Toby Clements admires high-tech relics at a show inspired by a comic-strip hero.

Andrew McKie reviews the latest science fiction

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THIS compilation (somehow sounds much better than just "book") by Casper W Erichsen and Larrisa Förster is evocative in its very title.

The Becker Group and Warner Bros. Consumer Products announced today that it will bring worldwide "Harry Potter: The Exhibition," an exhibition highlighting artifacts from the Warner Bros. films based on J.K. Rowling's franchise, . The exhibit will premiere in Spring

As the world marked Books and Copyright Day, Kenyan writers and publishers may have had little to write home about.

Our critics present a selection of history's most notable cult writing. Some is classic. Some is catastrophic. All of it had the power to inspire.

Stephen Abell reviews Kieron Smith, Boy by James Kelman

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PEN has announced the winners of many of their 2008 literary awards.

It's certainly worth considering: at his ABC of Reading weblog Thomas McGonigle enthusiastically suggests: Pay them not to write, expanding on what was apparently a popular policy in communist Bulgaria.

In Al-Ahram Weekly David Tresilian offers an extensive look at The fun of the fair -- the London Book Fair and its Arabic market focus, that is.

In the Daily Nation Benjamin Muindi reports that Kenyan Authors have little to write home about.

The most recent addition to the complete review is our review-overview of Franco Moretti's Abstract Models for a Literary History, Graphs, Maps, Trees.

By Max RodenbeckDreams and Shadows: The Future of the Middle Eastby Robin WrightIf there is such a thing as a pinnacle in the landscape of international journalism, Robin Wright surely stands atop it. The Washington Post's chief diplomatic correspondent has

By Wang Lixiong and over 300 others1. At present the one-sided propaganda of the official Chinese media is having the effect of stirring up inter-ethnic animosity and aggravating an already tense situation. This is extremely detrimental to the long-term goal

By Natalie Zemon DavisThe Capture of Speech and Other Political Writingstranslated from the French and with an afterword by Tom Conley, edited and with an introduction by Luce GiardThe Certeau Readeredited by Graham WardCulture in the Pluraltranslated from the French