The LGBTQ+ Literary Resistance
In November 2024, PEN America released its key findings from over ten thousand documented cases of book bans that occurred in the 2023–2024 school year: Thirty-nine percent of reported books…
Behind Closed Doors
The Sicilian writer Maria Messina's captivating and brutal stories of the women of her home island are presented in an English translation by Elise Magistro. Messina, who died in 1944,…
Defoe and the Distance to Utopia
In Defoe’s Captain Singleton, published a year later, the eponymous pirate comes back home with new notions of equality and communal property. Indeed, as Defoe teaches us, the highest ideals…
300 people formed 2 ‘Book Brigade’ lines
and together we moved 9100 books and umpteen boxes in under 2 hours.
Lizzy Hadfield’s Hackney Terrace Is a Book-Lover’s Dream
Tucked away in the heart of Hackney, Lizzy Hadfield’s Victorian terrace is a warm, welcoming reflection of her effortlessly cool style. The digital creator and fashion tastemaker – celebrated for…
Queer Readings of Rebecca
video by trade movies podcast
The Book-Makers
A History of the Book in Eighteen Lives
David Macaulay, America’s “Explainer-in-chief”
Author David Macaulay has spent more than 50 years finding ways to explain things, via his humorous and intricately illustrated books featuring wooly mammoth guides – his attempt to hook…
Why Africa’s history is more than just the slave trade
Has our focus on the impact of the transatlantic slave trade blinded us to the diversity and complexity of Africa's past? That's one of the arguments at the heart of…
The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation
By Cory Doctorow