Count me among those who would much rather hold a book in my hand as I read, pen at the ready, rather than clicking through glowing text on a screen.
Posted 04.30.2012
The publication rates for men versus women in some of the world's most prestigious literary outlets are in, and the disparity is drastic. VIDA, an...
Margaret Wheeler Johnson | Posted 04.20.2012
I thought after the Great Jonathan Franzen Debacle of 2001, no man would ever again dare to suggest publicly that there is an inferior class of books that only women read.
Pamela Sage Dodson | Posted 01.28.2012
There was apparently a lot going in the French-owned Sofitel Hotel just before and after Strauss-Kahn was arrested.
Nina Sankovitch | Posted 01.17.2012
Blue Nights is the story of Joan Didion's craving for communion between the "I" of her individual event of loss and grief, and the "we" of its universal experience.
Steve Kettmann | Posted 01.16.2012
If a call came tomorrow and you were asked to take over as editor of the Times Book Review, what, if any, changes would you make?
Warren Adler | Posted 01.08.2012
Through the years, even when I left New York for decades, I continued to read the Times on Sundays, then every day when technology made it possible.
Carla Seaquist | Posted 10.26.2011
Where is the recognition that a "book of raunch," rather than reflecting a mature and vibrant culture, is symptomatic of one in steep, full-on decline, drunk on its power and narcissism (including Baker's pet vice, sexual titillation)?
nytimes.com | Posted 10.18.2011
THE place of comic books at the cultural supper table has never been more secure. Summertime films have come to mean superhero movies. Comics-related ...
Warren Adler | Posted 10.08.2011
I have always been wary of novelists reviewing other novelists, especially in places that attract serious readers of serious novels like the Ne...
The Daily Beast | Posted 07.13.2011
In the age of rapid digital revolution in publishing, when readers have book review options ranging from decades-old publications like The New Yorker,...
Peter Dreier | Posted 07.09.2011
If conservatives don't like labor unions, they are entitled to their opinions. But when they attack unions by arguing that they actually hurt working people, they don't have the facts on their side. They are crying wolf.
The Atlantic | Posted 06.20.2011
Today's authors can't rely on the merit of their pages. Literary coverage has grown, but reaching readers is as difficult as ever....
Ilana Teitelbaum | Posted 06.16.2011
Ginia Bellafante's piece in the Times is openly, even proudly contemptuous of the entire fantasy genre, and -- perhaps worst of all -- is patronizing to women readers.
Monica Edinger | Posted 06.14.2011
Her children are a "built-in focus group," especially her oldest who will examine the books she brings home and occasionally suggest that Pamela "bring this one back to the office."
Anis Shivani | Posted 05.28.2011
This week, the New York Times goes behind a paywall. Good riddance. The section that will be least missed is the book review, which presents, week after week, calculated affronts to literary taste and value.
David Colbert | Posted 05.25.2011
Great publishers are everywhere. Lookout Books, a new one connected with the University of North Carolina at Wilmington's Creative Writing Department, is winning national attention for its first title.
nytimes.com | The EDITORS | Posted 05.25.2011
We live in the age of opinion -- offered instantly, effusively and in increasingly strident tones. Much of it goes by the name of criticism, and in ...
Joe Woodward | Posted 05.25.2011
Writing biography is a scandalous enterprise; its penciled craftsman is perennially suspect for being neither art-maker, nor historian, nor critic -- but some simple version of all three.
The Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011
"How I Killed Pluto: And Why It Had It Coming" by Mike Brown The New York Times But Dr. Brown has a unique distinction: He was, for a few hours in 2...
Bella DePaulo | Posted 05.25.2011
We do not honor a remarkable friendship by proclaiming that it has "all the best qualities of the happiest and most resilient marriages." We honor it by recognizing that it is its own special thing.
Robert Brustein | Posted 05.25.2011
In the Sunday, October 31st publication of the New York Times Book Review, the singer-composer, Paul Simon, wrote a front page review of a book by the...
Lev Raphael | Posted 05.25.2011
For as long as I can remember, I was a monogamous reader. I'd start a book and read it straight through no matter how much time that took. Now I'm a book slut.
Nina Burleigh | Posted 05.25.2011
How can it be 2010, and the premier chronicler of American family dynamics in our generation producing this retro, cautionary tale about the dreadful consequences of female lust? And then, being called a genius for it?
The New Republic | Posted 05.25.2011
The author of minimalist short stories, Davis would seem an unlikely match for Flaubert, with his love of metaphor and obsession with detail. In compa...
Steve Kettmann | Posted 05.20.2012