Renowned writer, chef, and TV personality Anthony Bourdain has died at sixty-one. According to a report from The New York Times, Bourdain, who had been working on an episode of… Read more »

As we’ve discussed on MobyLives before, it is hard to measure the success of translated books in English-speaking countries. Despite endless opinionating and a recent Man Booker study that looked at sales of… Read more »

Unlike magazine articles, books are not routinely fact-checked, and when they are, it’s usually at the initiative (and expense) of the author himself. Copyeditors check basic facts—names, dates, places, matters… Read more »