Tim Parks keeps digging, interestingly and valuably, on the idea that writing in other languages is becoming tilted towards ease of translation into English.
John Self considers the charms and shortcomings of Ali Smith.
I have missed not only Bloomsday but also Harriet Beecher Stowe day.
In Osaka, there is a house made out of bookshelves.
Supermarkets may not be proper bookshops but, to be fair, many of their cashiers probably hate customers too.
Drink yourself to death in the style of your favourite writer.
In praise of plotlessness.
Wired — Wired! — on the disadvantages, so far, of e-reading.
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