Only Shakespeare and the Bible have out-performed the sales of Agatha Christie, the Grand Dame of detective fiction. (According to her estate, her books have sold over four billion copies.) But,… Read more »

Last week, Amazon, a company not unfamiliar with litigation, was hit with a new lawsuit. The case, Taree Truong et al. v. Amazon.com et al, was filed by four former… Read more »

Topics discussed: Thomas Pynchon, our Thomas Pynchon petition, the huge success of our Thomas Pynchon petition, liking books, loving books, #amreading, the We Love Books Party, the Constitution Party, arsenic,… Read more »

Topics discussed: death, On Kawara, bouncy castles, Mark Wahlberg, Ben Affleck, Slate, disruption, #disruption, e-books, Barnes & Noble, ideology, Matt Yglesias, Uber, martinis, dens, tweed, candelight, Mumford and Sons, Periscope,… 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 »

Last week, Amazon unveiled its own line of diapers called Amazon Elements, which, according to Time, “sets the online retailer up as a competitor with its suppliers,” and according to… Read more »