Culture
What The New Yorker Was Reading in 1925
Several months before the first issue of The New Yorker appeared, Harold Ross’s fund-raising prospectus promised, along with much else,…
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News
Sotomayor Rips SCOTUS for Causing Total “Chaos” in LGBTQ Books Case
Justice Sonia Sotomayor excoriated the nation’s highest judiciary Friday for ruling 6–3 to permit a group of Maryland parents to withdraw…
News
Supreme Court Sides With Homophobes on LGBTQ Books in Schools
Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” is so wildly unpopular that even Fox anchors have started bashing it. Fox Business host Liz Claman…
News
5 books about AI to get you caught up in 2025
The AI landscape is evolving rapidly and it’s important to keep up. No one can afford to stay out of the loop on AI, so here are five new…
Celebrity
It’s Global Beatles Day! Here’s the Best Beatles Books and Merch to Gift the Fab Four Fan in Your Life
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Business
Are Young People Having Enough Sex?
The virgin allegations emerged about a decade ago. Young people “are so sexually inactive that it practically boggles the mind,” a writer…
Fashion
Virgil Abloh’s Career and Cultural Impact Detailed in Robin Givhan’s New Book
Although fashion can typecast designers, Virgil Abloh’s agility in complexity and his ability to not just build community, but also guide…
Business
Romantasy: Why it's happily ever after for romance books
Inside London's first romance-only bookshop, Sarah Maxwell stands in the "smut hut" – a section dedicated to her store's more erotic…
Culture
‘Jaws’ – the Movie and the Book – Still Anchor Wendy Benchley’s Life
For millions, “Jaws” mania never really waned, and no one knows that better than Wendy Benchley, whose late husband Peter wrote the 1974…
Culture
So You Want to Be a Genius
Let’s say there’s another pandemic. This time, a lethal disease spreads through contact with other people’s fecal matter. Precision toilet…
Lifestyle
Summer Books and Authors on Full Display in Air Mail’s NYC Store
Knowing that summer reads are as essential as sunscreen this time of year, FSG and Air Mail teamed up Wednesday night to turn up the heat…
Lifestyle
‘Walking Alongside’ American Designer Claire McCardell in New Book
“Good fashion earns its right to be remembered.” Those words weren’t just spoken by Claire McCardell, but she lived up to them too.…
Culture
What Did the Pop Culture of the Two-Thousands Do to Millennial Women?
“Girl on Girl,” by the critic Sophie Gilbert, is the latest and most ambitious in a series of consciousness-raising-style reappraisals of…
Culture
The Wizard Behind Hollywood’s Golden Age
How Irving Thalberg helped turn M-G-M into the world’s most famous movie studio—and gave the film business a new sense of artistry and…
Business
Amazon cuts more jobs, this time in books division
Amazon has cut jobs in its books division, including at its Goodreads review site and Kindle units, the company said on Thursday. The…
Culture
What We Get Wrong About Violent Crime
Late on a Sunday night in June of 2023, a woman named Carlishia Hood and her fourteen-year-old son, an honor student, pulled into Maxwell…
Celebrity
Sarah Jessica Parker Said She Reads Two Books a Day: Here’s What’s on Her Summer Reading List
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Business
Books on the ultrarich dominate the Modern CEO summer reading list
Hello and welcome to Modern CEO! I’m Stephanie Mehta, CEO and chief content officer of Mansueto Ventures. Each week this newsletter…
News
William F. Buckley, Jr., and the Invention of American Conservatism
National Review embraced Goldwater. Bozell ghostwrote his campaign book, “The Conscience of a Conservative,” a hit with college students.…
Culture
In ‘Great Black Hope,’ Rob Franklin Explores Class, Race and the Dark Underbelly of New York Glamour in Bold Debut Novel
The opening pages of Rob Franklin’s debut novel, “Great Black Hope,” take readers into the thick of late-night Hamptons debauchery. It’s…
Business
I read more than 100 books last year as a working mom. You can, too
A year ago, I started reading again. I say “again” because, like the countless friends and colleagues I’ve spoken to who have also found…
News
How Barry Diller Stayed on Top
Throughout, Diller occasionally muses on the excellence of a script—“Raiders of the Lost Ark” was, he says, “perfect from the first…
Culture
Robert Macfarlane on Books That Hold Water
The writer and scholar Robert Macfarlane has spent much of his life climbing up mountains and fishing on rivers, and his passion for each…