After much panic, good news: the Trump administration’s newest round of tariffs on EU goods will not include books. Publishers Weekly reports that the confusion was born from a line… Read more »

For CNN, Erica Orden reports on the latest Michael Avenatti fiasco: a New York grand jury indicted the famous attorney with fraud and aggravated identity theft involving Stormy Daniels, his former… Read more »

In all kinds of blog posts past, we’ve seen the line between author and politician (and politician-adjacent) blurred. Now, a best-selling author—who also has the ear of Oprah on spiritual… Read more »

We cannot pretend that the nearly 100-year-old institution of the White House Correspondents’ Dinner is a radical event. It’s a lighthearted affair in which the President hosts a meal with all of the… Read more »

It seems the saga of Gawker as we know it is finally coming to a close: CNN’s Tom Kludt and Oliver Darcy reported Thursday afternoon that Bleacher Report co-founder Bryan Goldberg has purchased the… Read more »

As much as we’d like to believe technology can anticipate and cater to our needs, there’s still a long way to go — particularly when you’re sifting through worthless related content… Read more »

We in the book business have long since struck an uneasy peace with the breathless and lofty language of the sales pitch. We edit world-class literary prose all day, then we leap into the purple,… Read more »

The morning after the 2016 election, the story goes, former presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton checked her email. She discovered there a note, a touching devotion, from her spiritual adviser, the… Read more »

The daughters and sons of world leaders are just like daughters and sons everywhere: they want to find a bit of trouble, raise a little hell. Mostly they want to do… Read more »

One positive aspect of the fallout from the election, if there can be said to be any, is that the liberal media that was so sure of a Clinton victory seems… Read more »