John Hearne teaching English history at a private school in Jamaica, March 1958; photo by Grey Villet, from the LIFE archive Some Antilles readers may have heard the news that Google recently posted the image archive of LIFE magazine online–millions of photos, they say, most never actually published, and now fully searchable here. Your Antilles [...]

A Naipaul drinking game? Doug Childers, writing in the Richmond Times/Dispatch, has a suggestion for readers of The World Is What It Is: Enjoy a shot every time somebody in its pages takes a shot at V.S. First up, the sister-in-law: “When he was young, he was snobbish but he was always joking; later he [...]

The New York Times ran a nifty little story yesterday by Motoko Rich, about the wave of excitement triggered in publishing circles by Barack Obama’s mention of a book he’s been reading recently–a study of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s first hundred days in office. It turns out there are at least three recent books about [...]

Those of us not lucky enough to be at the twenty-fifth anniversary Miami Book Fair International–which ended yesterday–can at least experience a bit of the literary action vicariously, via Geoffrey Philp. From the diary he posts on his blog, it sounds like he had a very busy weekend…. And you can see his photos here, [...]

In the past year, the Writers in Prison Committee (WiPC) of International PEN has monitored over 1,000 attacks on writers and journalists in 90 countries, 200 of whom are serving long prison, others have been threatened, harassed and attacked. Tragically, since 15 November 2007, 39 have been killed, many clearly in the pursuit of their [...]