Among the many vexing questions to arise in the wake of #MeToo: is there a place in the classroom for books written by men who have been accused of sexual… Read more »

Annually in the UK, the Collins English Dictionary, published by HarperCollins, pick their ‘word of the year’. They have been producing dictionaries since 1819 and currently maintain a database of… Read more »

“I was hungry for a woman’s voice, for a story that resembled my own life, for pages that read like the inside of my mind.”… Read more »

In April of this year, the Swedish Academy, which determines the recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, was thrown into utter disarry, when Jean-Claude Arnault, husband of Academy member… Read more »

The East Bay Express: Where #MeToo met up with #WhiteLivesMatter. Welcome to the sad, sad story of Stephen Buel, erstwhile publisher of the Express, an Oakland-based weekly newspaper specializing in investigative journalism… Read more »

Since 2009, VIDA: Women in Literary Arts has been compiling data on the representation of women in literary publications and book reviews. Since 2016, they have also been tracking various… Read more »

The unequivocally great thing about 2017’s horrible Tax Cuts and Jobs Act is how it makes billionaires really fucking rich and the rest of us actually literally dead. But good news!… Read more »

Renowned writer, chef, and TV personality Anthony Bourdain has died at sixty-one. According to a report from The New York Times, Bourdain, who had been working on an episode of… Read more »

Earlier this week, we wrote that in the wake of #MeToo, some book publishers are pushing to include “morality clauses” in their agreements with authors — the idea being that… Read more »

For Publishers Weekly, Rachel Deahl reports that book publishers are pressing for “morality clauses” to be included in deals with new authors. In the most immediate sense, this is a… Read more »