Brief notes on The New Yorker redesign
Christopher King
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 »
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 »
Oyster, a new book subscription app, launched this week to much fanfare. Already being called a “Netflix for books,” (by Mashable, GigaOm, the LA Times, and many more), Oyster works… Read more »
In the early 1950s, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, a former Navy officer who had become a pacifist and anarchist after witnessing the bombing of Nagasaki, had recently moved to San Francisco to… Read more »
Trade publishers are scrambling to find ways to take advantage of the new State Common Core Standards, which are being implemented in K-12 schools throughout the country. While they are… Read more »
The BBC is reporting that literary circles in Wales have become divided over the issue of whether to continue supporting the Library of Wales, a program whose goal is to… Read more »
For six years late in her life, the German author Irmgard Keun lived in the psychiatric ward in a hospital in Bonn. After being discharged in 1972 she lived an impoverished existence in a… Read more »
President Obama’s speech at the Tucson memorial service commemorating those who died in the shooting rampage that hospitalized Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, is now available as an e-book. According to the… Read more »