Recent Blog Entries

Does Every Book Deserve a Review?

Jacob Silverman

275,232 books were published in the US last year. Don't publications have an obligation to review only those books that warrant serious consideration?

Hopeful News from Iran

Ted Genoways

Iason Athanasiadis to be released "in the next few hours."

The Sorrows of Young Jacko

Michael Lukas

What does the King of Pop have in common with the main character of an 18th century German novel? Quite a lot, in fact.

Link Roundup: Plagiarism Addressed in Issues Past

Waldo Jaquith

The topic has come up in our pages regularly over the years.

Seduced by the Blurb

Mandy Redig

Turning my inner bibliophile loose in a four-story bookstore is an invitation for disaster.

The New Ludditism in Literature

Jacob Silverman

There must be a terminal velocity, be it the end of Moore’s Law or the end of our productivity, to the concomitant diminishment of our attention spans and the progression of our technology.

Chris Anderson’s Free Contains Apparent Plagiarism

Waldo Jaquith

We have discovered more than a half dozen passages in the forthcoming book that are reproduced nearly verbatim from uncredited sources.

The Death of the American Trial

Mandy Redig

Despite popular perceptions of the jury trial, this most central feature of the American legal system is actually slowly disappearing.

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