February 14, 2017

Since November 2015, we’ve been covering the story of a wave of arrests by authorities in the People’s Republic of China of publishers and booksellers associated with Causeway Bay Books, a publishing house and… Read more »

Causeway Bay booksellers

China’s embassy in Stockholm has been harrassing those who speak in defense of Gui Minhai, the Swedish publisher illegally detained in China — Ian Dreiblatt
The EU is signaling that it will continue to pressure China for the release of Gui Minhai and Liu Xia — Ian Dreiblatt
Gui Minhai, his whereabouts unknown, wins the Prix Voltaire as the international clamor on his behalf grows louder — Ian Dreiblatt
An award-winning Swedish publisher is disappeared in China... again — Ian Dreiblatt

“I” before “E” except after a really dumb tweet

Susan Rella

Just about everyone has experienced that scary feeling of being the new kid on the block — especially midway into the school year. It’s the worst! Which is why we… Read more »

These Viennese teens will crush Amazon using their moxie and bicycles

Chad Felix

Look, as a grumpy late-twenty-something, I don’t really like teenagers very much. They really like tablets. Their shoes are cool and make me insecure about my shoes. Their muscles and… Read more »

“I knew that this would someday be a funny story”

Taylor Sperry

Because it’s Valentine’s Day and also the seventy-third birthday of Carl Bernstein, Watergate reporter, Hillary Clinton ghost writer, and CNN commentator, why not reprint some of his ex-wife Nora Ephron’s last interview, discussing their… Read more »

Melville House Books

China continues its crackdown on publishers of political gossip with two new arrests

Ian Dreiblatt