Books about Han Solo and Lando Calrissian are assuredly (maybe?) better than a movie
There’s a Han Solo movie coming. Like all things Star Wars, this announcement comes with excitement at the possibility of exploring a new quadrant of the galaxy… and the stomach-acidifying fear of… Read more »
James Comey takes the Stormy world by book… er… book world by storm
Jesus H.L. Menckeny Christ Newsballs! There’s a lot going on. From scumbag supreme Michael Cohen lawyering for Sean Hannity to Stormy Daniels’s sketch of her assailant being tweeted out by… Read more »
Four teenagers stole rare books from a university library in 2004, and now their heist is being made into a movie
I wouldn’t know personally, but smoking weed sometimes gives people great bad ideas. In the case of four college freshmen in Kentucky, the idea was to steal upwards of $11 million… Read more »
One Tolkien over the line… and other puns to celebrate the publication of more stories from Middle Earth
Trench fever: It’s a pretty serious infection that’s spread by body lice. Symptoms include a fever that lasts five days and pain in the legs. Recovery can take months, and sometimes leaves lifelong… Read more »
Apple makes it even easier to make e-books that no one buys or reads
It’s become a staple of modern journalism to report on the marketing presentations of major tech companies. Apple, of course, invented these spectacles with Steve Jobs standing on a dark,… Read more »
Hail, the absolutely unbiased and totally reasonable magazine devoted to the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, Mohammed bin Salman
Propaganda is common in America. It’s as expected as neverending breadsticks at the Olive Garden, and equally gross. But overt propaganda from another country is more unusual, at least in modern… Read more »
Dear Evan Hansen becomes a YA book, since books are very good at soaking up tears
Dear Evan Hansen is the musical theater phenomenon that researchers are using to test the capacity of human tear ducts. It’s about a depressed teenager who writes himself uplifting notes—“Dear Evan… Read more »
Left Bank Books partners with Archon to bring St. Louis even more amazing sci-fi events
As big book chains keep going under, indie bookstores everywhere are returning to their rightful place of glory. Some might even say that they are returning to their leadership role in… Read more »
A gift of James Joyce manuscripts means everyday at the Morgan Library will be Bloomsday! (But really, it’s still just June 16)
According to Richard Ellmann’s biography of modernist master (and Melville House author) James Joyce, Ulysses takes place on June 16th to honor Joyce’s wife, Nora. It was the day they met. Considering the hodgepodge… Read more »
What the Senate Intelligence Committee Report on CIA Torture teaches us about soon-to-be CIA Director Gina Haspel
You’ve seen the news: CIA Director Mike Pompeo will be sliding over to serve as Secretary of State, and his deputy Gina Haspel will take the reins at the Agency. This is… Read more »