Notable Articles

February 2, 2011

Judging Books by Their Covers: U.S. Vs. U.K. 48

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Book cover design is a strange exercise in which one attempts to distill iconic imagery from hundreds of pages of text.

February 1, 2011

Saving Salinger 21

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“The Last and Best of the Peter Pans” and “The Ocean Full of Bowling Balls” have never been published in the nearly sixty years since Salinger wrote them.  Princeton’s Firestone Library now protects the only known copies.

January 18, 2011

The Story Problem: 10 Thoughts on Academia’s Novel Crisis 71

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The rhythm of school is conducive to the writing of small things, not big things, and we don’t try hard enough to think beyond that rhythm because, for many of us, it’s the only rhythm we know.

January 3, 2011

Most Anticipated: The Great 2011 Book Preview 58

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8,000 words strong and encompassing 76 titles, it’s the only 2011 book preview you will ever need.

December 16, 2010

A Year in Marginalia: Sam Anderson 29

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It’s the most intimate, complete, and honest form of criticism possible.

December 12, 2010

A Year in Reading: Ed Champion (The 13 Most Underrated Books of 2010) 11

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2010 was a great year in books!  This was a hard list to assemble!