During today's court proceedings in New York between RDR Books and Warner Bros. and "Harry Potter" author J.K. Rowling, the judge once again urged a settlement amongst the parties involved. Judge Robert P. Patterson stated that "...this case, with imagination,
On 15 April 2008, a police force led by a colonel raided the Cairo-based Malameh publishing house, which is owned by blogger Muhammad Al Sharkawi, and confiscated copies of a novel entitled "Metro". The police officers advised one of the
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, founded in 1949, is the award-winning SF magazine and original publisher of SF classics such as Stephen King's "Dark Tower," Daniel Keyes's "Flowers for Algernon," and Walter M. Miller's "A Canticle for Leibowitz."
Dignitaries, weekend, gathered at the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs, Lagos, to serenade the virtue of chief telecom regulator of the country, Engr. Ernest Ndukwe, boss of the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, whom they all serenaded for having done very
SOUTH African bookworms can thank literary Voortrekker Dusanka Stojakovic, Macmillan SA MD, for the glut of slick, locally produced titles clogging booksellers' shelves.
Enlargement, widely regarded as the greatest single achievement of the European Union since the end of the Cold War, and occasion for more or less unqualified self-congratulation, has left one inconspicuous thorn in the palm of Brussels. The furthest east
Like Welch's work, Pilcrow gets nowhere very elegantly. Adam Mars-Jones has been celebrated for the slenderness of his work, increasingly for its non-existence, as if his career were an exercise in negative theology. Pilcrow is not only very long; it
Once or twice in a lifetime, if you are lucky, the whole madness of painting seems to pass in front of your eyes. It felt that way to me in New York this spring, in the Metropolitan Museum of Art,
Among the offerings at the relaunched Granta-site: Ngugi wa Thiong'o's opinion piece on the situation in Kenya, while in The Standard Joyce Nyairo considers the role of the Writer as a mediator during times of crises, focussing also on Kenya
The Victoria and Albert Museum has two interesting-sounding book-related exhibits: Certain Trees: the Constructed Book, Poem and Object, 1964-2008 (1 April - 17 August) and Blood on Paper: the Art of the Book (15 April - 29 June).
In an interview with Helen McCrory in which she discusses various roles she has done, she briefly mentions her costume for "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince," which is currently being filmed in the UK.
