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After more than half a century, the last issue of She hits newsstands this month. Tim Rostron recalls his time there in the 1980s ...  read more »

Good news for publishers and festive cheer for bibliophiles at the Printers' Ball in Chicago ...  read more »

Roberto Bolaño's non-fiction is often just as mysterious as his fiction ...  read more »

A little something from Wednesday's headlines. The Times seems to have won this round.

One can't help but wonder how many proofs of purchase one might need to send in order to get the free Ai Weiwei.

(Thanks to Ian Winter for supplying the photograph.)

What were the best comic books of the last year? Dan Nadel, founder of the PictureBox publishing house, lists his favourites ...  read more »

Lionel Shriver's novels are smart, weighty and ambiguous. All she needs are more readers, writes Reese Okyong Kwon ...  read more »

The world is lousy with aspiring novelists who will probably never be published. Alix Christie offers insight into what keeps them working ...  read more »

One of America's great experimental writers died on June 4th in New York City, aged 82. Catherine Corman considers his legacy ...  read more »

"I always said I wasn’t going to write about Norman because no one would believe it," Norris Church Mailer has said. "But when you go to bed after you’ve lost your husband, you start thinking about the life together, and it just poured out..."  read more »