Criticism

Catherine Corman’s photographs, paired with passages from the novelist’s work, attempt to invoke Chandler’s L.A. within the contemporary streetscape.

Can a good book ever be a good movie?

Lysley Tenorio, Laura van den Berg, and Caitlin Horrocks are a few of the standouts in the latest Best New American Voices and PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories anthologies.

Walmart vs Amazon, B&N’s Nook, a Rothian tour of Newark, Lethem reads the whole of his new novel, and more.

It’s the now-standard HuffPo methodology: solicit unpaid writers to pad out their meager content, strip-mined from tabloids and gossip sites.

Remembering the National Book Award nominee.

Trying to make a living as a book reviewer, the $200 spare-parts book scanner, TriQuarterly’s future, behind the scenes at the Nobel Foundation, and more.

He has the surname that suggests
a contested kinship: Jefferson—

The Google Books settlement grinds onward, Amazon faces a class-action lawsuit for pushing their BookSurge POD service, great writers posthumous works raise questions, and more.

The first short story collection by the promising Uwem Akpan doesn’t so much celebrate the form as it does the success of gimmickry.