The new US ambassador to Japan, George Glass, has expressed hope that the United States and Japan will reach an agreement on the issue of tariffs. Glass spoke to reporters after he and his wife ...

The total value of an artist’s artworks sold at auction over a specific period. This metric reflects the artist’s overall market activity and demand in monetary terms. The middle value of all realized ...

George Orwell, the British writer from the mid-twentieth century, is in the news these days. Some suggest we are stuck in “Animal Farm,” “an animal fable about totalitarianism,” but others believe ...

The American Library Association and Banned Books Week Coalition are pleased to announce the theme for Banned Books Week 2025: “Censorship Is So 1984. Read for Your Rights.” Banned Books Week will ...

Many of you have likely read George Orwell’s dystopian masterpiece “1984,” and though I usually despise clichés, I acknowledge that in my most recent reading of the novel I found myself ...

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Whitefriars continued to make Textured domestic glass, notably the new Glacier range of 1972 and a series of millefiori paperweights, but the end came in 1980. The trademark Whitefriars is now owned ...

The SoCal Indie Bestsellers List for the sales week ended April 13 is based on reporting from the independent booksellers of Southern California, the California Independent Booksellers Alliance ...

We learn about Powell’s short, unhappy stint in Hollywood; about how, during the war, he masterminded the supply of soap to the Poles; of his friendships with Malcolm Muggeridge, Evelyn Waugh and ...