Are books getting bigger even as attention spans continue to shrink and sentence lengths shrivel? Well, maybe. Boris Kachka, for one, thinks…

We know attention spans have been shrinking for decades. It has something to do with television. It’s also been often observed…

We all know, now, how dangerous books can be. So dangerous they can’t even be read on a school bus in…

Opens online, that is. Which only makes sense because the Internet is the only place that could store Jorge Luis…

That’s the question Stephen Marche asks in a provocative essay at Partisan Magazine. It’s a long, thoughtful piece, with much…

In a story that might have been taken from The Onion, but which instead is reported by the CBC, a…

Over at the Washington Post, music critic Chris Richards asks why there is such a bland critical consensus surrounding the biggest…

Just as with most sectors of the economy, rich writers are getting richer and the rest are falling behind. At…

Over at the New York Review of Books, Tim Parks wonders whether we’ve reached a point where there are too…

Are paper books, the kind you don’t read on screens, making a comeback? Not quite, but . . . Public…