Richard Wright, the pioneering black American author of Native Son is having several of his works republished.
The omnibus Black Power contains two of the three travel books he wrote in the mid-1950s, together with his White Man, Listen! lectures.
There’s also a novel he began in the final weeks of his life but never finished, A [...]

They say never judge a book by it’s cover. Well good for you, but that’s precisely how must of us, who only encounter books in airport lounges, go about buying them anyway.
First welcomes the Penguin Design Award. The winners were selected from over 40 design colleges in the United Kingdom.
The history of Penguin book design, [...]

Each year the editors of the Believer generate a short list of the novels they thought were the strongest and, in their opinion, the most undervalued of the year. The 2007 list, published this month, appears below, along with several writers’ citations.