Translator Jonathan Wright said last night that he felt, for the English-language reader, "religious references [in Arabic literature] are in general problematic." […]

Poems and Paintings by Salena Gerdes and Joseph P. Wood in the newest issue of Dear Camera […]

Haruki Murakami’s breakout novel, Norwegian Wood, is being made to a film. But wait! There’s more! It’s being scored by Radiohead. […]

To mark the one-year anniversary of his outstanding literary webzine, The Second Pass, editor John Williams asked a whole bunch of reading folks to wax on about their favorite OP titles. […]

Despite Eliot's oft-quoted line about April, we all know that March is really the cruelest month, refusing to set us free of winter's bleakness even as it tantalizes us with hints of spring. This year however, Thoreau's journals in hand, I've decided to choose my own March. […]

or, Artifacts from a World I Do Not Recognize I love coming across mass market editions of books by writers whom you wouldn’t normally associate with that format (at least for those of us who were born in the seventies or later). Below are a few I’ve come across in used book stores. I always wonder: [...] […]

Selections from Andrew K. Peterson's "Bonjour Meriweather and the Rabid Maps." […]

When publishers change book titles - the effects run the gamut from wise to deeply questionable. And sometimes it just helps sales. Especially for new translations. […]

The David Foster Wallace archive has been acquired by The University of Texas at Austin, which now has, ahem, a lot of writers’ papers. […]

I’m  a bookseller, but after reading Craig Mod’s Books in the Age of the iPad, even I would rather read Tomasula and Danielewski on an iPad. […]