From The New York Times article “Making the iBio for Apple’s Genius” by Janet Maslin: Correction: October 22, 2011 An earlier version of this article incorrectly stated the premise of… Read more »

“U.S. forces stationed in a remote area of Afghanistan recently received about 20 copies of Bill O’Reilly’s book Pinheads and Patriots,” notes a Politico report. “Their orders upon receiving the… Read more »

Lit Drift has posted another 60-second description of a work of great literature. This time Maud Newton tackles Crime and Punishment. Others in the series include 60-second versions of The… Read more »

When The Washington Post lost its stand-alone book review section in 2009, it was seen by many as a harbinger of doom for print literary criticism and, perhaps, newspapers themselves. So it… 2 / Read more »

Occasioned by all the hoo-haw about Jonathan Franzen’s Freedom, Katha Pollitt asks in a Guardian column whether “male writers have an edge in attracting serious critical attention?” She asks it… 2 / Read more »

Adam Kirsch’s review of Tom McCarthy’s C in Slate (“Tom McCarthy’s C shows the future of fiction”) claims that “Tom McCarthy is a writer of destiny…but the destiny he represents… 6 / Read more »

We know, you get it: Melville House is Tao Lin’s publisher. So we’ll try to keep the shilling to a minimum. But yes, we did just publish Lin’s latest novel,… Read more »

“One opens a new novel and is promptly introduced to some dull minor characters. Tiring of them, one skims ahead to meet the leads, only to realize: those minor characters… 2 / Read more »

It’s a devil’s bargain if we’ve ever seen one. The literary world has been bemoaning the death of the book review section for years. The Los Angeles Times. The Washington… Read more »

The news seems bleaker than usual these days, observes Jessa Crispin a her newest column for PBS, “Bright Books for Dark Times.” Worse: “It’s not just that the news is… Read more »