Is the Atlantic making us stupid? A CIA front? A killer of criticism? A stupid machine?… Read more »
Cops trashing books: not just for the NYPD anymore Last Friday morning in the Al-Nabi Daniel bookstalls of Alexandria, security forces — reportedly sent by newly elected governor Mohamed Atta Abbas — destroyed sixteen of the market’s forty-eight stalls.… Read more »
Is Reed Elsevier nearing the iceberg? Reed Elsevier scored big on Monday when the landmark papers reporting on the Higgs-Boson particle were published in their journal Physics Letters B, where they are freely available online to… Read more »
Talking shop with an indie bookseller This is a new and occasional series that asks some of our favorite independent booksellers four simple questions. The questions are the same, but the answers (predictably) vary. If you’re… Read more »