To paraphrase that old joke (badly), take my Fifty Shades, please. If you’re getting ready for your big spring clean, charity shops in the UK will take your gently worn… Read more »

No publishing phenomenon—or really any phenomenon—can escape the tinge of litigation. Controversy can move pretty slowly, though. It’ll probably be years before coloring book guru Johanna Basford gets sued for… Read more »

When the news broke that Penguin Random House would be publishing Grey by E.L. James, a sequel/retelling/reboot/deboot? of the Fifty Shades trilogy written from Christian Grey’s POV, it was met by surprise, then massive… Read more »

Topics discussed: Thomas Pynchon, our Thomas Pynchon petition, the huge success of our Thomas Pynchon petition, liking books, loving books, #amreading, the We Love Books Party, the Constitution Party, arsenic,… Read more »

A sociology professor in Jerusalem has produced the first-ever academic study of Fifty Shades of Grey, and revealed that the book isn’t just a smutty freak bestseller, but actually a… Read more »

It looks like the movie version of Fifty Shades of Grey is going to be less Skinemax, more Lifetime. According to reports from CinemaCon, where Universal Studios screened the first… Read more »

On-demand services have not only changed the way we watch television shows, they’ve affected our expectations of all media. Instant gratification and binge-watching have affected the consumer model, and the… Read more »

When critic and writer Suzanne Rivecca wrote an essay for the Rumpus a couple of weeks ago about the way male critics tend to write about Mary Gaitskill’s work —which… Read more »

Never one to mince his words, former Oasis guitarist Noel Gallagher was recently named British GQ’s icon of the year, and during an interview celebrating his new title, he took… Read more »

Fifty Shades of Grey. Just when we thought no more bad stuff could come out of this book: first the monstrous book sales, then the media frenzy, then the film… Read more »