Ken Kalfus, the author of, among other things, the funniest novel ever written about 9/11 and the best short story ever written about an IMF official, recently published a piece… Read more »

“Crooks himself never tweeted. He never retweeted. But he had developed his own, impassioned way of favoriting.” As Alexis Madrigal tells it, the first heard about Koons Crooks, he immediately wondered… Read more »

Topics discussed: Paul and Linda McCartney, Wings, Paul McCartney and Wings, The Fireman, the big questions, President Obama, Thomas Pynchon, Alex’s family, Pontius Pilate, Satan, Jesus, Richard Farina, mustaches, V,… Read more »

Last week, Buzzfeed published an essay by the writer Isaac Fitzgerald about his encounters with books during his youth and early adulthood. In the piece, Fitzgerald described a few of… Read more »

Last time we wrote about Leon Wieseltier, The New Republic—where Leon Wieseltier had worked for thirty-one years—had vertically integrated itself into something confusing that no longer had room for its… Read more »

The New York Times Book Review is one of the last two stand-alone book review sections in the country, or the very last (depending on what you think about the… Read more »

On Monday, actor/wet squirrel Shia LaBeouf posted his short film, “HaroldCantour.com,” which stars Jim Gaffigan and had been praised at Cannes, online. Within 24 hours a number of writers—most notably comic… Read more »

Last Monday, growing internet force Buzzfeed rolled out their new Books page, thereby ruining books for everyone, everywhere, for the rest of human history. The launch was relatively unheralded, in… Read more »