Give it up for… giving up on books
Giving up. It’s a concept that, in these days of workplaces that joyfully claim to be “always at 150%!!!”, self-actualising business bores, multiple Iron Man marathon runners, and streaming services… Read more »
On never having to quit publishing
It has been a great year to be a dead author. Deceased thriller writers Steig Larsson, Robert B. Parker, Tom Clancy, and Ian Fleming all have new books out. The… Read more »
Yinka Shonibare’s beautiful batik library
A new installation by the British artist Yinka Shonibare celebrates the cultural contributions of immigrants through a medium we can never get enough of: brightly-colored books. Installed in the library… Read more »
What Maisie Knew screenwriter sued for libel in fiction
Henry James’s novel What Maisie Knew, about a young girl shuttled between her divorced and dysfunctional parents, was published more than a century ago, in 1897. But, Eriq Gardner writes… Read more »
Somewhere in France, the Anglomaniacs meet the Germans: Nina Katchadourian’s Sorted Books Project
Nina Katchadourian is an artist who photographs the covers or spines of certain books next to each other, so that the titles form a connected series. Such as: Katchadourian has… Read more »
Why don’t serious novelists write about finance?
Writing in the Financial Times, John Lanchester—the author of the novel Capital—asks why it is that so few novelists and poets tackle banking and finance: You can assemble an entire… 10 / Read more »
Melville House celebrates Henry James novellas
TODAY ONLY: Buy The Lesson of the Master or The Coxon Fund for just $5 each. Henry James died on this day in 1916, at the age of 72. He left… Read more »