Has the Library of America jumped the shark? When volumes on “Rushmore-sized” authors such as Melville, Twain, and Faulkner give way to volumes on H. P. […]

Kindle or iPad. Apple vs. Google vs. Amazon. Will publishing — and bookstores, and libraries — perish? The diligent Ken Auletta tries to sort it all […]

A tiny press, an unknown author,  a compelling story carried to publication by word of mouth, and without a Facebook page! That’s how Paul Harding’s novel “Tinkers” […]

‘Romeo and Juliet’ has been reinvented as opera, ballet, musical,and ice show. What next? “Such Tweet Sorrow,” a  4,000-tweet drama staged in real time (five weeks!), created by a […]