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Protesters Are Awesome: Banned Books Back in Egypt and Tunisia
Banned books return to Tunisia and Egypt, signifying an ease on censorship in the newly dictatorless countries.
Lifestyle
Food for Thinkers: Food Writing Gets Hot and Heavy
The fiction writer Scott Geiger explores how words take on the texture and sensory richness of food in Thomas Wolfe's novel Look Homeward, Angel.
Culture
Can 2010's Biggest Books Save Your Life?
Here's what happens when you mix guns and literature.
Culture
Victorian Romance Between Data and Literature
Two historians are charting how frequently words like "God," "love," "work," and "science" appear in turn-of-the-century Victorian literature.
Culture
What Are the Best New Blogs on the Internet?
Bygone Bureau talks with bloggers to determine 2010's best new additions to your RSS.
Culture
A Skeptic's Guide to Writers' Houses, in Photos
In A Skeptic's Guide to Writers' Houses, Anne Trubek visits homes of greats from Poe to Twain to Hemingway, and the past smashes into the present.
Culture
Should Quidditch be an NCAA Sport? The Real-Life World Cup of a Fictional Sport
Thousands of somewhat athletic Harry Potter fans donned silly outfits and custom brooms to participate in the real life Quidditch World Cup.
Culture
GOOD Design Daily: Jonathan Safran Foer Die-Cuts One Book into Another
Jonathan Safran Foer used die-cutting to literally carve his new book, Tree of Codes, from the pages of Bruno Schulz's Street of Crocodiles.
Lifestyle
David Foster Wallace on the Endlessly Entertaining Illinois State Fair
A peripatetic feeding frenzy of shaved ice, cotton candy, gyros, stuffed jalepenos, chitlins, Krakkles, funnel cakes, and more.
Culture
Contest: Send Us a 200-Word Review of Jonathan Franzen's Freedom (Deadline Wednesday)
GOOD's Book Club needs your clever reviews of the brick of a book, Freedom. Deadline is Wednesday, and there are prizes (and glory) to be had.
Culture
It's Nobel Time: Literature
The winner, largely a surprise choice, is the Peruvian novelist and politician Mario Vargas Llosa.
Culture
Breaking Down the Broken Down Characters in Jonathan Franzen's Freedom (Part 1)
Midway into the Berglunds' unravelling, we tackle the fabulous self-destruction, potential misogyny, and stomach-turning pathos of Freedom.
Culture
Turning the Literary Canon into Artful Wall Posters
What you're looking at is a clever arrangement of every word of Franz Kafka's classic 1915 novella The Metamorphosis, in which the traveling...
Culture
Time to Stop Reading George Orwell?
Darryl Campbell's essay for The Millions, "Orwell and the Tea Party," examines the legacy of the increasingly misquoted George Orwell. Campbell...
Culture
Why Don't More Writers Buy Books?
A new submission model—wherein writers must buy a book if they want their work to be considered for publication—is shaking up the literary...
Technology
Fighting Against the Google-Scan Monster
In its effort to digitize absolutely everything, the internet behemoth Google has found an unlikely opponent: the National Library of Wales....
Culture
What's the Russian Ulysses?
Today is Bloomsday, the 106th anniversary of the day on which the events of James Joyce's novel Ulysses take place; it has since become an annual...
Culture
Walter Mosley on Writing Tips and the Promise of the iPad
Fiction, non-fiction, science fiction, historical fiction—Walter Mosley (of Easy Rawlins fame) has spanned just about every genre. The master...
