What Happened to Newspaper Book Reviewing? What Happened to Newspaper Book Reviewing?
As a mode of recommendation, the newspaper fiction review has less to recommend it than ever before.
Jul 27, 2022 / Books & the Arts / Frank Guan
You Can’t Buy These Books You Can’t Buy These Books
In their attack on libraries, megapublishers roll a Trojan horse into the courts.
Jul 18, 2022 / Maria Bustillos
The Gilded Age of Magazines The Gilded Age of Magazines
The decline and fall of the glossy.
Jul 12, 2022 / Books & the Arts / Kevin Lozano
“The New York Times” Has Badly Lost Its Bearings “The New York Times” Has Badly Lost Its Bearings
Its next editor, Joe Kahn, needs to get it back on course.
May 13, 2022 / Dan Froomkin
Farewell to Midge Decter, the Bigot on the Beach Farewell to Midge Decter, the Bigot on the Beach
The obituaries for the founding mother of neoconservatism fail to give a sense of how vile her opinions really were.
May 13, 2022 / Jeet Heer
Don’t Fear a Red Planet: The Story of the World’s Only Native Comic Shop Don’t Fear a Red Planet: The Story of the World’s Only Native Comic Shop
Lee Francis IV turned an empty hair salon into a space for “Indigenerds” to let their imaginations run wild.
May 4, 2022 / Cecilia Nowell
Now Amazon Is Being Challenged in the Boardroom as Well Now Amazon Is Being Challenged in the Boardroom as Well
A campaign by New York and Illinois pension fund leaders, led by New York City Comptroller Brad Lander, aims to pressure the company on its shocking record on workplace safety and ...
Apr 26, 2022 / Nathan Newman
The War of Words Between Between “Rashka” and Ukraine The War of Words Between Between “Rashka” and Ukraine
On the culture front between “Rashka” and Ukraine.
Mar 17, 2022 / Benjamin Moser
The Book Arsenal: A Dispatch From the Cultural Front in Kyiv The Book Arsenal: A Dispatch From the Cultural Front in Kyiv
Ukrainian publisher Anetta Antonenko has her books, her cats, her language—and her gun.
Feb 28, 2022 / Benjamin Moser
I Helped Publish “Maus.” Never Once Have I Regretted It. I Helped Publish “Maus.” Never Once Have I Regretted It.
If you truly want a teenager to read any book with gusto, the first thing you need to do is, of course, ban it.
Feb 21, 2022 / Tom Engelhardt