How did the scroll of the ancient world evolve into the modern book? (And what is a codex?)

Christians did not invent the codex, but their scribes gave its use to the Roman world, passing on most of classical literature to us in the process.

Benjamin Harnett, Aeon

· Apr 24, 2019 · 05:30 pm

British literature is richly tangled with other cultures. Why is it sold as largely white writing?

Nadifa Mohamed and Daljit Nagra are as British as Ian McEwan and Julian Barnes.

Erica Lombard, The Conversation

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Elleke Boehmer, The Conversation

· Oct 22, 2017 · 05:30 pm

If you check in at the world’s largest literary hotel, you might never want to go out (or leave)

In the Portuguese town of Óbidos is The Literary Man, where books rule over everything.

Ipshita Mitra

· Oct 22, 2017 · 08:30 am

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie speaks as well as she writes, maybe better

The Nigerian author is a compelling storyteller even on stage, and has said more extraodinary things in six years than most authors write in a lifetime.

Shreya Ila Anasuya

· Jun 20, 2015 · 09:00 am