Stop the EC Copyright Filtering Proposal! It breaks the internet as an open platform fit for science and education, by embedding an automated infrastructure for monitoring and censorship eff.org/deeplinks/2018… #Article13

France's famous Maurice the cockerel has day in court at last theguardian.com/world/2019/jul…

bbc.com/news/world-eur… Worth the read

Magritte masterpiece expected to sell for record £45m at auction theguardian.com/artanddesign/2…

#DaphneCaruanaGalizia Scholarship at Reporter:innen-Forum for a portrait of Daphne Caruana Galizia and her journalistic work in text or film, print, online or TV. The scholarship is to finance the research: reporter-forum.de Thank you to the anonymous donors and organisers.

BBC News - Huge black hole blasts out 'double burp' bbc.com/news/science-e…

A hidden history of the Jordaan brussels-express.eu/hidden-history… via Brussels Express

Vincent began a relationship with his neighbour Margot an unmarried woman 13 years his senior. When Margot’s niece caught them, she was sent away. Margot subsequently unsuccessfully attempted to commit suicide by taking a non-lethal dose of strychnine. The Vicarage at Nuenen,1885

Sex, porn, addiction, loneliness. "Was I fundamentally flawed?" Read an excerpt from Erica Garza's brave new memoir #GettingOff, in stores now: bit.ly/2CI0vH3

Thanks to the amazing Heidi James, we now have an extra free slot for low-earners, for the London 'Critical reading, critical writing' class (beginning 19 Feb). Read about it here - and get in touch! galleybeggar.co.uk/school-critica…

Have you read 1978 winner The Sea, The Sea? None of Charles Arrowby’s plans work out & his memoir evolves into a riveting chronicle of strange events & unexpected visitors that disrupt his world & shake his oversized ego to its very core #ManBooker50 festival 6 - 8 July 2018

Just in from the printer: the seventh edition of Svetlana Alexievich’s SECOND-HAND TIME, in Bela Shayevich’s award-winning translation.

There's one week left to enter our 2018 Essay Prize, which awards £3,000 to the best proposal for a book-length essay by an unpublished writer. More details here: fitzcarraldoeditions.com/prizes/essay-p…

Our 'footprints' series has writers talking about place and inspiration. This month it's Donald Rayfield on Dostoevsky's St Petersburg, as Rayfield walks in Raskolnikov's path: ow.ly/A1N930iNTO8

Patrick Langley's ARKADY launches tonight at the ArtReview bar | March news | Subscribe to Fitzcarraldo Editions - mailchi.mp/fitzcarraldoed…

.Adrian Tinniswood on Jane Stevenson's Baroque between the Wars, a response to the 'easy juxtaposition of hard-edged, ideologically driven modernism and the anti-industrial nostalgia that was a relic of the Arts and Crafts movement'. ow.ly/ETjb30iNUXg

astonishingly cambridge analytica is right round the corner from the bookshop. after the fuss has died down a bit i thoroughly intend to ring their doorbell and run away

The Fitzcarraldo Editions Novel Prize is officially open from submissions today. Deadline 15 July 2018. Details here: fitzcarraldoeditions.com/prizes/novel-p…

The Daphne Project: watch what these brave and committed journalists from around the world poured their hearts into at forbiddenstories.org/case/the-daphn…

It is my birth-day. Today we wish the man himself a very Happy Birthday. How would you help Shakespeare celebrate? Bear in mind he would be 454 years old, not that we think that would stop him having a good time. #HappyBirthdayShakespeare