Five great long reads by our authors in 2018
One of the great thing about our writers is being able to follow their activities beyond the book. We’re always curious to see where their journalistic noses have sniffing out and we… Read more »
The New York Times attributes a rise in digital subscriptions to Trump
Admit it: you’ve probably found the New York Times’ homepage ads declaring that “the truth is more important now than ever” disconcerting, right? Not disconcerting enough to make you unsubscribe,… Read more »
French Booksellers Association releases reading list meant to shed light on Paris attacks
Following the attacks in Paris on November 13, the French Booksellers Association (Syndicat de la Librairie Française, or SLF) has released a reading list designed to help people better understand the complex… Read more »
Two for Tuesday: This column is embargoed until today
Topics discussed: last week’s column, next week’s column, the week after next week’s column, infinite recursiveness, Harper Lee, Go Set a Watchman, Gawker, book reviews, embargoes, Marco Rubio, Donald Trump,… Read more »
Two for Tuesday: Reviews! What Are They Good For? (Absolutely Nothing?) (Or Absolutely Everything?) (Or Something In Between?) Huh!
Topics discussed: Gene Simmons (again), this column’s terrible name (again), Salman Rushdie, Jonah Berger, Rick Moody, Goodreads, Amazon, Netflix, Barnes & Noble, the New York Review of Books, n+1, The… Read more »
n+1 celebrates, anthologizes tenth anniversary
The Partisan Review survived for nearly seven decades, and last year, the New York Review of Books turned fifty. But these numbers deceive. For most literary magazines (except for the… Read more »
Leon Wieseltier, Washington National
Leon Wieseltier, the literary editor of The New Republic, once wrote that “the most disturbing quality about [Bill] Clinton” was “his indifference to contradiction.” In the same essay, Wieseltier called… Read more »
2014: the year of reading women?
Sometime last year, I pinned a sheet of paper above my desk with the title “Women Writers” and began forming a list of names of female writers that I had… Read more »
Hundreds of writers and scholars rally to save the NYPL
More than 750 writers, scholars, and librarians have signed a public letter asking New York Public Library president Anthony Marx to reconsider a $350 million plan to radically transform its… Read more »
SLIDESHOW: Best literary curios on Tumblr
Earlier this month Nick Moran at The Millions posted a great guide to the best literary Tumblrs. We’ve been enjoying them ever since and highly recommend it as high-minded time-killer.… Read more »