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‘Caja de las Letras’: Inside an old Madrid bank vault full of literary treasures
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‘Caja de las Letras’: Inside an old Madrid bank vault full of literary treasures

The headquarters of the Cervantes Institute, a global non-profit promoting the Spanish language and culture named after the «Don Quixote»…
Judge a book by its cover: inside the world of book cover design
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Judge a book by its cover: inside the world of book cover design

Go into any bookshop and you’ll see a smorgasbord of design styles.  There will be the big, bold, blocky text…
Pulitzer Prize: Winners of the 2024 arts categories address identity, race and war
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Pulitzer Prize: Winners of the 2024 arts categories address identity, race and war

Several stories tackling race, slavery and the US Civil War, both real and invented, were among the winners this year…
US novelist Paul Auster, author of ‘The New York Trilogy’ and ‘The Brooklyn Follies’ dies aged 77
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US novelist Paul Auster, author of ‘The New York Trilogy’ and ‘The Brooklyn Follies’ dies aged 77

Paul Auster, the prolific American author whose works include “The New York Trilogy” has died aged 77 after complications from…
ICYMI: EU Police arrest Georgians suspected of stealing €2.5 million worth of antique books
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ICYMI: EU Police arrest Georgians suspected of stealing €2.5 million worth of antique books

Over 100 law enforcement officials were deployed last week to raid 27 different locations in Georgia and Latvia – on…
Literary quarantine: National Library of France removes books believed to be laced with arsenic
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Literary quarantine: National Library of France removes books believed to be laced with arsenic

Remember Jean-Jacques Annaud’s film The Name of the Rose, based on Umberto Eco’s historical mystery novel of the same name?…
Jane Austen’s House Museum enlists the public’s help to transcribe her brother’s memoir
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Jane Austen’s House Museum enlists the public’s help to transcribe her brother’s memoir

Are you a card-carrying Jane Austen fan who’s always dreamt of deciphering the handwriting of an octogenarian from the 19th…
Actress Rebel Wilson’s memoir published in UK with blacked out text – but mention of Royal orgies
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Actress Rebel Wilson’s memoir published in UK with blacked out text – but mention of Royal orgies

Weeks after it was published in its entirety in the US, Australian actress Rebel Wilson’s memoir “Rebel Rising” has hit…
PEN America cancels 2024 literary awards amid criticism over its response to Israel-Hamas war
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PEN America cancels 2024 literary awards amid criticism over its response to Israel-Hamas war

Writers group PEN America announced it’s cancelling its annual awards ceremony – just a week before it was set to…
Pulitzer-winning writer David Mamet calls Hollywood’s diversity efforts ‘fascist totalitarianism’
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Pulitzer-winning writer David Mamet calls Hollywood’s diversity efforts ‘fascist totalitarianism’

Legendary playwright, filmmaker and Pulitzer Prize-winning screenwriter David Mamet did not mince his words  The scribe, who is behind The…
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