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Camille Paglia argues that students who attend trade schools end up better off than “glib, cynical, neurotic elite-school graduates.”

If you buy it instead of twenty-two new books, the Kindle is an eco-friendly choice.

Borders will begin selling Build-A-Bear stuffed-animal kits in its stores.

Offended by a bullfighting reference in the 2006 poem “Tate’s Avenue,” an animal-rights activist showed up at a literary festival in Suffolk to protest Seamus Heaney’s appearance.

“To be or not to be,” or, “taH pagh taHbe”: the Washington Shakespeare Company performs “The Klingon Hamlet.”

Mark Peters on the “rampant misuse” of the word “Orwellian.”

Barnes & Noble will close its Lincoln Triangle Manhattan store.

The top ten typefaces of the decade.

Philip Roth, John Banville, and Amos Oz are among the nominees for this year’s Bad Sex in Fiction Award.

Colum McCann, T. J. Stiles, and Keith Waldrop win National Book Awards.

“The Imperial Cruise” argues that Theodore Roosevelt based his foreign policy on odd notions of race.

Junot Diaz failed for five years while writing “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao.”

Big event books get their own movie-style trailers.

Karl Rove’s memoir “Courage and Responsibility” will be published in March.

A Minnesota father spoke only Klingon to his child for three years.

Barack Obama is the subject of more than sixty children’s books.