Books, as anyone in publishing will tell you, are like little fragmentation grenades made out of ideas. They explode—bang!—and just like that there are new ideas everywhere, embedded in the puckered… Read more »

First, let’s congratulate the winners of this year’s Pulitzer Prize in letters, drama, and music: Viet Than Nyugen (Fiction), Lin-Manuel Miranda (Drama), T.J. Stiles (History), William Finnegan (Biography or Autobiography), Peter… Read more »