Israel is Real blowback, authors make it big on HBO, Condé Nast soft-pedals an investigation into Putin, and more.
Dominique Browning asks why somebody won’t think of the children?
Mark Penn continues to embarrass the WSJ, Venezuela cracks down on publishers, the poetry of Shimon Peres, and more.
Amidst all the excitement of the Roths and Moores and Chabons we should not forget about Lydia Davis, whose Collected Stories comes out in one month.
Rarely have I witnessed such a countdown for a new novel from a female writer as I have with Lorrie Moore’s A Gate at the Stairs.
Drunken Boat’s editor arrested, Lopate appreciates the under-appreciated, NYTBR on the MJ, and more.
Part workshop, part retreat, part lecture, it hibernates for much of the year in university English departments and home offices, emerging for a week or two at the height of the summer before scuttling back to its lair.
Inglourious Basterds, stalagim, Eurabia-mongers, Don DeLillo’s Point Omega, and more.
Conventional wisdom holds that running is bad for the knees. Conventional wisdom is wrong.