Remember Preet Bharara? You do, but just so you have all the facts in front of you: Bharara was a US Attorney for the Southern District of New York, whom Donald Trump promised,… Read more »

The Clintons really aren’t going anywhere. In an interview with CNN’s Christiane Amanpour at a Women for Women International event last week, Hillary Clinton announced that she is “back to… Read more »

Earlier this week, legendary children’s author and ace fighter pilot Roald Dahl would have celebrated his 100th birthday, had he been alive. Of course, even if he was still kicking… Read more »

You, Reader, are a regular bookstore-goer. You are wont to traipse into strange rooms and begin caressing books you don’t yet own. You flip through physical pages, read some words… Read more »

A recent study conducted by Slate confirms that trade history books—those intended for a general audience, not a solely academic one—are (big surprise) mostly written by men. Of the study,… Read more »

What’s the central threat to the domestic publishing industry? Is it overproduction? Is it Google Books? Is it the United States government’s consistent willingness to define consumer interest in a… Read more »

Now in its second year of being open to authors of any nationality, as long as they’ve published in the UK, this year’s Man Booker Prize longlist is headlined by… Read more »

Last week, we reported on a somewhat confounding marketing idea by Hachette Australia. The company is publishing the fourth book in Stieg Larsson’s Millennium Series, The Girl in the Spider’s… Read more »

Topics discussed: advice, Nick During, New York Review Books, Linda Rosenkrantz, Anna Wiener, ARCs, galleys, hyperbole, Twitter backlash, #JadeHelm15, limited edition boxset superproofs, City on Fire, Garth Risk Hallberg, Jonathan… Read more »

The book designer Paul Bacon died last week in Fishkill, NY. He was ninety-one years old. Though Bacon illustrated a number of beautiful jazz album covers, he was better known… Read more »