Getting to know people who know what we do now: Allan J. Lichtman, John R. MacArthur, Bill McKibben
As you might have heard, in time for Inauguration Day we’re putting out What We Do Now, a collection of short, powerful essays on what we can do now to cope with Trump’s election, and how, moving… Read more »
The New Yorker sheds new light on Senator Dianne Feinstein’s struggle to release the torture report—and the Obama Administration’s resistance to it
It’s been six months since the release of the executive summary of the Senate Intelligence Committee’s report on torture (and Melville House’s publication of the report in book form), yet… Read more »
Boring headlines on the internet are bad. Unlike boring book titles, which are good.
There are only so many ways to title an article, an essay, or a blog post, and most of those ways are very boring. Indeed, in 2015, titles are more… Read more »
What is the state of contemporary poetry?
Harriet reports on a series of essays and reactions to the question of what some call “the state of American poetry.” The present conversation began with Mark Edmunson’s “Poetry Slam:… Read more »
When will big publishers speak out about Amazon?
Barnes & Noble’s dramatic statement on Tuesday that, no matter what, it wouldn’t, under any circumstances, including beards, sell books published by Amazon, ever, come hell or high water — eh,… 13 / Read more »