Fred Bass, owner of the Strand, has passed away at eighty-nine
With sadness, we report that Fred Bass, the man behind the beloved Strand bookstore, passed away last Wednesday at the age of eighty-nine. In a New York Times obituary, William Grimes lays out… Read more »
In Alabama, a daily newspaper has its #MeToo reckoning, forty years late
The #metoo movement has, since its inception, been a mixed bag, emotionally: the relief that, finally, this sort of behavior is receiving a social shaming long past due, combined with the… Read more »
The first film written in San Andres-Providencia Creole is here
You’d be forgiven for missing some of the end-of-year highlights in international film as 2017 came to a close. You did, after all, have other stuff going on. But let’s take a look… Read more »
China’s Xi Jinping is a president who reads books
If it wasn’t clear already, Donald Trump is not a reader. We’ve written about this here and here — suffice it to say that between sexually harassing a bigly number of women, surviving scalp surgery, and enduring… Read more »
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Ada’s Algorithm
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How to Do Nothing
Ray Bradbury: The Last Interview
Encyclical on Climate Change and Inequality
Cat Out of Hell
The Damned Utd
The Ghost Network
Philip K. Dick: The Last Interview
The Duke’s Table
The Day the Renaissance Was Saved
Contraband Cocktails
A History of Money
How to Keep Your Volkswagen Alive
Bolaño
Rules for Werewolves
The Dunwich Horror
The Buenos Aires Quintet
Spurious, Dogma, & Exodus
Trainwreck
Red or Dead
Why I Am Not a Feminist
Bartleby Mug
Future Days
The U.S. Supreme Court Decision on Marriage Equality (Gift Edition)
The North of God
Bartleby the Scrivener
Patience and Fortitude
The Senate Intelligence Committee Report on Torture
The Dark Net
Melancholy Accidents
The Dog Walker
Gabriel Garcia Marquez: The Last Interview
The Philosophy of Beards
The Utopia of Rules
The Next Next Level
The Essential Heinrich Böll
The Constitution Demands It
Billy Budd, Sailor
The Biographical Dictionary of Literary Failure
An Exaggerated Murder
The Quest for a Moral Compass
What We Do Now
We, Robots
The Establishment
Not on Fire, But Burning
Happiness
“I Would Prefer Not To” Bartleby Tote Bag
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Nora Ephron: The Last Interview
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Wittgenstein Jr
La Femme de Gilles
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Half The Kingdom
