Publishers’ disappointments and regrets

‘Kate Figes finds out which books were left on the shelf and which were the envy of all’ from a variety of UK publishers.

Covers: David Pearson’s New Classics

Pearson does the typesetting himself, and invites some of his favourite designers to do the covers and endpapers

Levi’s The World of Lucha Libre Reviewed in The Stranger

Levi lays the entire world of lucha libre at the reader’s feet, from the adulation of the crowd to the metallic smell of blood in the ring

He’s bringing sexy books

Bookkake is publishing print-on-demand editions of classic… well, I’m a bit stuck for the word.

Insults from all over

“Tell us, Bint Majzoub, which of your husbands was the best?”

Screening Sex Reviewed in Bookforum

For those who object to the rise of pornography studies as an academic subfield or balk at paying astronomical tuition so their kids can watch people boink on-screen for course credit, Linda Williams is the one to blam

Interview with Geoffrey C. Kabat

In other cases, a scare can arise due to anecdotal reports of adverse health effect

Belinda Webb: A Clockwork Apple

There’s an old idiom that states you can’t compare apples to oranges but in the case of Belinda Webb’s A Clockwork Apple (2008) you can’t help compare it to Anthony Burgess’ A Clockwork Orange, purely because it follows the source so closely.

Dylan Thomas Prize longlist

They’ve announced the 14-title strong longlist for the £60,000 Dylan Thomas Prize for young writers (under-thirties only)

Who are scientists?

The July 6 Boston Globe published an enlightening interview with Steven Shapin, Harvard professor of the History of Science and author of the forthcoming book The Scientific Life: A Moral History of a Late Modern Vocation.

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