We were both startled and delighted to read in the Wall Street Journal, natch, that our nation’s long-suffering right-wing scribes have finally found people brave enough to bear the withering… Read more »

Words are our business over here on (digital) John Street! and that means, by extension, typography is also our business! As scholars of the intersection of the digital and the… Read more »

It has been a tough couple of years for a number of cultural institutions, many of which are struggling, like brontosauri in a tar pit, to adopt to the new… Read more »

Famed postmodernist artist Jenny Holzer is releasing a mobile app on Monday that will allow quotes from selected Great Books to be projected, Holzer-style, onto nearby surfaces. The project—or whatever… Read more »

On Monday the New York Times published one of their intermittent “what’s going on in publishing” articles, this one titled “Trump Books Keep Coming, and Readers Can’t Stop Buying.” Times… Read more »

On June 19, 2020—better known, this year, as Juneteenth—the Associated Press formally ruled that the word “Black,” when used in “a racial, ethnic or cultural sense,” must be capitalized. In… Read more »

The myriad ways the novel coronavirus is upending daily life includes the shuttering of public libraries across the United States. Led by the Library of Congress, thousands of libraries have… Read more »

It’s tax season, everyone! And in a radio address in which he proposed a tax overhaul plan, Maine Governor Paul LePage suggested that “famous residents [are] leaving the state because… Read more »

Continuing our series of interviews with independent booksellers, in celebration of Independent Booksellers Week, today we interview Nik Górecki from Housmans bookshop. Housmans is London’s oldest radical bookshop and the… Read more »

Zadie Smith and other prominent female writers have reacted against an article published by The Atlantic entitled: ‘The Secret to Being Both a Successful Writer and a Mother: Have Just… Read more »