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And I thought I was feeling a bit apocalyptic. By Will Self , via James Marriott :  We began in a world with twice as much literacy as we ha...

Nobody likes the idea of banning books, or restricting their circulation, but it’s never that straightforward, is it? I don’t think I’d be m...

It is inevitable that the most perceptive prediction about the near future I’ve seen so far this year comes in the form of a meme. It’s also...

A number of celebrated authors have offered their support, if not their creative juices, to a book called Don’t Steal This Book , intended t...

Another World Book Day passes, which means – apart from the inevitable sprawl of kids going to school dressed as characters from books their...

I found this in a forum on, of all things, a climbing site, where the conversation had for some reason turned to Radiohead, about which I on...

Still recovering from the various disappointments of the Winter Olympics, above all that the American hockey player who I thought operated u...

Found this on BlueSky (Twitter for nice people) and it made me laugh but also made me think once again that so much humour depends on gettin...