Founder of NYC radical bookstore Bluestockings re-ups in sunny San Francisco, with Black Bird Bookstore
If you’ve ever been to Bluestockings Bookstore, Activist Center, and Fair Trade Café on Manhattan’s Lower East Side, you would probably agree that “minimalist” is not a particularly apt descriptor of the… Read more »
How my publishing job was made totally super-obsolete with a little help from Leslie Norins, MD, PhD
Folks, the jig is up. After decades of market research, untold hours fiddling with Photoshop, trackless weeks spent optimizing and promoting and cross-marketing and emailing and reading and burning sacrificial… Read more »
Police in Benghazi burned thousands of books, because ISIL
Earlier this week, Al Jazeera reported that police forces in Benghazi, Libya had collected and burned several thousand books, which, police claimed, promoted violence and propagated the ideas of the Muslim Brotherhood… Read more »
Turkish crackdown continues, with two magazine editors jailed for perceived insults
The situation in Turkey continues to deteriorate. In the last few weeks, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s authoritarian regime has sentenced a Minister of Parliament to twenty-five years in prison for divulging “state… Read more »
Israeli Minister of Culture stomps out of awards ceremony like a big freaking baby
During a recent awards ceremony for Israel’s Association of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ACUM)—which is something like that nation’s version of ASCAP—Arab Israeli singer Mira Awad, the recipient of an award for “promoting Arab creativity… Read more »
In Turkey, a suspected terrorist continues to operate a bookstore, as hundreds of journalists, authors, and publishers are rounded up
Since the failed coup against him in September 2016, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has taken dramatic measures to consolidate his power: hunting down members of the opposition, calling for changes to… Read more »
Jacob Blumenfeld defends Communism for Kids
Over the weekend, the New York Times ran a moving op-ed from Jacob Blumenfeld, one of the English translators of Bini Adamczak’s Communism for Kids. In it, Blumenfeld defends the book against… Read more »
Laura Kipnis is getting sued over the publication of her new book on campus sexual misconduct
Media critic and academic Laura Kipnis has a new book out, titled Unwanted Advances: Sexual Paranoia Comes to Campus. It continues an investigation into the bureaucratic and cultural transformation of campus sexual politics… Read more »
Just one more thing about Ivanka Trump’s dumb book, we promise
We have (improbably) written several times about Ivanka Trump’s Women Who Work. It is, by all accounts, a bad book, written by a bad person, whose family is destroying the country.… Read more »
Turkish police confiscate 2,170 books from Belge Publishing House
This past Saturday, Turkish authorities launched a nighttime raid on the offices of Belge Yayinlari in Istanbul. According to a report in the Armenian Mirror-Spectator and other outlets, officers confiscated more than 2,000… Read more »