A 3,600-word cover story in the current issue of Bloomberg Businessweek by Drake Bennett focuses on Melville House author David Graeber, author of Debt: The First 5,000 Years, and tells… Read more »

Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych has been accused of plagiarism in his new book, according to a wire report from the Associated Press. “Some parts of Opportunity Ukraine bear a striking… Read more »

“Of all the murders committed in New York City in 1964 — 636, to be ­precise — only that of Catherine ­Susan Genovese launched a whole subfield of social science:… Read more »

Masha Gessen’s new book, The Man Without a Face: The Rise and Crimes of Vladimir Putin, has been stirring up the Frankfurt Book Festival for its controversial take on the… 4 / 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 »

Anthony Arnove is a literary agent and the author of Iraq: The Logic of Withdrawal; he’s also the co-author (with Howard Zinn) of Voices of a People’s History of the… Read more »

“A Norwegian writer said he was ‘spooked by the scary similarity’ between the Utoya massacre and a book he wrote 23 years ago about a crazed political extremist who commits… Read more »

Last year Michael Hastings’ Rolling Stone article “The Runaway General” caused a shitstorm of controversy for the Obama Administration. The fracas forced President Obama to fire General Stanley McCrystal from his… Read more »

Soon to be extinct: one of the more hyperbolic compliments engendered by last century’s technology — “I could listen to her read the phonebook….” The what? The telephone book has… 6 / Read more »

The race is on in the publishing industry. Who will be the first to get a Bin Laden book out into the market? Monday, according to a report in The… Read more »