There are few hells more tormenting than hanging with other writers. We are an insecure, egocentric, petty, envious breed who enjoy spreading pain, hoping to maximize it for ourselves.
Stephen C. Rose | Posted 08.20.2008 | Home
Kos may be the digital-era Saul Alinsky, as one reviewer put it, taking local activism online. Obama has updated Alinksy as well, synthesizing a national and local approach.
Robyn Blumner | Posted 08.19.2008 | Media
Amazon claims to be able to intuit what I would want to read, so why can't it figure out that I don't want a Kindle and actually resent the thing? I am not "platform-agnostic."
Scott Thill | Posted 08.18.2008 | Entertainment
Adam Mansbach is a dude of many hats. A hip-hop poet that can recite histories old-school and new without missing a beat, especially in his acid satire Angry Black White Boy.
Bob Vanderet | Posted 08.14.2008 | Home
It is the pictures in the book that are most moving, mugshots of the freedom fighters as they were booked into Southern jails for the "crime" of race-mixing, for associating on an equal basis with humans who happen to have a different skin color.
Jeff VanderMeer | Posted 08.14.2008 | Entertainment
This summer has seen the release of some engrossing novels that reflect a post 9-11 sensibility that assimilates and responds to the last seven years of absurdity, horror, heartbreak, stupidity, and dueling cynicism-idealism.
Crains New York | Matthew Flamm | Posted 08.07.2008 | Media
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins, has won an auction to publish the autobiography of rock legend Steven Tyler, according to publishing sources. Ecco...
Cynthia Kling | Posted 08.05.2008 | Living
Squire's witty and deeply researched work proves one thing: marriage has been hard on both husbands and wives for a very long time. But, but, but... is there anything we can do to make it easier?
Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 08.05.2008 | Politics
Corsi's biggest claim to fame is co-authoring the infamous Swift Boat Veterans for Truth. Judging from the shrill and paranoid tone of his latest effort I get the impression Obama has really scared these guys this time.
Greg Mitchell | Posted 08.02.2008 | Politics
It was the e-mail read 'round the world. Nearly four years ago an Iranian-American correspondent in Iraq for The Wall Street Journal -- sent a brutally frank, private e-mail to friends that somehow leaked out: "Iraq remains a disaster," she wrote.
Silicon Alley Insider | Peter Kafka | Posted 08.01.2008 | Business
Newest data point on Amazon's Kindle sales, which Amazon says are great but won't ever quantify: TechCrunch cites "a source close to Amazon with direc...
Liz Spikol | Posted 08.01.2008 | Media
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Josie Garthwaite | Posted 07.31.2008 | Green
Four years' worth of college textbooks use the paper equivalent of yields from at least six 40-foot trees.
Lissa Warren | Posted 07.29.2008 | Media
For the most part, blogs about books don't actually review any books. Instead, they cover the business of publishing and the culture surrounding it, and the world of the author.
Tom Davis | Posted 07.29.2008 | Living
Robin Friedman has written a series of critically acclaimed children's and young-adult novels that explore the trivial -- though often humorous -- experiences of kids as they grow up.
Kevin Morris and Glenn Altschuler | Posted 07.25.2008 | Media
Joyce Carol Oates' new novel is a full-throated critique of the late Baby-boom culture of celebrity, social-climbing, psycho-speak, "cybercesspoolspace," and "heaven scent" spirituality.
Jon Robin Baitz | Posted 07.23.2008 | Media
So I read yesterday that the L.A. Times has finally done in the book review section. Sad, short sighted, and just another bad omen for the print world.
Dave Burdick | Posted 07.23.2008 | Business
I could hand this to my friends or my parents and feel confident that they could read with it -- it might be easier to use than an iPod (but, importantly, it's not easier to use than a book).
Jay Neugeboren | Posted 07.21.2008 | Entertainment
So grateful was Hitler to his Jewish childhood physician that in 1940 he intervened to provide Dr. Bloch and his family with visas that enabled them to escape Austria and the Holocaust.
Steven G. Kellman | Posted 07.21.2008 | Entertainment
A few historians and psychoanalysts have suggested that that Hitler's physician was himself responsible in part for Adolf's violent obsession with Jews.
Jan Herman | Posted 07.16.2008 | Entertainment
Half a century since its publication, William S. Burroughs' Naked Lunch will be examined more closely by scholars, critics and other riffraff in Naked Lunch @ 50: Anniversary Essays.
Andrew Frisicano | Posted 07.16.2008 | Media
Take note: Sonic Youth's story is largely unglamorous. And rightfully so. While excising rock from its blues roots, SY also managed to create a new paradigm of the rock star.
Greg Mitchell | Posted 07.15.2008 | Media
Sure to get media tongues a-wagging when published on July 31 is the new John Darnton novel, Black and White and Dead All Over.
Washington Post | Joby Warrick | Posted 07.12.2008 | Politics
A CIA analyst warned the Bush administration in 2002 that up to a third of the detainees at Guantanamo Bay may have been imprisoned by mistake, but Wh...
Bruce Kluger & David Slavin | Posted 07.10.2008 | Home
By now, we've all read about the latest environmental wedgie that Vice President Dick Cheney has given to the world's climate. If you somehow missed t...
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Dennis Perrin | Posted 08.20.2008 | Entertainment