Ehud Olmert has seen better days. The George W. Bush-painted former Prime Minister of Israel (he served the office from 2006 to 2009) is currently serving out a prison sentence for… Read more »

Melville House has announced it is giving away free ebooks of its edition of the Senate Intelligence Committee Report on Torture after reports that the Republican head of the Senate… 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 »

Leonard Cohen, yet another casualty of 2016, on his prescient and excellent 1992 album The Future, sings, “There is a crack in everything / That’s how the light gets in.” Well, twenty-four… Read more »

As hundreds of thousands, if not millions, descend on Washington, DC, to protest at Donald Trump’s inauguration, members of the book industry will be out in full force. Yesterday, Shelf… Read more »

A man stands in a shower, his reflection in a shaving mirror meek-eyed. He skulks just outside the path of the falling water, as if to say, I am still soiled, I must remain… Read more »

Further evidence has surfaced that President Barack Obama really just wants to break into the publishing business. We’ve already written about how he’ll be guest editing the November issue of… Read more »

  What Robin Kelley says in “Why We Won’t Wait” seems to me to be absolutely true, and so true—and sometimes so obscure—that it needs to be repeated again and… Read more »

Last week, we wrote about a petition, at the time signed by 450 American authors, denouncing Donald Trump. In their “Open Letter to Fellow Americans,” the signatories, including notable authors like… Read more »

The story of psychologists James Mitchell and Bruce Jessen was surely one of the most shocking revelations to emerge from the publication the Senate Intelligence Committee Report on Torture. Known… Read more »