The youth and gangs of the London riots stole everything from plasma TVs to clothes, but they didn't steal books. Some bookstores even remained open. Read More

This #Follow Friday we look at Edward Champion's Reluctant Habits and the Bat Segundo Show, English Major's Junk Food, and Syd Gill's e-book design aspirations. Read More

We reported yesterday that Edgar Allan Poe's house is in danger of being shuttered. Now we find that an employee pilfered one mil from the Mark Twain estate. Read More

Your choice of words might reveal more about you than you think, including lies, love, and leadership styles - so says psychologist Pennebaker. Read More

Author and industrial relations scholar Braham Dabsheck carefully unlayers Alpert's "Out of Left Field: Jews and Black Baseball." Read More

This Friday we follow Tayari Jones, Seth Fried, and the folks at Escarp. And yes, I'm still using the Oxford comma. Boddah you? Read More

Industrial relations scholar and author of "Reading Baseball" Braham Dabscheck offers a critical review of "Cuban Star." Read More

For the first time in English, a 2006 interview with David Foster Wallace has been published in the NYR of Books. Wallace may have rambled, but he waxed eloquent. Read More

This week's long-form #Follow Friday brings us some strong independent minds for poetry and imagery. We feature @davidglensmith, @thestorialist, and @marybid. Read More

This year's Man Booker International Prize has gone to Philip Roth (Goodbye, Columbus; The Human Stain; The Plot Against America), but not without controversy. Read More