Stephen Colbert presents The Hungry for Power Games
The 2016 Republication National Convention has officially released its schedule for the coming days—a program capped with the “theme” “Make America One Again” and “headliners” Peter Thiel, Tom Barrack, Ivanka… 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 »
Who are the richest writers?
It’s awards season, and some high profile winners have already been announced: The Nobel went to Svetlana Alexeivich, Marlon James received the Man Booker, and Ta-Nehisi Coates claimed the National Book Award… Read more »
Hunger Games theme parks probably won’t feature human sacrifice ride
In one of the more unsettling forays into Hollywood franchising, Lionsgate Entertainment is moving forward with a plan to open two new amusement parks—one in Atlanta, another in Macau—based on Suzanne Collins’s… Read more »
“Clean teen” is a dirty word
Yesterday Bloomsbury Children’s Books, one of the leading publishers of children’s fiction (whose authors include JK Rowling, Neil Gaiman and Benjamin Zephaniah), announced a new global strand of publishing: clean… Read more »
Needed: Gender-neutral covers, especially for boys
Shortly after Jane Eyre was first published, a skeptical male critic picked up a copy and started reading. “I found myself unable to put it down. At midnight I was on… Read more »