After Las Vegas, two newspapers apologize for a controversial cartoon
Following the terrible violence at the Mandalay Bay on Sunday night, the Bennington Banner of Bennington, Vermont and the Telegraph Herald of Dubuque, Iowa have issued apologies for running a cartoon by Randall Enos.… Read more »
Little, Brown to publish memoir of Charlie Hebdo editor finished two days before his murder
It’s been nearly a year since the attack on French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo, an attack that left 12 people dead after Islamic extremists opened fire during an editorial meeting at… Read more »
Three for Tuesday: An Interview with Tim Parks
Topics discussed: mozzarella sticks, Nick During, incompetence, silliness, fear, Martin Amis, Facebook comments, George Orwell, the New York Review of Books, Charlie Hebdo, Henry Green, the Nobel Prize, John Banville, Tomas Tranströmer, Karl Ove… Read more »
The French are buying a lot of books about Islam these days
It shouldn’t, but it does, come with a depressing regularity; a society suffers a terrorist attack, and with that terror comes a new enemy, to know, to form opinions on,… Read more »
Did OUP ban references to pork products in its textbooks? Not really, but here are some references Melville House is banning
Here we are only a few weeks into 2015, and yet we’ve encountered enough stories of publishers unwilling to offend their potential audiences to last us through the end of… Read more »
ABA calls for support of #JeSuisCharlie
In the week since the killings at Charlie Hebdo in Paris, the phrase “Je suis Charlie” (“I am Charlie”) has become a rallying cry for free speech. CNN Money reported… Read more »