July is the month when many countries celebrate their national day: it was Canada Day on the 1st, America’s birthday (of course) on the 4th, but also Algeria’s and Venezuela’s Independence Day celebrations on the 5th, Malawi’s ...

My love affair with the kingdom of books began in 2003, when I first read Paul Collins’s delightful memoir, Sixpence House: Lost in a Town of Books, his account of his family’s attempt to make a go at life in Hay-on-Wye, the or...

April 1st marked not just April Fool’s Day but also the International Edible Book Festival 2013 . This was the first year the tradition was celebrated on campus at the University of Maryland. Art librarian Judith A. Hoffberg an...