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 »

Hi there. President-elect Donald J. Trump, fresh off a long night trying to come up with some good tweets for his haters following the controversial publication of the BuzzFeed Dossier,… Read more »

Melania Trump’s plagiarism of Michelle Obama was relegated to an even lower level of embarrassing-but-not-exactly-the-worst failings of the Trump political machine this past weekend. On Saturday, CNN’s K-File team reported… Read more »

How valid is the work of high profile journalists, sometimes so-called “thought leaders”, taking large checks to inspire executives at Johnson & Johnson? David V. Johnson in the Boston Review… Read more »

There was a depressing article in the New York Times over the weekend about the rate at which novelists are expected to churn out books these days: two a year… 1 / Read more »