According to two researchers, self-help only helps The Man
Go to any party today and it won’t take long for revelers to start chalking every lamentable injustice in their lives up to the inherent evils of capitalism (which, fair). And while… Read more »
The New Yorker editorial staff unionizes because, well, prestige don’t pay the rent
Yesterday morning, the editorial staff of the New Yorker officially joined their peers at a growing list of major publications—The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, and The Chicago Tribune,… Read more »
Bob Dylan’s Nobel Lecture is better than we deserve
By now you’re presumably aware of the Swedish Academy’s brilliant decision last October to award noted non-potato-chip Bob Dylan the Nobel Prize in Literature. To paraphrase a great thinker: Yes, y’all. Yes. After the dizzying… Read more »
NBCC finalists announced
The National Book Critics’ Circle finalists for 2013 were announced yesterday. There are five finalists in each of the six categories, plus three winners who have already been announced. The… Read more »