May 30, 2013

The biggest convention in the lie industry is taking place again in New York this week. Lie publicists, marketers, editors, peddlers of lies, and of course the tireless liars themselves have arrived… Read more »

Arts & Culture

Jenny Holzer drops art app: lit refs abound — Mike Lindgren
Surge in sales of "difficult" books during worldwide lockdowns — Tom Clayton
Very old snack found in even older book — Tom Clayton
Sarah, Duchess of York to write seven more children's books with Serenity Press — Tom Clayton

Malcolm Gladwell wonders if historic NYC library wouldn’t be better sold off as “luxury condos”

Kelly Burdick

In a BookExpo appearance on Wednesday, bestselling author Malcolm Gladwell attacked the New York Public Library’s controversial “Central Library Plan,” calling the historic, Carrère & Hastings-designed 42nd Street library a… Read more »

Eichmann’s German: what English-speaking viewers are missing in the new film, Hannah Arendt

Sal Robinson

This week marks the U.S. opening of Hannah Arendt, a movie from German director Margarethe von Trotta that portrays the months Hannah Arendt spent reporting on the trial of Adolf… Read more »

Browsing in Italian Bookstores

Claire Kelley

Last year around this time, the New York Times happily announced that French bookstores are still thriving. The article suggested that the French value books as cultural objects, and that the writer is… Read more »

Pearl S. Buck’s long-lost final novel

Nick Davies

Pearl S. Buck , the first American woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, is best known for her novel The Good Earth, which also earned her a Pulitzer Prize.… Read more »

Melville House Books

Liars from across the nation descend on New York City

Dustin Kurtz