Guadalajara Book Fair to Honor Argentine Literary Greats

Today's Feature Story: Guadalajara Book Fair to Honor Argentine Literary Greats The Guadalajara Book Fair's guest nation, Argentina, will honor literary greats and acknowledge Mexico as a haven for exiled writers during the Dirty War.

Discussion: Are African Writers Trumping African-American Authors? In the New York Times, Felicia R. Lee asks if the 'new wave of African writers' with an international appeal are drawing attention away from African-American voices.

More News from PP: Amazon Goes to the WSJ to Defend Itself In the WSJ, Amazon's Russ Grandinetti "defended the company against criticism that it is using its growing clout in electronic books to bully a major publisher."

From the Archives: Is the Gap Between Critics and Readers Widening? Criticism is drifting away from literature and, as a result, further away from readers, said a trio of authors from Spain and the US at the Hay Festival Xalapa.