The journal n+1 and the Columbia Journalism Review have both launched online supplements devoted to book reviews.

In Moscow, a new metro station dedicated to the writer Fyodor Dostoevsky has opened, on Suvorovskaya Square, with mosaics featuring storylines from his work.

The Black Stallion Literacy Project encourages young readers by inviting them to read books to horses.

Apparently no one is interested in Jay McGwire’s book proposal for a tell-all account of how he introduced his older brother, the baseball player Mark McGwire, to steroids.

The first Dubai International Poetry Festival will be held in March; a thousand poets from forty-five countries will participate.

Diamond Comics, DC Comics, and Top Cow have all reported layoffs as a result of decreased comic-book sales; Diamond Comics has asked its remaining employees to accept pay cuts.

Vladimir Pistalo has won the 2008 NIN literary award, which names the best Serbian work of fiction each year, for his novel “Tesla, A Portrait Among the Masks.”

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