#On the Road

I’ve been ornament shopping lately, ladies and gentlemen, and I have found myself happily lingering in the bookish ornament section ...

Jack Kerouac’s most noted work, On the Road, was published on September 5, 1957.  The novel holds a spot on Modern ...

It may come as no surprise that I’m a sucker for well-designed books and book art. Or that I’m quite ...

In a globalised society, can any novel claim to be purely from one country? Does the great American novel even exist?

People are pretty excited about the film adaptation of Jack Kerouac’s On the Road, but another one of his novels will ...

As a general rule, people are slightly embarrassed by who they were as teenagers. For most of us, it was ...

I love rediscovered books. I imagine them moldering in attics, basements, cellars; secret caverns of domesticity. Hidden away with latent ...

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To find a twitching sign of life in the idea that everyone has a book in them, consider how we ...

Are electronic amplified versions of books the next big thing in publishing? Are these going to flip up the skirts ...