Archive - Book Post

Review: Michael Robbins on Nordic Noir

A thriller-reader goes out in the cold

Dec 18

Notebook: (2) Small Biz

by Ann Kjellberg, editor Will the next four years see constraints on the tech behemoths that shape our information environment or a liberation of them…

Dec 16 •

Notebook: (1) Small Biz

by Ann Kjellberg, editor. While one hand enjoins readers to shop local, the other empowers Big Tech and assaults on the economy of ideas

Dec 15 •

Review: Sarah Ruden on Pat Barker

Refreshing update of the classics, or wishful betrayal of the past?

Dec 11

Diary: Kathryn Davis, Bardo

Reading Joy Williams’s story, “Chicken Hill"

Dec 8

Winter Partner Bookseller! Community Bookstore and Terrace Books in Brooklyn

Walkable streets, strong neighborhoods, a durable sense of shared purpose: What a bookstore feeds on and gives back

Dec 4 •

Give Book Post for the holidays! Book Post, Book Bag, Book Mug

This holiday season, give your family member or friend a gift that is a doorway to the reading life.

Dec 2 •

November 2024

Diary: Barry Yourgrau, Kyoichi Tsuzuki, Chronicler of mess

An anthropologist and archivist of populist “low” culture—a radically open-hearted and democratic but acutely discerning advocate, preservationist, and…

Nov 24

Review: Jesse Donaldson on Foxfire’s Appalachia

Revisiting our post on the political uses of nostalgia

Nov 20

Notebook: Libraries and the Election

by Ann Kjellberg, editor Are we fighting over the First Amendment, or something more?

Nov 17 •

Review: Irena Grudzińska Gross on Displaced Persons

Several million displaced East Europeans were resettled at the end of World War II. How did that happen?

Nov 13

Guest Notebook: Roland Allen on the Birth of the Notebook

How the humble notebook greased the wheels of learning and literature

Nov 10

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