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A Kingdom of Books

By Theodore Dalrymple The small and pleasant town of Hay-on-Wye (current population: 1,675, or 500 fewer than in 1870), just on the Welsh side of the border between England and Wales, has been one of my favorite destinations for upward of 55 years. Hay-on-Wye was the first town in the world to make the sale of secondhand books its principal business; at its apogee, it boasted 30 used bookstores. Even now, despite the decline of the book as the s…
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newenglishreview.org broke the news in on Friday, March 13, 2026.
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