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Anthony Burgess told 3 versions of the attack behind A Clockwork Orange; biographers call his memoir a pack of lies.

Fantagraphics Books is nearing completion of its ambitious mission to publish the entirety of master cartoonist Carl Barks's 1942-1966 run of Donald Duck comics for Western Publishing. Comics fans (full ...

A 2014 fanfic rewrote Harry Potter with prayer instead of magic and Voldemort as a Reddit atheist. Hoax or sincere?

Peter Matthiessen co-founded the Paris Review as CIA cover; a new biography and LRB essay untangle his double life.

The Wicked Bible of 1631 left 'not' out of 'thou shalt not commit adultery.' About 25 copies survive today.

Solvej Balle's incredible story of a woman trapped in time continues in Book II of On the Calculation of Volume.

Verba Prima is an archive of thousands of first sentences from notable literary works, browsable one line at a time.

Andrew Judson has read every Caldecott Medal winner and honor book his local library owns, mostly out loud to his daughter, and ranked the worst ones by their words, not their art -- since the Caldecott is awarded "based solely on the art," even the ...

In the 1950s, while helping invent computers, John Von Neumann was puzzling over the minimum requirements for a self-reproducing machine. Kevin Kelly has been asking the same question about civilization: what is the smallest library that could ...

"Don't judge a book by its cover," they say, but how can one not? The cover's right there. Uncovered is a website that forces the issue by presenting book excerpts without the cover--or the author, or the title!--to distract you. There's no account ...