What people are reading can tell you quite a lot about where they're reading it

A shopping chain has withdrawn the sale of beds named Lolita and designed for six-year-old girls

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A British import called The Dangerous Book for Boys has soared on American bestseller lists. Is it a new beacon for real boyhood—or a throwback to 1950s-style ideas of sex roles, "dangerous" in a different way than its title suggests?

For those of us who suffer from the occasionally embarrassing condition almost certainly known as xenagorabibliomania - an obsessive curiosity about the books that strangers read in open spaces - then this summer's heatwave has been a disaster

on Cody's on Telegraph in SF closing

A history of literary hoaxes

a 2005 meta-best-of list