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As you know, the Frankfurt Book Fair is a huge hulking monster about the size of twelve villages. And so far, one of those villages has been...

Not the world's sexiest blog post ever, but hey! The German government decided to reduce the VAT rate on e-books and audiobooks, in line...

Hot-bedding is a term that seems to originate from military language, meaning several people using the same bed in sh...

As you no doubt know, Birgit Vanderbeke’s novella The Mussel Feast is shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, in Jamie Bullo...

The American writer Daniel José Older has a depressing and inspiring piece at Buzzfeed about race, power and publishing in the U.S . Read it...

My friend and fellow translator Tom Morrison sent me this, and I share his sentiments:  Ceremonial presentation of the Tarabaya awards for...

It's counterintuitive, the title of this post. Book fairs are places where publishers go to monetize things. And London is a place where...