DURHAM, N.C. -- Duke University faculty in the social sciences and humanities who have recently published books about China will celebrate at a book party Wednesday, April 14.

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Book Party April 14 Celebrates China Studies at Duke

Many of the thousands of books that will be on sale this weekend appeared on the sale racks last year and the year before.  read more »

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Friends of the Jefferson Hills Library prepares for upcoming book sale

Very recently, quietly, unannounced, Arundhati Roy became a rare writer to visit the forbidding and forbidden precincts of Central India’s Dandakaranya Forests, home to a melange of tribespeople many of whom have taken up arms to protect their people against state-backed marauders and exploiters.

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Walking with the Comrades (Dawn)

Chimen Abramsky, who has died aged 93, was a Jewish intellectual, historian, book collector and bibliographer of world renown. Although he wrote many academic papers, he published few books. Yet his academic legacy was huge.

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Chimen Abramsky obituary (Guardian Unlimited)

Michael Foot was almost devoid of personal ambition, which is rare in a politician of first rank. He had been Liberal President of the Oxford Union and then Labour candidate in a by-election at the age of 22. Yet he had reached the age of 60 before he took office as Minister for Employment in Harold Wilson's last government

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Michael Foot: Writer and politician who rose to become leader of the Labour Party (Independent)

Unless you have been in a hole or an incredibly deep pocket, you have heard about the money problems with LSU.

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Buy books, help the library (Tiger Weekly)

Works on Islam and Buddhism are a big hit at stalls put up by publishers from South Asian countries at the World Book Fair here.

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Rare books on Islam, Buddhism a hit at South Asian stalls (Calcutta News)

WARWICK - Baby Grand Books, Warwick’s only bookstore, has closed its business effective Dec.

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Baby Grand Books closes (The Warwick Advertiser)

Harold - a genial, kind, humane, caring, gentleman. We had been friends for a half a century of years and with each passing year our friendship had matured and strengthened.

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Harold Herat - a rare politician (Daily News)

Bookies stand by for shock Booker result," yelled a headline this week. Eyebrows were raised in August about the rush of bets that were placed on Hilary Mantel's Tudor bodice-ripper, Wolf Hall, when the Booker longlist was revealed. One turf accountant stopped taking bets after Mantel reached 2/1.

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Hit & Run: Bet on any good books lately? (Independent)