Oxford University’s right to print books was first recognised in 1586, in a decree from the Star Chamber. But the centuries-old printing history of Oxford University Press will end this summer, after the publishing house announced the last vestige of its printing arm was closing. Read more
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2021 Lambda Literary Award Winners Announced
Lambda Literary announced the winners of the 33rd Annual Lambda Literary Awards, known as the “Lammys,” on June 1 at a ceremony hosted by Rakesh Satyal, who won a Lambda Literary Award for his debut novel, Blue Boy. Read more
Black Barbecue Gets Its Due in an Inspiring New Cookbook
The first book from renowned pitmaster and chef Rodney Scott puts a long-neglected keystone of Black American culture on the table. Read more
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Look Inside Philip Roth’s Personal Library
The author of “Goodbye, Columbus” and “The Human Stain” left several thousand books, many of them with notes or letters, to the Newark Public Library. The collection will soon open to the public. Read more
Zimbabwean novelist Tsitsi Dangarembga wins PEN Pinter prize
The prize is given by free speech campaigners English PEN in memory of the Nobel laureate Harold Pinter. It goes to a writer of “outstanding literary merit” who, as Pinter put it in his Nobel speech, shows a “fierce intellectual determination … to define the real truth of our lives and our societies”. Previous winners include Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Margaret Atwood and Linton Kwesi Johnson. Read more
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How Lin-Manuel Miranda and Friends Made an Old Bookstore New
The century-old Drama Book Shop in Manhattan struggled for years. Then “Hamilton” happened. Read more
Hobby Lobby Sues Oxford Professor Over Stolen Bible Artifacts
Craft chain Hobby Lobby is going to court again, this time to recover some $7 million it paid a former Oxford University classics professor for ancient fragments of the Christian gospels and other artifacts that turned out to be stolen. Read more
Jamie Lee Curtis’ Comet Pictures & Blumhouse Adapting Patricia Cornwell’s ‘Kay Scarpetta’ Novels For TV
Jamie Lee Curtis’ Comet Pictures and Blumhouse Televison have secured the rights to the books and are developing them as an hour-long drama series centered on the eponymous forensic pathologist. Read more
Virgin Galactic to fly popular TikToker and author Kellie Gerardi to space
Richard Branson’s space company is sending the researcher and social media star on the trip of a lifetime. Read more
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N.K. Jemisin Book Series ‘The Broken Earth’ Lands At Sony’s TriStar In 7-Figure Deal; Author To Adapt
Each book in Jemisin’s series — The Fifth Season, The Obelisk Gate and The Stone Sky — won the Hugo Award for Best Novel, making Jemisin the first person to win the award three years in a row and the first person to win for all three books in a trilogy. Read more
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