If you’re a politician in Britain today everything is political. Even your holidays. Whether you even go on holiday. Who with (Silvio Berlusconi is not a good idea. Cf. Mr Blair). What you wear ...

Auf den Vortrag von Christian Gasser bei den Europäischen Literaturtagen 2013 freute ich mich schon seit zwölf Stunden. Auf dem nächtlichen Weg von der Eröffnungsveranstaltung ins Hotel zog er ein ...

For once we in the UK share something positive with the rest of Europe: we’re enjoying a heatwave! But in spite of our generally Eurosceptic tendencies in the UK, I am happy to announce that we are ...

Chris Meade ist Direktor des Instituts The Future of the Book in London. Für das „Zukunftsatelier Buch_Text” der Solothurner Literaturtage 2014 schrieb er folgenden Beitrag, der hier in Kooperation ...

The Studio on the Future of Books and Texts at the 2014 Solothurn Literature Days featured a series of lectures and discussions on the future of the book, which will be collected in the “Observatory ...

My summer reading is so precious that I start gathering my pile of holiday books as early as Christmas. And I look forward to it like a child at Christmas too, knowing that summer – as it is for many ...

As writers, we tend to be preoccupied with the production of text. We rely on someone else doing the right thing with our material and being successful at marketing. If this doesn’t happen, we’re ...

President Bill Clinton famously described the UK’s Hay-on-Wye literature festival as ‘the Woodstock of the Mind’. But for me ‘Woodstock’ doesn’t quite convey the quintessential British nature of 2 ...

Pius Knüsel, Director of Volkshochschule Zürich [Community College of the Canton of Zurich. For series of events „Workshopping the Future: Book_Text“ at the Solothurner Literaturtage he wrote the ...

The “Studio on the Future of Book and Text” at the Solothurner Literaturtage 2014 featured a series of lectures and discussions on the future of the book, which will be collected in the “Observatory ...