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April 13, 2011
Before the Flood: Information Before the Information Age
Ann Blair’s Too Much to Know explains how across the centuries the profusion of information has always inspired readers to invent shortcuts to knowledge.
Paula Findlen
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October 27, 2010
The Pirate’s Prophet: On Lewis Hyde
Is the cultural commons a viable alternative to the copyright regime, or does it risk turning culture into a consumerist slum?
David Wallace-Wells
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September 30, 2010
A Man of Enthusiasms: On Ben Sonnenberg
Remembering Ben Sonnenberg (1936–2010)—writer, publisher, boulevardier—and his quarterly, Grand Street.
Maria Margaronis
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July 15, 2010
The Trouble With Amazon
It's big, cheap and convenient. But does the online bookseller really serve readers' interests?
Colin Robinson
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July 14, 2010
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April 20, 2010
Historian in Trouble: Orlando Figes and his Sock Puppet
A historian admits he denounced rivals anonymously on the internet.
Jon Wiener
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January 28, 2010
Shelf Life
Joseph Stiglitz's Freefall, Mark Weiss's The Whole Island and Robert Darnton's The Case for Books.
John Palattella
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May 20, 2009
The Long Goodbye? The Book Business and its Woes
Book publishers have always predicted that the end was nigh. When it does come they will have only themselves to blame.
Elisabeth Sifton
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May 13, 2009
Who Needs Yesterday’s Papers?
Weep not for the death of the old Fourth Estate: at almost every critical hour, in every decade, it failed us.
Alexander Cockburn