They pick these books that touch on different parts of literary culture and popular culture in really interesting ways.

FORBES: A Meaningful Publisher

The interest in literary culture is still, however, sometimes surprisingly shallow.

ECONOMIST: Life in Los Angeles

He is the most important figure in twentieth-century English-language literary culture.

NEWYORKER: Practical Cat

Professor Robert Englund of the University of California believes that the culture that flowered in this region around the delta that flows from the Tigris and Euphrates rivers formed the basis for what is almost certainly the world's oldest literary culture.

BBC: Iraq honours the word

Look for patterns that suggest how culture and literary conventions migrate across time and space.

FORBES: Magazine Article

The Storymoja Hay literary festival is an annual gathering that celebrates contemporary culture and ideas through storytelling, books, live discussion forums, workshops, debates, live performances, and music.

FORBES: The Hay Festival Goes To Kenya

There would appear to be little common ground between Vice, a bawdy catalog of the dangerously exotic fringes of global youth culture, and the Paris Review, and esteemed literary journal, but Rocco Castoro, the editor of Vice, said "the staffs of our publications run in the same circles" and called himself an avid reader of the Paris Review.

WSJ: Party for the Paris Review's Summer Issue and Vice Magazine's New Fiction Issue

He liked high culture, and basking in the reflected glory of the literary and artistic elite.

ECONOMIST: Charles Haughey

Literary festivals are growing, too, which suggests that people are willing to pay for their culture.

ECONOMIST: Dumbed-down Britain? You would be stupid to believe it