“In his new book, The Court and the World: American Law and the New Global Realities, Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer details why American courts no longer have any choice about involving themselves in the law beyond U.S. borders.” Listen to his interview on NPR.
As part of a series they are calling The Paper Trail, NPR looks at the current state of paper, the book and bookstores:
Bill Gates shares his summer reading list with Esquire: “Heavy on nerd, light on non-nerd.”
Courtesy of Open Culture, I recently came across this wonderful video of a Japanese craftsman restoring a treasured book to mint condition. While I don’t understand the language, I understand the care and love for old books. According to the Open Culture site, this episode […]
I think I would have to agree with this fun post by Kelly Gallucci at Bookish, of ten gifts that readers really want for Christmas. My favorite is the first on the list, which is the only a pair of noise canceling headphones for reading […]
“At some point, all the horizontal trips in the world stop compensating for the need to go deep, into somewhere challenging and unexpected; movement makes most sense when grounded in stillness. In an age of speed, I began to think, nothing could be more invigorating […]
It’s the time of year when various media outlets begin to list their picks of the best books of the year. The New York Times Book Review has compiled its annual list of the year’s 100 best. Amazon has made its list. Book-lovers will also […]