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As a major publisher stops forcing books to have author endorsements, is this the end of the road for the common cover ...

Manning argues that “trying to get blurbs is not a good use of anyone’s time”. He notes that a number of acclaimed titles in ...

In my wilder dreams, I am a bestselling literary novelist, and the jackets of my books are festooned with quotes from the ...

When all novels are thrust upon you as words of genius,’ wrote George Orwell, ‘it is quite natural to assume that all of them ...

I can't believe we have to wait another week for the Philadelphia Eagles to beat the crap out of the Kansas City Chiefs in Super Bowl LIX, I'm going to run ...

A queer art scholar claimed that the National Portrait Gallery omitted Felix González-Torres’ connection to the AIDS crisis.

Australian winter music festival Splendour In the Grass has announced it won't return for 2025, after cancelling last year's festival two weeks after the official line-up was announced.

And then everything goes wrong. So, so wrong. Hank (Dean Norris) goes to use the toilet and picks up a copy of Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass – a gift from Gale to Walter White. “To my other ...

‘Walt was really too superhuman’, Lawrence tut-tuts ... to ‘a function’, namely childbirth. In Leaves of Grass, Whitman’s cult of personality was already up and running before the reader reached the ...

Extreme cold warnings and cold weather advisories are in effect for much of the upper Midwest this morning. Cold weather conditions will improve each hour of the day today. Take a look at ...