Misleading anecdotes, flawed data, and oversimplified analyses are at the heart of a narrative of Jewish exclusion promoted by the free expression…

Author and documentary-maker best known for her 1999 book about CIA-funded cultural espionage Who Paid the Piper?

Perhaps the most anticipated collection of the year by an American poet isn’t yet available to Americans. The Poems of Sylvia Plath (Faber & Faber, 944pp,

In Big Fiction, author and Emory University professor Dan Sinykin examines how decades of mergers and acquisitions have transformed the publishing industry, and how those changes have shaped what i...

“In the matter of fans,” the Gotham Book Mart proclaimed in 1940, “you can only compare with a moving-picture star in Hollywood.” Even taking into

“In the matter of fans,” the Gotham Book Mart proclaimed in 1940, “you can only compare with a moving-picture star in Hollywood.” Even taking into

The website of the Bibliographical Society of America, a 501(c)(3) non-profit membership organization and learned Society devoted to the study of the material text.

Are you a drag performer in Pittsburgh who does "weird stuff" that you want to talk about? Have you ever dressed up like the Rachel Carson Bridge? What about the Duquesne Incline? We are looking for l...

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Father’s Day is my most important holiday of the year, for a pair of interconnected reasons that I’ll get into at the end of this thread. So I’m really excited to share my latest #ScholarSunday thread...

I write to you with news about the state of the English major at one nonelite, midsize, regional comprehensive private university in New York City. At

Balanced uneasily on the top of the bookshelves in my office are three over-stuffed banker’s boxes. Within, at least for now, are the seventy-five octavo

Balanced uneasily on the top of the bookshelves in my office are three over-stuffed banker’s boxes. Within, at least for now, are the seventy-five octavo

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Owners of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette said they have found a buyer who had agreed to keep the newspaper open, less than a month before it was due to shut down.

An insightful biography of an unassuming literary scholar—and spy—who transformed postwar American culture. Although his impact on twentieth-century American cultural life was profound, few people kno...

7 March 2026On Friday, 6 March 2026, the MLA, American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), and American Historical Association (AHA) filed a motion for summary judgment in our case seeking to reverse...

Malcolm Cowley championed Jack Kerouac and Ken Kesey—and elevated the status of American writing.