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Didn't We Read This Story Just a Few Months Ago?

Yesterday it was announced that Moody’s has downgraded Houghton Mifflin Harcourt’s rating, which sounds sort of familiar . . . probably because they did the same thing last December. This isn’t good news for the Education Media & Publishing Group—which is incorporated in the Cayman Islands and ...

Harry Mulisch Turns 80, Receives Odd Present

Dutch author Harry Mulisch turned 80 yesterday, and as part of the celebration Mulisch’s Dutch publisher commissioned six novellas from noted Dutch authors, taking Mulisch’s novels as their departure points. It’s an unlikely homage to a writer whose exuberantly inventive, philosophical works depart from ...