What’s better than discounted books? Discounted discounted books.
If you’re reading this in a Target parking lot at three a.m. — head home immediately. There’s an easier way to do this. Because you should at home right now, alphabetizing… Read more »
Spend Thanksgiving buying books on your computer!
As the great Donald Barthelme wrote, many gray Novembers ago: At last, it is time to speak the truth about Thanksgiving. The truth is this: it is not a really… Read more »
“These truths may be self-evident, but they are not self-replicating.”
Many Americans have said many things about the current moment in American politics. Few have said anything as eloquent, or as urgent, as a statement that veteran newsman Dan Rather published on… Read more »
Celebrate Lebanese Independence Day with Ameen Rihani
Today marks the seventy-third anniversary of Lebanon’s independence, which makes it, in turn, a great day to remember Ameen Rihani, the Lebanese-born godfather of Arab-American letters. Rihani was a Christian who spent his life between… Read more »
Slavoj Žižek and Hari Kunzru talk Trump and refugees at the Brooklyn Public Library
I’m simply a pessimist. [Coordinated European state action in favor of refugees] will not happen, which means, maybe, that it’s the end of Europe the way we know it. The only… Read more »
On sale today: These are the Names by Tommy Wieringa
In These Are the Names, on sale today, Dutch superstar Tommy Wieringa weaves together two narratives — a saga of refugees clinging to life as they trudge across Eurasia, and the tale of Pontus Beg, a cop on… Read more »
T minus one day: A good time to watch Aldous Huxley predict the future in 1958
You write in Enemies of Freedom specifically about the United States. You say this, writing about American political campaigns: “All that is needed is money and a candidate who can be coached… Read more »
Remembering Anna Politkovskaya
Next week marks the tenth anniversary of the assassination of Russian journalist (and, posthumously, Melville House author) Anna Politkovskaya. Politkovskaya was a courageous and excellent journalist, among the most prominent critics… Read more »
Sweet Lou
Because Mondays are hard, because fall is taking its time, and because you deserve some awesomeness, you should probably clear the next two and a half hours or so and watch… Read more »
Land of the unfair-ohs: Happy birthday, Ahmed Naji
In recent months, we’ve been following the story of Ahmed Naji, a young novelist currently serving a two-year jail sentence in Egypt. His bloodcurdling crime? Publishing an excerpt from his novel The Use… Read more »