If you’re wondering why we haven’t exactly reported on one of the biggest publishing stories of the year–the nuclear blast to the publishing landscape that is Barack Obama’s A Promised… Read more »

Hi diddly ho, neighborino! Verso Books—our close neighbors in proximity and in a more spiritual dedication to The Cause—is coming out with a new line of fiction. As Calvin Reid reports… Read more »

In case you weren’t following along for the National Book Awards, here’s the skinny on the winners:  2018 Winner of Fiction: The Friend by Sigrid Nunez 2018 Winner of Nonfiction:… Read more »

I’m not going to lie, I rather like National Book Award season. The slow unveiling of long and short lists—the latter revealed this morning by the NBA’s president Lisa Lucas… Read more »

Award season is upon us! Last month, the National Book Foundation kept us on our toes as they meted out their National Book Award Longlist for all categories throughout one week at New Yorker, and… Read more »

You may have noticed that the National Book Foundation has launched a new annual award for best work of translated fiction or non-fiction. It’s welcome recognition for an area of publishing that’s exploded… Read more »

The National Book Awards ceremony is one of the biggest events of the year for the book publishing industry, and the National Book Foundation has just announced that Cynthia Nixon… Read more »

While the larger literary world is (very) slowly acknowledging the inherently diverse population of its readers, those who write and promote comics and graphic novels are working tirelessly at incorporating the… Read more »

Kazuo Ishiguro ruffled some feathers recently when he told Alexandra Alter, in an interview for The New York Times, that he was worried his readers would perceive his newest book, The… Read more »

Built in 1841, the large, Greek Revival building at 55 Wall Street has housed the New York Merchants Exchange, the United States Custom House, and the National City Bank—the earlier,… Read more »