Drop That William F. Buckley Seminar and Take a Class From A Hot Professor
The left and right wings of our political system are engaged in all-out war with one another. As we know, it’s a war fought on many fronts, and you can’t swing a… Read more »
And Elena Ferrante would have gotten away with greatness if it weren’t for you meddling kids
As a culture, we build up female celebrities, politicians, and public figures of any kind, only to turn heel and tear them down — often with glee. We chalk this up to the starlet buckling… Read more »
Nobody wants to buy Saul Bellow’s old desk
Daniel Bellow, son of Saul, is having a tough time unloading the desk where the Nobel Prize-winning author did much of his writing. The famous writer bought the desk from… Read more »
Scholar discovers Darkness at Noon in the original German, translators the world over sharpen their pencils
Since its publication in 1940, Darkness at Noon, Arthur Koestler’s finest novel, has arrived at the hands of readers with a sizable caveat: despite being written in German, it is… Read more »
No phones, free whiskey and literature: the future of bookselling?
Last November, we wrote about the opening of a new bookshop in London, launched by Rohan Silva and Sam Aldenton, founders of Second Home, a “utopian workspace.” The shop, which is now… Read more »
NYRB archive, including complaining letters from Henry Kissinger and some surprising rejections, sold to NYPL
Yesterday the New York Public Library’s Board of Trustees announced that the library had acquired approximately 3,000 linear feet of editorial materials from the New York Review of Books archive. The papers date… Read more »
Three for Tuesday: An Interview with Tim Parks
Topics discussed: mozzarella sticks, Nick During, incompetence, silliness, fear, Martin Amis, Facebook comments, George Orwell, the New York Review of Books, Charlie Hebdo, Henry Green, the Nobel Prize, John Banville, Tomas Tranströmer, Karl Ove… Read more »
Few surprises from the 2014 VIDA Count
Drum roll please. The 2014 VIDA Count has been revealed. Vida represents Women in Literary Arts and undertakes an annual survey to profile the gender (and now race) of contributors… Read more »
The Nation celebrates 150th anniversary
How does one of the nation’s leading magazines celebrate 150 years of publication? With appropriate pomp and circumstance. The Nation, the oldest continuously published weekly magazine in the United States,… Read more »
The New York Review of Books and Vice team up. Wait, why are you laughing?
Earlier this week, Capital New York reported on a new partnership between the New York Review of Books and Vice News. Capital is an excellent publication (full disclosure: I have… Read more »