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 ...

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It’s a moment of my stage door johnnying that belongs with the autograph I got from Sir John Gielgud ... of Christian humanism – so grandly and calmly articulated in Thomas More’s Utopia – and the ...

The South Carolina Board of Education voted on Tuesday, Feb. 4, to add four more books to its state-sanctioned book ban list. This brings the number of books banned in S.C. schools to 11.

Credit: PA Images A signed copy of Sir Paul McCartney’s 2021 book The Lyrics: 1956 to the Present and an accompanying Abbey Road Studios experience has sold for more than £51,000 at an auction ...

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Paul Fussell’s 50-year-old survey of trench warfare deserves a new generation of readers, our book critic writes.