Congratulations – you can read! (Presumably. Unless you just look at Londonist for the pictures.) Literacy is sexy. Hyper-literacy, even sexier. Or so we at Londonist tell ourselves as we don our Coke-bottle glasses and curl up each night with a bottle of wine and a dictionary. But enough about our steamy Valentine’s Day plans. What have you got planned? Now, you may have inferred that we’re a jaded lot over here at Londonist.......

Just out the Van: The London Literature Festival, a two week Festival, starts today at the South Bank Centre. Some of the highlights over the weekend and next week include: Sat 30 June - The Uk's biggest ever Book Crossing (free). Mon 2 July - Pat Barker launches her new novel, Life Class, with a reading and discussion about her life as a writer in her only London show (£8.50). Tues 3 July -......

La forza d'un bel viso a che mi sprona? C'altro non è c'al mondo mi diletti: ascender vivo fra gli spirti eletti per grazia tal, c'ogni altra par men buona. Se ben col fattor l'opra suo consuona, che colpa vuol giustizia ch'io n'aspetti, s'i' amo, anz'ardo, e per divin concetti onoro e stimo ogni gentil persona? We're currently lucky enough in this town to have the chance to see Michelangelo's drawings in the Michelangelo......

The Londonist Literary List appears every Tuesday. If you’d like to bring an event to our attention, please email londonistlit@gmail.com. Among the treats available to lit lovers this week are a reading in a cemetery, a reading in Shakespeare's Globe, and if you're willing to travel to Oxford, a whole slew of famous faces over the next couple of days... Events Around London (and Beyond): The Oxford Literary Festival continues through tomorrow (the 29th),......