One thing to be glad about: Robert Caro is eighty-two today, and it’s a fine excuse to spend the day thinking about Robert Caro, who’s easily a candidate for least stupid… Read more »

The book designer Paul Bacon died last week in Fishkill, NY. He was ninety-one years old. Though Bacon illustrated a number of beautiful jazz album covers, he was better known… Read more »

The July 4 weekend has come to a close, but if the fireworks and ubiquitous red, white, and blue paraphernalia have left you in a particularly patriotic mood, we have your… Read more »

On-demand services have not only changed the way we watch television shows, they’ve affected our expectations of all media. Instant gratification and binge-watching have affected the consumer model, and the… Read more »

In a sprawling, two-page article Daily Beast critic Mark Wortman laments the recent glut in extremely long books. In this epically long blog post titled “Are books becoming too long… 7 / Read more »