Caleb Crain

Caleb Crain is the author of the novel Necessary Errors, recently published by Penguin Books.

Copyright Without Law?

Copyright Without Law? Copyright Without Law?

A legal quirk enabled Samuel Roth to pirate Ulysses. Was Roth a copyright anarchist or a pioneer?

Oct 1, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Caleb Crain

A Professional Victim: On Ira B. Arnstein A Professional Victim: On Ira B. Arnstein

How music plagiarism ruined a composer’s career and literally drove him mad.

Apr 30, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Caleb Crain

Stalker

Stalker Stalker

For the novelist James Lasdun, being stalked online is like “swallowing a cup of poison every morning.”

Feb 13, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Caleb Crain

Havel’s Specter: On Václav Havel

Havel’s Specter: On Václav Havel Havel’s Specter: On Václav Havel

The Czech playwright's enduring ideas about politics, truth and human nature.

Mar 21, 2012 / Books & the Arts / Caleb Crain

Letters Letters

Do justices feel shame?—the Met found wanting—can Congress feel our pain?—eyewitnesses: not 20/20—a reviewed author objects—Rainbow Rowell’s wel...

Feb 29, 2012 / Letters / Our Readers and Caleb Crain

Fair and Balanced: On Copyright and Fair Use

Fair and Balanced: On Copyright and Fair Use Fair and Balanced: On Copyright and Fair Use

Have copyright laws failed?

Jan 18, 2012 / Books & the Arts / Caleb Crain

Pixies, Sheilas, Dirtbags and Cougar Bait: Modern Slang Pixies, Sheilas, Dirtbags and Cougar Bait: Modern Slang

There's more slang than dictionaries can capture, but two new lexicons speak volumes on the riches of language.

Dec 10, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Caleb Crain

Man’s Best Friend Man’s Best Friend

As Stevie Smith once wrote, while impersonating God, "I will forgive you everything,/But what you have done to my Dogs/I will not forgive." About Dan Rhodes's novel Timoleon Vi...

Oct 16, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Caleb Crain

The Undertaker’s Art, Exhumed The Undertaker’s Art, Exhumed

"It's a great mistake not to feel pleased when you have the chance," a rich, disfigured spinster advises a frail, well-mannered boy in The Shrimp and the Anemone, the first novel ...

Apr 11, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Caleb Crain

License to Ink License to Ink

The subtitle sounds bad, but keep in mind that Thorstein Veblen considered subtitling his book on academics "A Study in Total Depravity." The really bad news concerns the title: ...

Jan 24, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Caleb Crain

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