“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."
ACP taps Jack Illingworth to succeed outgoing executive director Kate Edwards
Illingworth will take up the reins at the ACP beginning March 1.
Former New York prosecutor under fire from two sides over the contents of his upcoming tell-all
Both author and publisher are defending the contents of the book and publication is scheduled to go ahead as planned.
In Lost in Canada, Lydia Perović reconsiders her adopted country’s status as a bastion of liberal democracy
Perović's ideal of Canadian nationalism based in universality and Enlightenment freedoms has always been chimerical.
Lucy Worsley’s new biography of Agatha Christie provides gossipy details of the writer’s life but is light on the work
Worsely resolutely refuses to provide any sustained analysis of the books themselves.
Journey Prize amends its practices by declaring all contributors to anthology “winners,” awarding each $1,000
The journals in which the stories originally appeared will receive $200 per published story in the anthology.