September 13, 2012

A CIA front? A killer of criticism? A stupid machine?… Read more »

Marco Rubio’s An American Son is a memoir, but is it also an ethics violation? — Mark Krotov
Uproar over publication of Haruki Murakami's high school library records — Liam O'Brien
FSG publishing anonymously authored Silicon Valley satire---all 18 pages of it — Ena Brdjanovic
Are financial scammers really turning to Neil Strauss' The Game for guidance? — Liam O'Brien

Cops trashing books: not just for the NYPD anymore

Dustin Kurtz

Last Friday morning in the Al-Nabi Daniel bookstalls of Alexandria, security forces — reportedly sent by newly elected governor Mohamed Atta Abbas — destroyed sixteen of the market’s forty-eight stalls.… Read more »

Is Reed Elsevier nearing the iceberg?

Sal Robinson

Reed Elsevier scored big on Monday when the landmark papers reporting on the Higgs-Boson particle were published in their journal Physics Letters B, where they are freely available online to… Read more »

Talking shop with an indie bookseller

Kevin Murphy

This is a new and occasional series that asks some of our favorite independent booksellers four simple questions. The questions are the same, but the answers (predictably) vary. If you’re… Read more »

Melville House Books

Is the Atlantic making us stupid?

Kelly Burdick