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Have copyright laws failed?

Under the editorship of John Freeman and Ellah Allfrey, Granta is thriving again.

Ann Blair’s Too Much to Know explains how across the centuries the profusion of information has always inspired readers to invent shortcuts to knowledge.

Is the cultural commons a viable alternative to the copyright regime, or does it risk turning culture into a consumerist slum?

Remembering Ben Sonnenberg (1936–2010)—writer, publisher, boulevardier—and his quarterly, Grand Street.

It's big, cheap and convenient. But does the online bookseller really serve readers' interests?

The Letters of Sylvia Beach; Günter Eich's Angina Days: Selected Poems

Joseph Stiglitz's Freefall, Mark Weiss's The Whole Island and Robert Darnton's The Case for Books.

Book publishers have always predicted that the end was nigh. When it does come they will have only themselves to blame.

Weep not for the death of the old Fourth Estate: at almost every critical hour, in every decade, it failed us.