Kory Stamper shows us her ‘True Color’
A secret history of the spectrum includes accounts of its words, its heroes, and its battles
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A Dozen Books You Need to Know About for November 2025
In November’s big holiday bonanza: Atwood, Obama, Rushdie, and McCartney lead the charge
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Elegy for the Publishing Industry
Recent wave of editorial layoffs reminds us that the book world we loved is gone
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Federal Judge Blocks Penguin Random House/Simon & Schuster Merger
Will authors benefit? Could a breakup of Amazon’s publishing monopoly be next?
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Publishing Professionals Issue Orwellian ‘Dissent’ Against Amy Coney Barrett Memoir
One of the most cowardly, wrongheaded, pathetic statements in American literary history
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Barnes and Noble Did Nothing Wrong
How a dopey “diversity initiative” ignited another round of book-banning
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