3+ hour, 49+ min ago   (880+ words) My first encounter with a literary agent was in 1970, the year I worked in publishing for Quadrangle-New York Times Books. The agent was a man named Georges Borchardt. I was seeking the rights to publish a collection of the highbrow…...

3+ hour, 51+ min ago   (722+ words) There's a word for what it's like to become a mother, matrescence, which describes the way a woman's brain and body reorient themselves around providing comfort, sustenance, and safety for a newborn child. There is no word for what happens…...

3+ hour, 50+ min ago   (725+ words) There's a mini-vogue in publishing now not so much for group biographies (how very 2019!) but for histories that take two apparently contrasted dynasties or individuals and then tease out their parallels, as well as their differences. Following on from Carol…...

2+ day, 14+ hour ago   (259+ words) Judge Richard Stearns, who in August of 2024 found that "Harvard failed its Jewish students," has dismissed a different antisemitism lawsuit filed in March 2026 by the federal government against Harvard. The decision is a legal win for Harvard, but it does…...

2+ day, 15+ hour ago   (720+ words) Simon & Schuster's partnership with a notorious antisemite who regularly calls Jews "roaches," "demons," and "ghouls" is deeper than previously reported. Susan Abulhawa—who has projected the medieval bile for years on her X account—announced in a defiant video that…...

2+ day, 15+ hour ago   (320+ words) The family of a 15-year-old American girl who was killed in one of the most high-profile terrorist attacks in Israel's history is suing the Hamas operative who planned the operation in an American court for the first time, hoping to…...

2+ day, 20+ hour ago   (208+ words) Days after an eruption of condemnations over an issue of New York magazine that repeatedly and falsely accused Israel of genocide and that describes the Jewish state as "the land mass currently called Israel," the magazine’s leadership has finally offered…...

3+ day, 14+ hour ago   (242+ words) Eighty-two-year-old Nina Totenberg had the 2026 prize for most embarrassingly false Supreme Court coverage published in a legacy media outlet nearly wrapped up with her June NPR report claiming, incorrectly, that Justice Alito had retired. Yet Thomas Friedman’s insatiable appetite for…...

3+ day, 15+ hour ago   (1030+ words) Simon & Schuster is doubling down on publishing a notoriously Jew-hating writer, with a top editor issuing a statement that denounced antisemitism but also said that the publisher's plans to reissue two books by the writer, Susan Abulhawa—who refers to…...

3+ day, 15+ hour ago   (472+ words) In the interest of empirical inquiry, we've compiled a handy list of the behaviors a majority of Democratic primary voters have deemed acceptable, along with those they couldn't tolerate. It is our best attempt to establish the outer limits of…...