Book Review: Tevi Troy's 'The Power and the Money' November 25, 2024
Jeff Bezos’s purchase of the Washington Post in 2013 may not have been his best business acquisition, but it still arguably rates among his best acquisitions. Precisely due to Amazon’s stupendous growth borne of a remarkable business that much of the...
Taylor Swift Is Coming for Book Publishing November 19, 2024
As a journalist covering the publishing industry and a devoted Taylor Swift fan who flew to Amsterdam this past summer to experience the Eras Tour, I took to the recent announcement of Taylor Swift | The Eras Tour Book like a moth to the glowing orbs...
Reclaiming Ted Hughes November 19, 2024
Before preparing this essay, I began where many Americans seem hesitant to tread: with the poetry. I read and reread every poem I could find by Ted Hughes, as well as the slender oeuvre of Sylvia Plath, taking notes and contemplating both deeply. I r...
How Media Is Failing Young Men November 18, 2024
Are young men … OK? That’s a question that seems to be on many a mind these days as conversations about gender, sexuality, and what it means to be a “man” reach a fever pitch in the media and beyond. A large part of that discourse revolves around an ...
Stuck in Reverse November 14, 2024
Nearly every element of every thing produced by a modern economy rides on a truck at some point in its life. As a result, trucking touches every industry in America, leaving truckers at the forefront of the nation’s economic turmoil over many decades...
Quincy Jones Remembered As a ‘Titan’ Across Hollywood November 05, 2024
The entertainment industry is mourning the loss of Quincy Jones, the music producer known for his work with icons including Michael Jackson and Frank Sinatra. Jones’s publicist informed the world of his death, at the age of 91, on November 3. “Tonigh...
Surveillance Stasis: New York Film Festival November 04, 2024
In order to attend press screenings at the New York Film Festival, you have to scan in your ID badge. These badges are color-coded, with orange and red representing high value members of the industry and press who always get in; the rest of us greens...