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 »

It’s been six months since the release of the executive summary of the Senate Intelligence Committee’s report on torture (and Melville House’s publication of the report in book form), yet… Read more »

Leo Tolstoy lived several lifetimes in one, and filled them all with writing. So when his great-great-granddaughter, Fyokla Tolstaya, initiated a project to put his complete works online, free and… Read more »

When The New Yorker was founded, in 1925, by Harold Ross, it was conceived as both a bastion and a parody of cosmopolitan sophistication: As Ross famously put it in… Read more »

By the mid-1930s, F. Scott Fitzgerald had published some of his best known works—This Side of Paradise in 1920, The Great Gatsby in 1925, and Tender Is the Night in… Read more »

In a Salon essay Alec Nevala-Lee suggests that a New Yorker profile may actually be a curse for Hollywood’s biggest talent, such that “whenever a New Yorker profile shows a… 1 / Read more »

So little media, so much rejection. Prospective authors and hopeful manuscript submitters, take note.  Prepare your sensitive souls for rejection from harsh editors by first sending yourself a few rejection… Read more »

What’s Viktor Bout, the convicted international arms trafficker, reading these days? In an interview with Nicholas Schmidle of The New Yorker, Bout—who is currently awaiting sentencing at Manhattan Correctional Center… Read more »

The internet is atwitter over the findings of the newest VIDA survey, which looked at the representation of “Women In Literary Arts” and found, once again, that things are far… Read more »

Last week, the sci-fi superblog Io9 hailed our author Jean-Christophe Valtat’s wildly inventive Arctic fantasia Aurorarama as a top 10 sci-fi gift novel (“a wildly different take on the genre”). In this week’s… Read more »