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From the 1940s to the ’60s, the Onitsha Market in southeastern Nigeria was the center of a burgeoning movement in self-help literature. Known as Onitsha Market literature, these cheap, locally ...

ALTHOUGH Tokyo is, naturally, the literary center of Japan, one of the Meccas of modern Japanese literature is a small town called Magome, in a mountain valley some hundred and fifty miles west of the ...

In December 1919, 31-year-old Frances Steloff, already a veteran New York bookseller, spotted an empty, nearly street-level retail space (“three steps down and duck your head”) for rent in midtown ...