November 30, 2016

As the lawsuit against him moves forward, an architect of America’s torture program releases a book defending his role

Julia Fleischaker

Back in May, we reported on a book by James Mitchell, a psychologist and former CIA contractor who has been named in a lawsuit brought by two former CIA black-site… Read more »

Government

Greta Thunberg named TIME person of the year; jointly scoops Waterstones book of the year — Tom Clayton
The votes are in: Melville House's books are here to help explain the UK's political mess — Nikki Griffiths
This week in fraud: fake children’s books used to boost campaign finances — Athena Bryan
Anonymous anti-Trump author censured: Hachette holds hard line — Mike Lindgren

PEN America declaims new professor “watchlist”

PEN America moved quickly to declaim a new website listing college professors across the country who purportedly “discriminate against conservative students and advance leftist propaganda in the classroom.” Launched on November 21 by… Read more »

Call a fig a fig: AP releases press standards for reporting on the so-called alt-right

Simon Reichley

We here at MobyLives make a living off the assumption that words, and the ways you use them, matter. For example, it matters that the president-elect is incapable of completing a… Read more »

Protest sets millions of dollars worth of punk rock history ablaze

Ryan Harrington

“Punk has become another marketing tool to sell you something you don’t need.” It’s a line that could come straight from Nato Thompson’s forthcoming Melville House book Culture as Weapon. But most recently… Read more »

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