George Will goes on The O’Reilly Factor to explain why O’Reilly’s book is “nonsensical”
Poor Bill O’Reilly can’t seem to catch a break. Last time we checked in with America’s most insecure blowhard, the writer and TV host was trying—unsuccessfully—to wage war against Publishers… Read more »
1995 book reveals that Jeb Bush is a fan of shame
Books by politicians usually have two things in common: 1) they have sublimely generic titles and 2) they don’t tend to be very substantive. This is sensible. After all, the… Read more »
New Catholic literary prize
A new literary prize with religious underpinnings has been established by America magazine and St. Thomas More Chapel at Yale University, Ron Charles reports for the Washington Post. Accompanied by… Read more »
Washington Post, Jeff would like to introduce you to these Amazon devices
When Jeff Bezos bought The Washington Post last year, we all wondered why. Why would Bezos want to get into newspapers? Surely newspapers are grazing peacefully alongside the “sickly gazelles” (read: publishers) that Bezos… Read more »
Amazon buys digital comics platform comiXology
Amazon announced last week that it was purchasing comiXology, a major platform for digital comics used by most comic publishers, including the two biggest, Marvel and DC Comics. As Michael… Read more »
Can books and libraries help restore Baghdad’s cultural heritage?
A young government employee in Iraq has set out to bring the city of Baghdad back to its past, using books and a makeshift library to establish it once again… Read more »
Newly disclosed documents reveal CIA plan to use Doctor Zhivago as propaganda
Newly declassified documents show that the Central Intelligence Agency ran a top-secret campaign to use Boris Pasternak’s novel Doctor Zhivago as anti-Soviet propaganda behind the Iron Curtain. The Washington Post ran… Read more »
Jane Goodall addresses accusations of plagiarism
Last year, the Washington Post’s Steven Levingston reported that noted primatologist Jane Goodall had plagiarized significant chunks of her then-upcoming book, Seeds of Hope, co-written with editor Gail Hudson. The numerous… Read more »
New book app recreates the feeling of serialized novels
The days of serialized prose fiction are largely a thing of the past, in our age of binge-viewing and -reading. Comic books still offer the thrill of a cliffhanger every… Read more »
Bay Psalm Book sells for $14.2 million
Back in April, we told you about an extremely rare book going up for auction from Sotheby’s, expected to sell for millions. The auction for the copy of The Whole Booke of Psalmes that’s… Read more »