Fable and allegory combine in Victory City, Salman Rushdie’s masterful new novel
Victory City reads like a defiant rebuke to those who work to suppress words and ideas.
Indigo’s response to “cybersecurity incident” has been woefully inadequate
Indigo has little control over whether its system gets hacked. What it does have control over is how it responds to the situation.
ACP diversity in publishing survey finds improvements over time, except at the executive level
For those looking for reasons to be optimistic about issues of diversity in publishing, there are a few to be found in the 2022 report.
Indigo website remains down after “cybersecurity incident”
The company is working to "understand if customer data has been accessed."
Fail better: Stephen Marche on the one constant in a writer’s life
Failure is inevitable because perfection is unattainable.
“The best that is known and thought”: On rereading Matthew Arnold in 2023
Today, Arnold's ideas seem deeply unfashionable. They also seem pressingly relevant.
Laconic prose and a highly unreliable narrator characterize the first new novel from Bret Easton Ellis in more than a decade
The novel is about nothing so much as the nature of storytelling.
Still recovering from last year’s near-fatal public attack, Salman Rushdie releases new novel
The book's release seems like more than just the appearance of new work from a novelist regularly deemed one of the world's most important living writers.
In ominous signs for Big Five publishers, PRH CEO departs and HarperCollins moves to lay off 5% of its North American workforce
HarperCollins is also facing an ongoing strike by some 250 unionized employees.
DIY veteran Jim Munroe experiments with AI art for a short-run print edition of his latest novel, We Are Raccoons
"That kind of direct connection with readers and creators is probably the majority of why I make art in the first place."