Essays

The great anthropological cookbooks of the 1960s and 1970s have been all but replaced by the fluffy side-projects of TV personalities, further alienating home cooks from their kitchens.

The Frankfurt Book Fair bows to Chinese censorship, B&N Review gets redesigned, a single sentence animated, private lives made public, and more.

Yesterday evening, I read that poet Jim Carroll passed away this weekend from a heart attack at just sixty years old. I surprised myself by crying for a man I did not even know.

Some would toss their e-book device in the glove compartment and head out on the super highway. I’ll take the heft of the book in my hand.

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.