Poetry Society evicted from its website to sell Viagra not verse
The society's website was until last week a rare literary success in cyberspace, but last Thursday visitors found the site had gone from verse to bad. By Paul Kelso.
Hans-Georg Gadamer
German philosopher who studied with Heidegger but developed the theory that language, not time and culture, determines consciousness.
Rival publisher bids for Blackwell
Academic publisher Taylor & Francis has made a formal £300m bid approach to Blackwell Publishing, the family-owned business riven by feuding shareholder factions.
Teen readers targeted in text message campaign
Parents and teachers have voiced fears over direct marketing to teenage girls via their mobile phones.
Et cetera
Steven Poole on new non-fiction: The Drama Handbook: A Guide to Reading Plays by John Lennard & Mary Luckhurst | Hidden Minds: A History of the Unconscious by Frank Tallis | Beethoven's Piano Sonatas by Charles Rosen
Speaking in tongues
John Mullan on the dizzying development of our 6,000 languages, some without tenses or with only three verbs, in John McWhorter's The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language
The secret life of Primo Levi
His moving memoir of Auschwitz is one of the great books of the 20th century yet this unassuming man has remained an enigma. Now biographer Carole Angier has discovered his last, unpublished book, which casts new light on his troubled life and mysterious death
Treasure trove may reveal X-factor
Academics and family are objecting to the sale of writings that could throw new light on the philosophy of the murdered black leader.
Bestselling author buys up 20,000 copies
David Vise, the Pullitzer Prize-winning author of The Bureau and the Mole, is at the centre of a publishing furore after buying 20,000 copies of the book himself.
Holocaust denier made bankrupt
The pro-Nazi author David Irving was yesterday declared bankrupt after failing to pay £150,000 in costs after his disastrous libel action against charges that he was a Holocaust denier. Irving now faces losing his home, a flat in Mayfair, central London, estimated to be worth £900,000.
The Student’s Guide to Exam Success
Exams frighten almost everyone. Fear of failure, and even success, can affect even the most able students. Written with the busy student in mind, this book offers a healthier way to succeed.
Roy Porter
Prolific scholar whose books and broadcasts revealed the medical and social history of Britain.