Those bloody Victorians could never build anything properly. The House of Commons chamber is leaking, and may have to be closed down for three years while the roof is repaired. This means one of four things: 1) The Lower House moves to a temporary venue suitable for debating matters of international importance. 2) Rather than closing the chamber, repair-work could be extended over a longer period, taking place during summer recess - this could......

In Next Week: Next Wednesday the winner of the Rossica Prize, awarded every other year for excellence in literary translation from Russian into English, is announced after readings from the short-listed translations. This year’s submissions include texts ranging from the 19th to the 21st century, from Tolstoy's War and Peace to Ismailov's The Railway - our Russian is a bit rusty but хорошее везение к каждому... 23 May at 7pm, £6, The London Review......

Wired reports that London is on its way – once again? – to becoming a new media giant. Or rather, a "new media" giant. "London 2.0" they're calling it. We don't know who "they" are, but that's what they're calling it. Probably some group called "Special Action Committee To Get People To Start Using The Expression 'London 2.0'" (SACGPSUEL). And with the Future of Web Apps conference going on this week (FOWA) at the......

The Londonist Literary List appears every Tuesday. If you'd like to bring an event to our attention, please email londonistlit@gmail.com. Tonight It isn't Christmas without a Dickensian orphan boy made good, and here we have a discussion about the two greatest; Oliver Twist (did anyone see the Polanski film [pictured]?) and Pip from Great Expectations. 6.30 - 8pm, £6/£4, the British Library, Conference Centre, St Pancras. Celebrate the launch of Strange Attractor Journal Three......

The Londonist Literary List appears every Tuesday. If you'd like to bring an event to our attention, please email londonistlit@gmail.com. Those of us with an addiction to lists may have looked on folornly at this recent compilation of no less than 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die - but it did make us think of a drinking game to play. It includes a shot glass, a bottle of cheap vodka, three pairs......

The Londonist Literary List appears every Tuesday. If you'd like to bring an event to our attention, please email londonistlit@gmail.com. Wednesday The Palestinian poet Mourid Barghoutir has fourteen books under his belt and has been described by Edward Said as “one of the finest existential accounts of Palestinian displacement we now have”. Tonight Barghouti will give a talk on the nature of exile, read his poetry (in English) and a short extract from I......

The Londonist Literary List appears every Tuesday. If you'd like to bring an event to our attention, please email londonistlit@gmail.com. Tonight Mark Haddon, author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, which won the Whitbread Book of the Year Award way back in 2003, discusses his writing and latest book A Spot of Bother. £8.50 at the Royal Festival Hall, 7:45 pm in the Purcell Room, find out more. Kevin McCloud......

The Londonist Literary List appears every Tuesday. If you'd like to bring an event to our attention, please email londonistlit@gmail.com. It's a busy old week, so let's get on: Tonight May Contain Graphic Content poses the question "Are graphic novels a complex and creative new literary form – or just glorified comic strips?" and they have some interesting speakers to debate the topic including Dan Franklin of Jonathan Cape, publisher of Ghost World, Jimmy......

The Londonist Literary List appears every Tuesday. If you'd like to bring an event to our attention, please email londonistlit@gmail.com. Wednesday To eat or not to eat? Professor of Ethics Peter Singer, author of “Animal Liberation” and “How Are We to Live?: Ethics in an Age of Self-Interest” gives us food for thought in his new book Eating, in which he discusses the effects of the diet choices we make (to ourselves and the......

The Londonist Literary List appears every Tuesday. If you'd like to bring an event to our attention, please email londonistlit@gmail.com. Wednesday If know your manga from your anime, your Akira from your Ghost in the Shell, tonight's Tokyopop Manga looks set to draw a dedicated fan-crowd with an evening of music, film and art, including a masterclass and competitions, at the Foyles Gallery, 6.30pm. Tickets are free, but reserve yours by emailing mangaATfoyles.co.uk. The......

The Londonist Literary List appears every Tuesday. If you’d like to bring an event to our attention, please email londonistlit@gmail.com. To start us off, 3AM Magazine has an interview with Tom McCarthy whose debut novel, Remainder, has just been published by Alma Books, and whose critical essay, Tintin and the Secret Literature, is reviewed in the Guardian. And sticking with comics, Free New Books provides an eclectic library of downloadable reads, of most interest......

The Londonist Literary List appears every Tuesday. If you’d like to bring an event to our attention, please email londonistlit@gmail.com. Tuesday 27 June Is there such a thing as Women’s Journalism? Eleanor Mills, co-editor of Cupcakes and Kalashnikovs - 100 Years of the Best Journalism by Women, argues that women have a special strength when they put themselves and their point of view into what they write, giving examples from the last century. 6.30pm......

So we enter Endgame. Architecture week and the London Architecture Biennale (LAB) draw to a close this weekend. And we still haven't figured out how to pronounce 'biennale'. Here’s our pick of the final flourish. Friday Walks: A bevy of novel guided walks are available on Friday. The Borough Market Experience (£5, 9am) tours the Victorian marketplace, highlighting both its ancient roots and its modern refurbs. Shakespeare, Social Space and Design (£7, 10.30, George......

One for the ladeez: capitalwoman is back for its fifth year and will be held on Saturday 4th March at the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre and Central Hall Westminster. This annual conference organised by Mayor of London Ken Livingstone, is open to all women of all ages and backgrounds, is free to attend (registration is necessary) and is the chance for women to come together to discuss the issues that affect them. There......

We said in this morning's Extra, Extra section that London was a "very strong candidate" to be the site of the start of the 2007 Tour de France. Well, we didn't lie, because in the past few hours Ken has announced that organisers the Amaury Sport Organisation, have award London the 'Grand Depart'. Here's the statement: 'I am proud to announce that London has successfully bid to host the Grand Depart of the Tour......

The Londonist Literary List appears every Tuesday. If you’d like to bring an event to our attention, please email londonistlit@gmail.com. Thank you thank you thank you, Smoke, for being the first literary journal to actually take us up on our offer for free publicity!! Smoke's got a new issue out, and they want you to know about it, and they want us to help you know about it, and if you scroll down to......