I, for one, welcome our New Apple Book overlords
iBooks: great for pounding down digital manuscript submissions, binge-sampling published books, and helping to obliterate the printed word. iBooks might lack for personality and features, but hey, it’s still better than reading… Read more »
The people to know in Paul Manafort’s orbit
Out of all the people to have been indicted in Robert Mueller’s collusion probe, Paul Manafort could have his own spin-off in the Trump / Russia saga. Manafort plays such a big… Read more »
A Who’s Who of Russians at the Trump Tower meeting
Yesterday, it was widely reported that Donald Trump knew more than he had at first let on about a 2016 meeting at Trump Tower. As we explained last week, the meeting, which… Read more »
Understanding the Magnitsky Act, the Dark Matter of Trump / Russia
If you know even a bit of Trump / Russia 101, or if you’ve read award-winning AP reporter Seth Hettena’s book on the subject, you will recall how Donald, Jr. met… Read more »
Olga Tokarczuk wins this year’s Man Booker International Prize
Tuesday night, the much-anticipated announcement of this year’s Man Booker International Prize winner was made at London’s Victoria and Albert Museum. The winner? Polish novelist Olga Tokarczuk, for her novel Flights, translated with dazzling finesse… Read more »
Q: Is this the end of Interview? A: Looks like it…
The art of the Q&A has been struck a blow by the announcement that Interview, the magazine known for pairing conversations between celebrities and icons with high-minded portrait photography, is folding.… Read more »
Remembering Tom Wolfe by some of his best lines (and attire)
The literary world has been piling up the panegyrics all week for Tom Wolfe, the fire-crackling prose writer and purveyor of New Journalism who died on Monday at the age of eighty-eight. Picking up… Read more »
Can a film be a book? Jean-Luc Godard thinks so.
At some point in a person’s life, if their achievements have distinguished them among the billions of people on the planet, if their contributions to our civilization will merit study and… Read more »
As US-Iranian relations worsen, Tehran’s book festival might be getting better
Yesterday, Donald Trump pulled out of what was considered to be Obama’s signature foreign policy deal — an agreement with Iran to lift sanctions in exchange for nuclear accountability. In return,… Read more »
Ian McEwan reveals a rather absurd incident that only an author of his stature could experience
Are you really the foremost authority on a book you write? That’s the question bubbling up after a bemusing, if slightly awkward, interview with renowned author Ian McEwan. In an interview… Read more »