Features & Reviews

Travel writing is mostly bad. It’s partly the fault of the form; contemporary travel magazines are filled with 10 Best New Hotels/Bars/Spas on Yet Another Tony Exclusive Island or How…

The Institute for the Future of the Book “investigates the evolution of intellectual discourse as it shifts from printed pages to networked screens.” As you may have noticed, here at…

The novel Nabokov was working on when he died, The Original of Laura, is set to be released in the US on November 17th.

Two weeks ago, the American Booksellers Association, an organization of independent booksellers, asked the Justice Department to investigate what it describes as “illegal predatory pricing” by big-box retailers Amazon.com, Wal-Mart,…

“‘Listen, Truman,’ [John Cheever] told Truman Capote. ‘It’s the most terrible, glum place you can conceivably imagine. It’s really really, really grim. But I did come out of there sober.”…

“[…] but I was worried that there was something else out there that we hadn’t thought of.” Ethan Watters, author of Urban Tribes, discusses his experiences choosing a cover for…