December 05, 2014 » MobyLives! Archives

Barnes & Noble and Microsoft are surpassing the Gwyneth Paltrow/Chris Martin story as this year’s juiciest breakup. After two years of marriage, B&N and Microsoft have officially split, and their breakup letters made it into… Read more »

Arts & Culture

Salman Rushdie, Ian Rankin and Joanne Harris amongst those recognised in the Queen’s birthday honours list — Nikki Griffiths
Lost Charlotte Brontë manuscript sold for $1.25 million — Nikki Griffiths
Waterstones appeal aims to raise £1m for Ukraine disaster fund — Tom Clayton
The Big Jubilee Read: 70 books are selected to mark Queen Elizabeth II's 70 year reign — Nikki Griffiths

In the clink: George Orwell’s time in prison

Zeljka Marosevic

In 1933, George Orwell’s now canonical memoir Down and Out in Paris and London was published, documenting his vivid recollections of living among the poor and destitute. But suspicions of… Read more »

“The world we are living in… we have to make it over”: An interview with James Baldwin

Sal Robinson

It’s been a week—a couple of weeks—where James Baldwin’s analyses of race in America seem more relevant than ever. In December 1961, in the midst of the civil rights movement, Studs… Read more »

The New Republic morphs from magazine to vertically integrated digital media company, and loses editors in the process

Julia Fleischaker

The New Republic is undergoing a major shift, as top editors leave and the venerable publication is reenvisioned as “as a vertically integrated digital media company.” Editor Franklin Foer, who… Read more »

Melville House Books

December 5, 2014

Barnes & Noble and Microsoft are over

Kirsten Reach