The Nobel
Bloodbath Continues: The Swedish Academy says a seventh board
member has stepped down amid a crisis at the institution that awards the Nobel
Prize in literature.
Learning
Seattle's Lessons: Amazon has surprised officials in cities
vying for the company’s new headquarters by asking how to avoid soaring housing
costs and paralyzing traffic.
A Bookstore
Grows in Taiwan: A Hong Kong bookseller returned from Chinese
custody is opening a new bookshop in Taiwan to combat "forcible control by
mainland China."
Where's the
'Moby-Dick' Follow-Up?: By June 1853, Herman Melville had taken
a new novel to his New York publisher. That is the last time the finished
manuscript was seen.
The Novelist and
the Slave: In 1931, Zora Neale Hurston sought to publish the
story of Cudjo Lewis, the final slave-ship survivor. Instead, it languished in
a vault. Until now.
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