September 23, 2016

Less than two weeks after John Kerry announced that the U.S. was working with the Russian government to establish an (already compromised) ceasefire in Syria, a group of Syrian writers, artists,… Read more »

Letters

Writers and publishers stand in support of trans and non-binary people — Allison Green
Abe announces most expensive book sales of 2019; Abe wins — Tom Clayton
UK comedian and writer Andy Hamilton announces handwritten novel — Tom Clayton
Lost poems of Daphne du Maurier found in a photo frame — Ryan Harrington

Yet more evidence that Amazon is hosing small businesses with proprietary ranking algorithms

Simon Reichley

Amazon continues its horrible, lurching incursion into the land of bricks and mortar, having already laid terrible waste to the digital realm. And now, the good folks at Propublica have… Read more »

The Black Lives Matter Syllabus

Ian Dreiblatt

“I’m going to show you. I’m going to make you all proud.” Those are the words Terence Crutcher texted his twin sister Tiffany a few weeks ago about his recent enrollment at a… Read more »

The Art of the Novella Challenge 51: The Nice Old Man and the Pretty Girl

Jonathan Gibbs

Title: The Nice Old Man and the Pretty Girl Author: Italo Svevo First published: 1926 (in translation 1929) Page count: 92 First line: There was a prelude to the adventure… Read more »

Melville House Books

Syrian intellectuals see common goal in U.S. and Russian policy in their country

Kait Howard