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by Ann Kjellberg, editor   From Facebook Files whistleblower Frances Haugen's disclosures emerges an almost Shakespearean story of hubris, denial, and …
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by Ann Kjellberg, editor    What Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen's revelations portend for journalism and ideas.
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Sally Rooney in "Beautiful World, Where Are You" seems to have pulled off the feat of resurrecting the 18th-century philosophical tale, developed espec…
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The youngest of 10 children, Dad had come to New York City when he was 17 rom a small black college campus in Raleigh, NC, where he’d been born. His ab…
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"The Tale of Plagues and Carnivals" began quite baldly as a response to the AIDS crisis back in 1983. The judgment of the crisis was not that I must re…
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The year may have been 1999 and it happened while rambling around the aisles of the bookstore Politics and Prose. José Emilio Pacheco—then the celebrit…
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Early in a 1977 interview, Jorge Luis Borges told William F. Buckley, Jr., “Personally I wouldn’t mind being executed. In fact, I think I would welcome…
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A book fair with a local bookseller keeps resources in a community, cultivates relationships with trusted and passionate advisors, and tailors selectio…
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by Ann Kjellberg, editor    When I set out to celebrate our return to in-person classrooms with a post on school book fairs, I had no idea the level of…
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Colm Toíbín once remarked that Thomas Mann was gay “most of the time.” When he wasn’t, he fathered six children with his wife Katia. The first was Erik…
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My disenchantment with the ambition industry and the violence of professional success had brought me here. My hopelessly romantic need to live like a t…
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Why have hermits and thinkers gone to the forest to surrender to its stillness? There is a connection between forest life and creativity, whether spiri…
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