Cees Nooteboom, Voyaging Author of Enigmatic Novels, Dies at 92 www.nytimes.com/2026/02/19/b...

Tom Stoppard, Award-Winning Playwright of Witty Drama, Dies at 88 www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/t...

David Bellos, 80, Dies; Wrestled French Wordplay Into English www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/b...

Very happy to announce that Danny Gabelman and I have finally published our first (of two) monograph on literary doodling: . More to come later this year.

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Come join me and my fantastic colleagues @columbialib as Teaching & Undergraduate Services Librarian: .

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The Death of Nonpartisan Presidential History - The Atlantic

Walter Abish, Daring Writer Who Pondered Germany, Dies at 90

An Irish National Treasure Gets Set for a Long-Needed Restoration

Elsevier plans to acquire Interfolio, which offers researcher career management services, bolstering Elsevier's competitive position against Clarivate -- if it can integrate Interfolio. via @rschon

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via @NYTimes — What Amazon has done to publishers (and readers). James D. Jenkins of Valancourt Books: “We’ve largely stopped producing scholarly editions of 18th- and 19th-century texts.”

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Publishers Are Using E-books to Extort Schools and Libraries via @thedailybeast

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'Spy pixels in emails have become endemic'

'We cannot survive': New York's Strand bookstore appeals for help

Join the Libraries @columbialib on August 18th for a discussion about remote research and assignment development. See full schedule attached.

Two major library groups join chorus of support for controlled digital lending via @internetarchive

The Correctors

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Alexander Larman echoes the spirit of Baudelaire's call for the critic to be "partiale, passionnée, politique" in "A Radical Proposal: Book Reviews Should Review Books":

SCOTUS makes the right call on copyright decision, via @NYTimes

15 Fall Scenarios

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Everything You Need to Know About the Potential Sale of .Org

Are You Ready to ROR? An Inside Look at this New Organization Identifier Registry via @scholarlykitchn

Guest Post - Dard Hunter and the Last Real Book: A Cri de Coeur - The Scholarly Kitchen

The Strand’s owner will sue city over building’s landmark status - Curbed NY

Columbia’s English PhDs are not alone in struggling to find tenure-track jobs. Pointing graduates to alt-ac jobs is understandable; however, working in GLAMs requires its own training. Efforts to help PhDs make such transitions must acknowledge this fact.

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Will E-Books Feed University Presses - Or Eat Them?  Part One - The Scholarly Kitchen

Cengage and McGraw-Hill merger faces growing opposition

Stanford University Press and the Wrong Lesson of the Humanities - The Scholarly Kitchen

Guest Post: Plan S and Humanities Publishing - The Scholarly Kitchen

Alexander McCall Smith: Preserving the pleasures of the bookshop

Quick, what was the plot of the last book you read? What happened in the last movie you saw? If you can barely remember, you're not alone, @julieebeck reports

Will Transformative Agreements Unravel Library Consortia? - The Scholarly Kitchen

University-Library Circulation Decline: Readers Respond - The Atlantic

A perverse claim of copyright by the US state of Georgia, potentially thwarting public access to all US laws:

From Clay Tablets to Smartphones: 5,000 Years of Writing

‘Feasting with Panthers’ | by Geoffrey Wheatcroft | The New York Review of Books

The Lab Discovering DNA in Old Books - The Atlantic