Recommended Listening: On NPR’s All Things Considered, Petra Mayer offers advice to “literature’s unpunished villains.”
When Good Doesn’t Win the Day
“The truth of poetry is not the truth of history”
Philip Levine is the current US Poet Laureate, and that's great, but wouldn't we all rather live in this alternate world fashioned by The Onion?
Tanenhaus—author, critic, masochist
Sam Tanenhaus, editor of the New York Times Book Review, talks to Noah Charney about his life, his work, and his taste in books. Answers are typical but insightful, with one incredibly colorful exception: Tanenhaus’s ideal workplace is bizarre. (Hint: The atmosphere falls somewhere between a nuclear fallout shelter and the kind of place you would keep a hostage and it’s nothing like where we write.)
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Amazon Releases Its Best 100 Books of 2012
Amazon is kicking off the year-end deluge of lists with its 100 best books of 2012.
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We at The Millions Now Trademark “Zuckerberg”
Sorry, everyone who works in publishing. Looks like it's time to call it quits. Per Facebook's new user agreement, the firm asserts trademark on the word "book."
English in India
Recommended reading: on the power of language and class, or, "How English Ruined Indian Literature."