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A cultural news roundup. A. Whitney Ellsworth, the first publisher of The New York Review of Books, has died at seventy-five. Even Kate Middleton’s spelling is under scrutiny. Andrea Levy’s The Long...
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A cultural news roundup. Happy seventy-sixth, Mario Vargas Llosa! Muggles get the Harry Potter treatment in Florida. “At Ollivanders, the wand shop, character actors put on a show. With a few dozen...
View ArticleJack London Advises; Baboons “Read”
Slate weighs in on the e-book case: “The DoJ’s action effectively robs publishers of the ability to price their own products and robs other retailers of any hope of competing effectively with Amazon....
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A cultural news roundup. A. Whitney Ellsworth, the first publisher of The New York Review of Books, has died at seventy-five. Even Kate Middleton’s spelling is under scrutiny. Andrea Levy’s The Long...
View ArticleThurber Insults and Library Dreams
A cultural news roundup. Happy seventy-sixth, Mario Vargas Llosa! Muggles get the Harry Potter treatment in Florida. “At Ollivanders, the wand shop, character actors put on a show. With a few dozen...
View ArticleJack London Advises; Baboons “Read”
Slate weighs in on the e-book case: “The DoJ’s action effectively robs publishers of the ability to price their own products and robs other retailers of any hope of competing effectively with Amazon....
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