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May 30, 2014
A Minimum Wage for Writers? ‘The Nation’ (Almost) Proposed It In 1912.
There is no avoiding the inherently alienating consequences of trying to earn a living through the production of words.
Richard Kreitner
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May 6, 2014
University Presses Under Fire
How the Internet and slashed budgets have endangered one of higher education’s most important institutions.
Scott Sherman
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April 22, 2014
The Brand Is My Business
The only mystery about The Black-Eyed Blonde is when publishing derivative works became original.
Sarah Weinman
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December 18, 2013
Remembering André Schiffrin
For decades, first at Pantheon and then at the New Press, he was a lion of progressive publishing.
Victor Navasky
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November 19, 2013
Here Comes Everybody
Women writers are far outnumbered by men in magazines and book reviews, but why? Part of the answer lies in book publishing.
Miriam Markowitz
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October 1, 2013
Copyright Without Law?
A legal quirk enabled Samuel Roth to pirate Ulysses. Was Roth a copyright anarchist or a pioneer?
Caleb Crain
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September 10, 2013
Rising Above the Failure of Imagination
The conversation about diversity in Science Fiction & Fantasy reveals how racism constrains even imagination.
Roxane Gay
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January 30, 2013
Safety Net: On Thomas Bernhard and Siegfried Unseld
In his writing and life, Thomas Bernhard led a charge in the opposite direction. His publisher always broke his fall.
Holly Case
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November 28, 2012
How Mergermania Is Destroying Book Publishing
The merger of Penguin and Random House is part of a trend that has been deadly for literary authors and serious nonfiction.
André Schiffrin
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October 2, 2012
The Obama-Bashing Book Bonanza
A consolidated publishing industry, along with the right-wing media machine, has fostered the market for extremist hit jobs.
Michelle Goldberg