How do authors respond when they become the victims of stalking?
As an author, you want to cultivate obsessive fans—fans who will buy each of your books in hardcover and patiently wait for hours to have you sign them without then… Read more »
J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI files on Sartre and Camus
In Prospect Magazine this week, Andy Martin writes about the files that FBI director J. Edgar Hoover kept on both Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus after 1945. Sartre was involved in… Read more »
The FBI monitored “communist writer” Carlos Fuentes for decades
Recently released documents have revealed that the FBI and the US State Department closely monitored the activity of the Mexican writer Carlos Fuentes, whom they regarded as a communist and… Read more »
Is Amazon one of the companies working with the NSA to spy on you?
“It’s as if George Bush had gotten a fourth term” — a sickeningly true observation made all the more sickening by the fact that it was made by no less… Read more »
New book says Nixon was just collateral damage for an ambitious Deep Throat
Jack Shafer has high praise for a new book about Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein’s Watergate reporting and their most famous source, W. Mark Felt. The book is Leak: Why… Read more »