The Long Goodbye?
Elisabeth Sifton
Book publishers have always predicted that the end was nigh. When it does come they will have only themselves to blame.

Elisabeth Sifton
Book publishers have always predicted that the end was nigh. When it does come they will have only themselves to blame.
Alexander Cockburn
Weep not for the death of the old Fourth Estate: at almost every critical hour, in every decade, it failed us.
Eric Alterman : Journalists & Journalism
We have no more hope today of saving the newspaper business than we do the telegraph business. But we can save the news.
Eric Alterman : Journalists & Journalism
As newspapers become increasingly irrelevant, is making them tax-exempt their last, best hope?
John Nichols & Robert W. McChesney : Journalists & Journalism
The collapse of journalism threatens democracy itself--that's why we need a government rescue.
Richard R. John : History
Will the Obama administration reaffirm the civic mandate of the Postal Service that was damaged during the Bush years?

Ted Solotaroff : Autobiography & Memoir
Cynthia Ozick, Norman Podhoretz and Alfred Chester contribute to the education of an editor. Second of a two-part memoir.
Ted Solotaroff : Autobiography & Memoir
An unfinished memoir by the late literary editor and critic. The first part of a two-part article.
Katha Pollitt
The economy of reading is rapidly collapsing. If we can bail out banks, why not the book industry?
Tom Engelhardt : U.S. Economy
An editor ponders the publishing industry meltdown--and the precarious future of books.
Chris Lehmann : The Short of It
An account of the most recent installment in the nation's sick love affair with literary exhibitionists.
Amy Alexander : African-Americans
Driven by a tabloid episode from her own marriage, the novelist joins the debate over the mass marketing of trashy books to young black readers.
You thought Arthur was gone for good? The indie magazine beloved for its music coverage and antiwar politics will resume publishing this summer.
Clint Hendler : Corporate Media & Consolidation
No matter what you think of The New Republic's politics, the public sphere will suffer if the magazine becomes homogenized by its new corporate owner.
The plagiarism flap over Opal Mehta is essentially a story about clichés and stereotypes passing from one subliterary commercial product to another.
Matthew Flamm : Autobiography & Memoir
James Frey's faux memoir exposes corporate publishing as an
industry so starved for bestsellers that it is unable to protect
itself from fraud.
Brenda Wineapple : Feminism & Women
Nancy Drew has been a fixture in young girls' lives since 1930. But the continuing appeal of this spunky American icon--never sad, wrinkled or misunderstood--is both heartwarming and a little scary.
