Trump has dramatically lost favor in the wake of his mishandling COVID-19 testing and Black Lives Matter protests, but now even his family is intent on lifting the veil and… Read more »

The divisions and dissension that have rocked the publishing world over the last two weeks have spread even unto the normally staid world of book reviewers. When a dispute over… Read more »

So begins a petition addressed to the editors of the august Oxford Dictionary of English. (Side note: a little-known law stipulates that the adjective “august” must precede every written reference… Read more »

If you were even remotely tapped into the American publishing industry in 2019 you likely heard about Jeanine Cummins’s novel American Dirt. Positioned by publisher Flatiron Books as the book… Read more »

Remember when time travel was just a really cool idea in science fiction where your biggest concern was either correcting a dystopian future or not hooking up with your mom?… Read more »

Last week we posted our admittedly somewhat jaded reactions to the news that the anonymous author of the much-discussed anti-Trump op-ed in the New York Times has written a book.… Read more »

Back in May, Virago published Naomi Wolf’s new book Outrages: Sex, Censorship, and the Criminalization of Love in the UK. Best known for her acclaimed feminist title The Beauty Myth, her… Read more »

Ain’t no way Mike Lindgren is not going to kick off his first-ever Moby with a Spinal Tap reference … especially when some UK protestors have noticed that the august… Read more »

Last Monday, the 2015 Press Awards shortlist was announced. The prestigious award aims to celebrate ‘the best of UK national journalism’ and the numerous categories mean there’s room for every… Read more »

An author’s fascinating or salacious backstory can be key to a book’s allure (and marketing campaign). But the taste of the reading public isn’t infinitely flexible, and this is nowhere… Read more »