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Our lives may seem to be lived on the small scale of the everyday but, because we are mortal, because ultimately everything is at stake, also play out against something universal and important.
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How had he seen me upon this initial meeting? How had I seen him?
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Indie bookstore news from across the country and around the world!
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Indie bookstore news from across the country and around the world!
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Indie bookstore news from across the country and around the world!
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Poet and author Nanos Valaoritis discusses the political and cultural situation in Greece today.
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I love the United States, too. Like a house I was raised in, though, I know it up close and can spot its many fissures.
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Ancestors need a scratch, a stretch sometimes, too.
...moreA state run bookstore in Shanghai is ripping out pages from Webster’s Dictionary that include a reference to Taiwan. The Dallas Morning News checks in with Deep Vellum Books, the bookstore offshoot of Deep Vellum Publishing that owner Will Evans sought a business partner to keep going. Local news in Madison, Connecticut goes inside twenty-six-year-old […]
...moreA century-old Greek bookstore has closed due to the debt crisis. Colleges are giving up on campus bookstores, sending students to Amazon instead. You too could start your own bookstore.
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After four years of ceaseless bombing and brutality, the security of life itself has been reduced in Aleppo to horror, terror, and scarcity of basic human resources.
...moreIn the midst of the Greek debt crisis and its repercussions, many writers are using the country’s economic downturn as fuel for a poetic renaissance: In a country where there is less to go around across the board – including fewer young people – poetry is “the one thing there is more of,” writes editor […]
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Miroslav Penkov discusses his debut novel, Stork Mountain, Balkan history, and the difficulties and rewards of being a bilingual writer.
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Traveling abroad, of course, the world insists, asks, Where are you from?
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Annie Liontas talks about her debut novel Let Me Explain You, crafting voices, and the benefits—and occasional pitfalls—of returning to get an MFA after years of writing in the dark.
...moreA character in Jim C. Hines’s Libriomancer calls bookstores “the closest thing I have to a church.” If you, too, worship at the altar of crowded shelves and cracked spines, you’ll adore this list of ten unique bookstores from around the world as much as we did. From Greece’s Atlantis Books with its bleach-white countryside and […]
...moreThis sounds like one hell of a show–the Museum of Cycladic Art in Athens (not the one in Georgia) has put together a collection of erotic art dating from the sixth century BC to the 4th century AD, including masterpieces from more than fifty international museums. It’s so risqué that one section is limited to […]
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