Jun
1
2010
The Importance of Paper
The Millions interviews Melissa Klug with the Permanence Matters Initiative.
May
18
2010
Hipsters Everywhere
Over at The Millions Bill Morris lays out the sites and books that hilariously chronicle the hipster scene — the links in this article kept me laughing all afternoon.
Dec
4
2009
The Millions Asks Authors What They’ve Been Reading This Year
The online journal’s A Year in Reading series picks from some great authors like, Jonathan Lethem, Mark Sarvas, Philip Lopate and Stephen Dodson.
Apr
29
2009
The Future of Book Coverage
The Milions has a very in depth and insightful look at how print criticism got into the mess that it’s in. What makes their take different from the other half dozen articles and blog posts that come out on the subject each week? They look at some of the pre-Internet criticisms of newspaper book coverage, explore how some individuals have carved out a niche for criticism on the Web and speculate how online coverage might develop a reliable revenue stream in the future. Check out their three part series:
- The Future of Book Coverage, Part I: R.I.P., NYT?
- The Future of Book Coverage, Part II: Amazon.com and the Revenue Question
- The Future of Book Coverage, Part III: The Kindle Land Grab
Recommended Reading
- Review: Reason Faith and Revolution
February 1, 2010 | 7:57 pmReason, Faith, and Revolution: Reflections on the God Debate (The Terry Lectures Series)
Terry Eagleton
Yale University Press, 2009
If fundamentalism is as Terry Eagleton claims a “failure of the imagination,” Reason, Faith, and Revolution is his attempt to show how religion’s liberal opponents and their ultra-rationalist arguments have suffered the same intellectual failures as those that they [...] - Survival Supervivencia Review
May 7, 2009 | 2:00 pmToday the Avenues of A, B and C are full of sushi restaurants, cafes and bars that serve martinis for double digit prices. It is a far cry from the place that Miguel Algarin grew up in and remained in. The neighborhood still has its charm that separates it completely from the rest of the [...]
- The Accordionist’s Son
March 30, 2009 | 8:40 amIn The Accordionist’s Son, Bernardo Atxaga brings the horrors of recent history to light without diminishing the mysteriously foreign and beautiful world that he has created. And it is another world that Atxaga has created, so particular in the details of both the land and its inhabitants that it feels organic like few fictional worlds [...]
- The Gone-Away World
March 14, 2009 | 5:48 pmNick Harkaway’s debut novel, The Gone-Away World, brings magical realism to the post apocalyptic genre. A well written vision for futurists and luddites alike.
- The Enchantress of Florence
March 14, 2009 | 5:29 pmIn the The Enchantress of Florence: A Novel Salman Rushdie continues to explore his interest in how the supernatural can be brought to life through the power of storytelling. However, he does so without the grandiosely experimental postmodernism of his earlier works.
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