Category Archives: Publications

Tiananmen Exiles-Voices of the Struggle for Democracy in China

ROWENA XIAOQING HE 06.25.14

In the spring of 1989, millions of citizens across China took to the streets in a nationwide uprising against government corruption and authoritarian rule. What began Continue reading

A ‘Wimpy’ Plan to Save the Physical Book

Children’s author Jeff Kinney’s new shop will emphasize reading as a tangible, community experience in a digital, fractured world.

SONA CHARAIPOTRAJUN 20 2014, 1:47 PM ET


Kinney at his office in Boston (AP Photo)
Jeff Kinney, the man behind the astonishingly powerful Diary of a Wimpy Kid series, is leading the revolution. Continue reading

With Memories And Online Maps, A Man Finds His ‘Way Home’

by NPR STAFF June 22, 2014 4:33 PM ET


A Long Way Home
by Saroo Brierley

Hardcover, 255 pages
More than 25 years ago, Saroo Brierley was one of many poor children in rural India. At 4 years old, Continue reading

How technology rewrites literature-Writers including Tom McCarthy and Joe Dunthorne consider whether the coming of computers and the net has changed the way they write

 


Laptop keyboard
New sentences … a man types on a laptop keyboard. Photograph: PhotoAlto / Alamy
In an interview with the Paris Review, the American poet Frederick Seidel mentions a time in the 1970s when
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9 Famous Authors Who Used Pen Names To Reinvent Themselves

Posted: 06/18/2014 2:00 pm EDT Updated: 06/18/2014 2:00 pm EDT

My latest mystery/crime novel Third Rail (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) has it all — a charismatic but troubled cop who loses his gun, a deadly smart drug, a small town in turmoil, and a big city wrestling with corruption. What doesn’t it have? My name on the cover. After many novels and many more years, Continue reading

Europe after the Berlin Wall: Latest issue

By Vicky Baker / 17 June, 2014


Index on Censorship magazine: summer issue 2014
In the summer issue of Index on Censorship magazine, Continue reading

Getting stuck in for Shanghai

Professor Robert Bickers of the University of Bristol explores the contradictions, patriotic fervour and battlefield experiences of the largest contingent of Shanghai British to fight the Kaiser’s forces in Europe, and the story of the city they left behind. Continue reading

Behold the Fall Harvest

By JOHN WILLIAMSJUNE 13, 2014

When BookExpo America, the annual trade convention, took place in Manhattan two weeks ago, the publishing industry turned its gaze to the traditionally heavy-hitting fall season. Continue reading