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

Don’t just look at buildings --- read about them, too! — Alex Primiani
Revisiting the fine art of the Weiwei-ism for Ai Weiwei’s sixtieth birthday — Melville House
Tfw when you steal the Mona Lisa and hang on to it for two years — Melville House
An artist transforms Ovid’s Metamorphoses... with blood — Peter Kranitz

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