A blog by any other name

May 17, 2012 | 1

The New Yorker announced that their literary blog, The Book Bench, will henceforth be called Page-Turner. The name change signals a “building on the work of the Book Bench blog, and expanding on it.” In an inaugural post, Ryan Bloom translates the deceptively simple first line of The Stranger.

is an intern for The Millions. He is currently studying English and Russian at Columbia University.