The 100 best British novels, as chosen by international critics
In this season of “Best of” lists, BBC Culture has outdone everyone. Rather than produce a list of the best books of the year, BBC has compiled a list of… Read more »
Chipotle announces new lineup of authors for cups & bags
Last May, spurred on by Jonathan Safran Foer, Chipotle Mexican Grill introduced a line of cups and takeout bags with short stories by authors like Foer, Toni Morrison, and George… Read more »
Vanity Fair profiles the “most famous independent bookstore in the world”
In an “age of Amazon,” writes Bruce Handy in the November issue of Vanity Fair, Shakespeare and Company, the legendary bookshop in Paris is a “destination” with lines out the… Read more »
Revelations from Proust’s questionnaire
In the mid-nineteenth century, filling out confession albums was a popular pastime in English households and French salons. In 1886, at age 14, Marcel Proust filled out answers to an… Read more »
Is Judge Denise Cote “publishing’s most unlikely scourge”?
Judge Denise Cote has “chilled the book business” with her sanctions against Apple, Simon & Schuster, Macmillan, Hachette, Harper Collins, and Penguin, writes David Margolick, in a new profile… Read more »
Hemingway estate says “No thanks” to Vanity Fair, “Yes” to Harper’s
Rejection doesn’t have to last forever. In the case of Hemingway and Vanity Fair, it only lasted 89 years. When young Ernest submitted “My Life in the Bull Ring with Donald… Read more »
Fifty years ago, a strike that changed New York publishing
Fifty years ago this month Local No. 6 of the International Typographical Union (I.T.U.), a union confederation known by the nickname the “Big Six,” went to war with New York’s… Read more »
“Firestorm on Fifth Avenue”: Vanity Fair on the NYPL renovation
An in-depth look at the NYPL library’s $300 million renovation plan… Read more »
Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose: Has literature stopped evolving?
At Vanity Fair, Kurt Anderson argues that there have been no radical change in style, culture, art, and fashion over the last 20 years—a stark contrast to every other two decade… 5 / Read more »