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December 18, 2008
Reading in an Age of Depression
An editor ponders the publishing industry meltdown–and the precarious future of books.
Tom Engelhardt
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March 25, 2008
Victim ‘Hood
An account of the most recent installment in the nation’s sick love affair with literary exhibitionists.
Chris Lehmann
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October 15, 2007
Terry McMillan vs. Ghetto Lit
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.
Amy Alexander
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July 11, 2007
Arthur: The Little Magazine That Could
You thought Arthur was gone for good? The indie magazine beloved for its music coverage and antiwar politics will resume publishing this summer.
Kevin McCarthy
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March 6, 2007
TNR’s New Owners
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.
Clint Hendler
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May 4, 2006
Sloppy Seconds
The plagiarism flap over Opal Mehta is essentially a story about clichés and stereotypes passing from one subliterary commercial product to another.
Stuart Klawans
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January 26, 2006
Truth, Fiction and Frey
James Frey’s faux memoir exposes corporate publishing as an industry so starved for bestsellers that it is unable to protect itself from fraud.
Matthew Flamm
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January 13, 2006
The Cost of Integrity
The recent controversy over false claims in James Frey’s The recent controversy over false claims in James Frey’s best-selling memoir “A Million Little Pieces” raises questions about the ethics of the author and of the publishing industry at large. This article opened a 1978 The Nation forum on “Truth in Publishing.”
Richard Kluger
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November 30, 2005
Nancy Has Two Mommies
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.
Brenda Wineapple
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April 28, 2005
Protest and Survive
Thoughts on the critical role of the journal of dissent in America.
Victor Navasky