Publishers are releasing more than half a dozen editions of the report, and are now in a frantic race to be first to market. Read more
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How 2022 Became the Year of the Fragmented-Identity Novel
The tail end of 2022 has been marked by a worrying sense that the center really isn’t holding. Read more
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The Most Scathing Book Reviews of 2022
“Reading this book reminded me of watching a cat lick a dog’s eye goo.” Read more
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A Fifth of American Adults Struggle to Read. Why Are We Failing to Teach Them?
The nation’s approach to adult education has so far neglected to connect the millions of people struggling to read with the programs set up to help them. Read more
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Winners of Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest Announced
Founded in 1982 at San Jose State University in California, the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest challenges entrants to compose opening sentences to the worst of all possible novels. Read more
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Bookforum Is Closing, Leaving Ever Fewer Publications Devoted to Books
Launched in 1994, the magazine published reviews, essays and interviews, and was an important outlet for book reviewers and for authors. Read more
First Major Saul Bellow Documentary Comes to PBS
American Masters: The Adventures of Saul Bellow illuminates how Bellow transformed modern literature and navigated through the issues of his time, including race, gender and the Jewish immigrant experience, through rare archival footage and interviews with Philip Roth, Salman Rushdie and many others. Watch trailer
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The Murky Path To Becoming a New York Times Best Seller
No one outside The New York Times knows exactly how its best sellers are calculated—and the list of theories is longer than the actual list of best sellers. Read more
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The Gamification of Everything Is No Fun
Adrian Hon’s book “You’ve Been Played” warns against the abuses of game logic in work and politics. Read more
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Remainders of the Day by Shaun Bythell
Remainders of the Day is the third of Bythell’s sardonic bookseller diaries … The setup of each book is the same. Bythell charts a year in the life of his second-hand bookstore (the largest in Scotland), documenting in short, wry entries his dealings with customers, book-buying expeditions to stuffy country houses and small-town Scottish life. Read more
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