Editor’s Note: Steve LeVine, author of the book Putin’s Labyrinth, has asked to reply to the review of his book by Stephen Boykewich that appears in our Winter 2009 issue. His response is printed in its entirety below.
On April 2, President...
The unsustainability of organic farming, modern-day slavery among tomato pickers, the invention of the cocktail, two new books of poetry, and more.
A new installment in the VQR Poetry Series, Oxford American gets a bailout, and more.
Why is Janet Maslin concerned with how “hot” a writer is?
Print on demand becomes viable, reviews of cookbooks, an obscenely bad book, and more.
Move along with them—discover some literary podcasts.
Works of literature on the Palestinian/Israeli conflict—four from the Palestinians, four from the Israelis, and one in between.
Rediscovered articles from our archives, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, and more.
Book covers do matter. There’s a whole blog dedicated to the topic.
E-books have been getting a lot of press recently. But why you would want to pay $400 for something no smaller, no lighter, and no easier to read than a paperback?