Is “manspreading” a word? And is it a crime?
The outrage over “manspreading”—a new word submission that the Collins Dictionary defines as “a male passenger in a bus or train splaying his legs and denying space to the passenger… Read more »
“The lady’s bottom isn’t pert enough” Jilly Cooper gets toned down
The history of the world is usually told as one of scientific and technological progress, matched by the decline of social propriety and the weakening of morals. We have the… Read more »
The legal dispute over foreign editions of J.D. Salinger stories
The estate of J.D. Salinger is, once again (or still), embroiled in a copyright dispute, this time involving the sale of foreign editions of the late author’s work. Andrew Albanese… Read more »
Author admits he plagiarized entire Vietnam memoir, was never there
In Dennis Surrendi’s memoir, Set Me Free, self-published in 2014, he told the harrowing story of his time fighting in Vietnam. The details sounded an awful lot like the harrowing… Read more »
Guy who people thought was Thomas Pynchon in P.T. Anderson’s Inherent Vice: “I am not Thomas Pynchon and also Thomas Pynchon was not in Inherent Vice.”
Inherent Vice was probably the movie we spent the most time discussing in our office last year (in part because it came out while we were pulling all nighters putting together The… Read more »
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