Ad-free books are not impossible in the age of Amazon, just expensive Amazon released its latest slate of Kindles last week, and while the new products featured a handful of very nice features—including an 8.8mm thick bell and a hot new 4G… Read more »
How journalists and press releases rewrite science The Jonah Lehrer debacle needs no further comment here, but one interesting feature of Charles Seife’s deconstruction and evisceration of Lehrer’s Wired blog on Slate was what he called “press-release plagiarism.” Seife… Read more »
New trailer for Wuthering Heights adaptation This weekend, Vulture released a trailer for director Andrea Arnold’s film adaptation of Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë’s classic novel of tragic love and revenge. The film premiered last year at the… Read more »
SLIDESHOW: Fifty Shades of Melville Novella At Melville House we pride ourselves at bucking a trend or two, at fighting the good fight for literary scruples, but there are some trends that even we can’t ignore.… Read more »