VIDA: Women in Literary Arts released their 2016 survey results this week. Each year, the count tracks representation in literary media by gender. This is the first one to factor in age… Read more »

Melville House has announced it will publish a collection of passionate manifestos by leading progressives—including Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Gloria Steinem, Paul Krugman, Robert B. Reich, and others—and that it… Read more »

Less than two weeks after John Kerry announced that the U.S. was working with the Russian government to establish an (already compromised) ceasefire in Syria, a group of Syrian writers, artists,… Read more »

Topics discussed: Gene Simmons (again), this column’s terrible name (again), Salman Rushdie, Jonah Berger, Rick Moody, Goodreads, Amazon, Netflix, Barnes & Noble, the New York Review of Books, n+1, The… Read more »

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 »

A controversial $350 million transformation of the New York Public Library’s research library at 42nd (see the earlier MobyLives report) has a new opponent: In an Inside Higher Ed column,… 7 / Read more »

A “gargantuan” and potentially controversial renovation of the New York Public Library’s iconic Stephen A. Schwarzman library is afoot, according to a must-read report by Scott Sherman in The Nation.… Read more »