |
He decided to make a selection that would be as arbitrary as it was brilliant. . . . Very quickly the idea of selling books that he himself would not advise people to read infuriated him. . . . Al... -
August 13, 2012 |
The Edinburgh International Book Festival is off to an energetic start, and in the course of two weeks the festival will feature no fewer than eight hundred international writers in around 750 unique...
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