In England, Amazon is the new coal mine
Kelly Burdick
The mines have closed, and a new industry has come to town… Read more »
New arrests in the News of the World case
Sal Robinson
Yesterday brought new developments in the ongoing sordid story… Read more »
In defense of Maria Popova
Dustin Kurtz
If your website is part of an affiliate program and you potentially earn money by linking to books — either on Amazon or Indiebound or others — are you ethically… Read more »
Whale words
Kevin Murphy
The word “whale” occurs 1,685 times in Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick. “Elijah” is there 15 times, “Ahab” 512, and “harpoon” 256 times. I know this not from dutiful reading, but because… Read more »
Robert Bly’s “distinguished lifetime achievement”
Aly Vander Hayden
On Tuesday, the nation’s oldest poetry organization, The Poetry Society of America, awarded the annual Robert Frost Medal for a “distinguished lifetime achievement in poetry” to Robert Bly. Though the… Read more »
