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Brooklyn, September 2, 2020 — We are sad to announce the passing of our author David Graeber. He was 59 years old, and died yesterday in a hospital in Venice,… Read more »

On Monday the New York Times published one of their intermittent “what’s going on in publishing” articles, this one titled “Trump Books Keep Coming, and Readers Can’t Stop Buying.” Times… Read more »

How did America end up with a leader who acts so crudely and despotically, and counter to our democratic principles? Why do his followers stick with him, even when he… Read more »

Originally published by Pacific Standard, March 9, 2017, this piece from Malcolm Harris’s Shit is Fucked up and Bullshit asks what tactics anti-Trump movements might use to be meaningfully anti-Trump, and what we can… Read more »

The UK has taken to the polls in the third general election in five years—the first December election for almost a century. At the moment of writing, latest opinion poll… Read more »

My debut novel, The Revisionaries, will be released on December 3. A little secret, now: It wasn’t supposed to get published—according to me. Before I started, I told myself that… Read more »

Interviews, never-before-seen photographs, rare essays by the author… Read more »

Happy happy birthday to Herman Melville! 200 years! Wowza. For readers that are New Yorkers, Poets.org put together this really impressive self-guided Herman Melville super fan walking tour that would… Read more »

This past Sunday, the Guardian featured a piece by Rachel Cooke on fellow journalist Sanam Maher and her book A Woman Like Her: The Short Life of Qandeel Baloch, which is out… Read more »

Full disclosure: This interview did not go as planned. I envisioned it as a cordial, informative conversation with one of the Christopher Bouchers who appear in the new mockmuster novel… Read more »