Recommended based on your recent purchases: plastic baggies, Breaking Bad on DVD, and an 8-ball! That’s an exaggeration of what’s happened on Amazon recently, but it’s not so very far from… Read more »

As Laura Hazard Owen of paidContent reports, The Atlantic announced Wednesday that they will begin publishing ebooks under a new venture called The Atlantic Books. The press will publish “original long-form… Read more »

In a little-reported move, Benjamin Schwarz has left The Atlantic. Since 2000, Schwarz has edited the Atlantic’s books and ideas section, which published reviews and essays by Christopher Hitchens, B.R. Myers, Caitlin Flanagan, Perry… Read more »

Here’s another division of the citizens of the world into two kinds of people: those who love, and those who hate, Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged. I was in high school when… Read more »

A CIA front? A killer of criticism? A stupid machine?… Read more »

It’s 1931, in a book industry without returns, discounting, superstores, or even paperbacks. Where do you buy a book? As Alexis Madrigal writes in The Atlantic, the answer is not… 1 / Read more »

So asks Scott Esposito at Conversational Reading, in reply to a new essay by Sarah Fay — “Could the Internet Save Book Reviews?” — published on the website of The… Read more »

The re-launched Baffler — back from the dead under editor John Summers — carries a 10-page takedown of The Atlantic by Maureen Tkacik. The piece (“Omniscient Gentleman of The Atlantic,” not available… Read more »

The internet is atwitter over the findings of the newest VIDA survey, which looked at the representation of “Women In Literary Arts” and found, once again, that things are far… Read more »

On the heels of lawsuits levied against the city for the destruction of the Occupy Wall Street library, Columbia architecture school grad John Locke has clandestinely installed a pair of… 2 / Read more »