” A two-day exclusive display of collection of rare and contemporary books on art, literature, culture, religion and social issues started at Nomad Gallery on Saturday.”
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Ralph Stanley, 82, is one of the last, and surely the purest, of the traditional country musicians and only just got around to writing his autobiography.

By By CHARLES McGRATH

Peter McKay – Every once in a while, you get a chance to find out how much you’re worth. I’m not talking bank accounts because I’m ashamed of mine, and these days, I’ll bet you are, too. I’m talking instead about how much you’re valued around the house, what you’re worth to family members. To [...]

• Papers to take Frankfurt book fair by storm• Collection affords glimpse into ‘my mind and past’

Although the three calculations jotted on the back of a piece of paper do not look like much, the neat rows of black figures offer an elegantly brutal precis of one of the most remarkable lives of the 20th [...]

Caroline Alexander’s book is not a new translation of “The Iliad” but an attempt at a fresh reading of it, one that focuses on what it has to say about the conduct and meaning of war.

By By DWIGHT GARNER

Jane Friedman has formed a new company that will republish old titles by big-name authors in electronic form.

By By MOTOKO RICH

“Valued at just under $2 million and consisting of 72 books published between 1479 and 1731, among them several printings of Shakespeare’s works, the collection is the largest gift ever given to the rare book library, which was built in 1926 and is located in Los Angeles’ historic West Adams District.”
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Pete Dexter returns with an autobiographical novel, “Spooner,” a cradle-to-grave yarn about a well-meaning but wayward soul and his saintly stepfather.

By By ERIC KONIGSBERG

“Many of the rare books that once filled the bookcase belonged to another suitor, Pierre Reverdy. As for Hugh Grosvenor, the 2nd Duke of Westminster, he was perhaps the raison d’être for her collection of objects with wheat motifs—“a symbol of fecundity because she wanted to have a child (and heir for the duke),” suggests [...]

Harvard College Library and the National Library of China have agreed to digitize one of the largest collections of rare Chinese books outside of China, according to The Associated Press.

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“One of the biggest collections of rare Chinese books outside China is to become freely available as Harvard University has agreed to digitise the titles.”
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Barbara Ehrenreich thinks the prevalence of bogus optimism has weakened America, and she is willing to shoot fish in barrels to make that case.

By By JANET MASLIN

“The digital library features unique cultural materials — including manuscripts, maps, rare books, films, sound recordings, prints and photographs — collected from libraries and archives around the world.”
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It required an almost 40-year labor, but Angela Jackson’s first novel, “Where I Must Go,” seems to have been born at the right time.

By By FELICIA R. LEE

“The new store specializes in arcane, eclectic and obscure works, featuring rare, collectible and used books, many from Hankin’s personal collection. On the shelves are such classic writers as H.G. Wells, J.D. Salinger and Ernest Hemingway alongside collections of Italo Calvino and Primo Levi.”
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This new novel pretentiously — and clumsily — tries to create a kind of virtual-reality game version of Manhattan.

By By MICHIKO KAKUTANI

“Bright-Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America,” the new book by Barbara Ehrenreich, is based on her experience as a cancer patient.

By By PATRICIA COHEN

Arthur Dent is back as Eoin Colfer publishes novel based on Douglas Adams’s books

Hundreds of people gathered at London’s South Bank today dressed in differing hues of dressing gown and carrying towels to mark the resurrection of a fondly remembered sci-fi classic.
They were celebrating the 30th anniversary of the first book in Douglas Adams’s Hitchhiker’s [...]

German chancellor expresses fears for copyright in run-up to the Frankfurt Book Fair
German chancellor Angela Merkel yesterday waded into the row over Google’s plans to build a massive digital library. In her weekly video podcast, before the opening of the Frankfurt Book Fair this week, Merkel appealed for more international co-operation on copyright protection and [...]

German chancellor opposes the internet firm’s attempt to put every book ever written online

German chancellor Angela Merkel yesterday waded into the row over Google’s plans to build a massive digital library.
The move was a remarkable intervention from a leading world politician in a growing dispute about the threat posed by the internet, and Google in [...]