Dominique Browning asks why somebody won’t think of the children?
Mark Penn continues to embarrass the WSJ, Venezuela cracks down on publishers, the poetry of Shimon Peres, and more.
Amidst all the excitement of the Roths and Moores and Chabons we should not forget about Lydia Davis, whose Collected Stories comes out in one month.
Rarely have I witnessed such a countdown for a new novel from a female writer as I have with Lorrie Moore’s A Gate at the Stairs.
Drunken Boat’s editor arrested, Lopate appreciates the under-appreciated, NYTBR on the MJ, and more.
Inglourious Basterds, stalagim, Eurabia-mongers, Don DeLillo’s Point Omega, and more.
Adam Kirsch dresses down Rich Cohen, Kurt Anderson examines the Obama zeitgeist, A.O. Scott laments the dumbing down of film, and more.
Thomas Pynchon’s Inherent Vice has similarities to The Big Lebowski, but what they really share is the influence of Raymond Chandler.
Greg Mortenson has touched the lives of countless children on the Pakistani-Afghan border.
