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A few months back, we engaged in some “irresponsible speculation” about who might be in line for the editorship of The Paris Review. The magazine’s current editor, Philip Gourevitch, announced… 2 / Read more »

The following post by Edward Jay Epstein, author of the forthcoming The Hollywood Economist: The Hidden Financial Reality Behind the Movies (available from Melville House on February 23rd), is the… Read more »

Switzerland’s Council of States is considering reinstating its fixed price law for bookselling. The law would make Switzerland like many European countries—such as France, Germany and Italy—which already have the… Read more »

Today is the birthday of Australian poet Banjo Paterson. Born Andrew Barton Paterson this day in 1865 in Narrambla, in New South Wales. “Banjo” became Australia’s best-loved “bush” poet. At… Read more »