September 20, 2013

When The New Yorker was founded, in 1925, by Harold Ross, it was conceived as both a bastion and a parody of cosmopolitan sophistication: As Ross famously put it in… Read more »

Book Design

20th anniversary edition of Infinite Jest features fan-designed cover — Kait Howard
This year's publishing trend—the remarkably lengthy novel — Julia Fleischaker
When reading can transport you ... because there's a subway chip in the cover — Taylor Sperry
Forty years later: the book jacket for "Jaws" — Kirsten Reach

Russia’s children’s ombudsman: Forget about sex education, just read Russian literature

Zeljka Marosevic

It’s not the first thing that comes to mind when you consider Russian literature, but Pavel Astakhov, Russia’s children’s ombudsman (aka Children’s Rights Commissioner for the President of the Russian… Read more »

North Carolina School District bans Invisible Man

Amy Conchie

This week in irony: A school board in North Carolina has decided to erase Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man from its reading lists and library shelves following a parental complaint which… Read more »

Happy birthday, George R.R. Martin

Kirsten Reach

George R.R. Martin turns 64 today. Born in Bayonne, New Jersey, he’s the author of the Game of Thrones series. (You know you want to watch him react to the… Read more »

Kuzya the cat is promoted to assistant librarian in Russia

Claire Kelley

Librarians in the Russian city of Novorossiysk adopted a homeless cat named Kuzya who showed up at their door last October. The librarians were impressed with his ability to bring… Read more »

Melville House Books

Brief notes on The New Yorker redesign

Christopher King