Books

What the Book Section Likes

Freddie deBoer / Truthdig Jan 10, 2025 Publishing isn’t dying, but book media — narrow, conventional, status-obsessed — needs critical review. Dig deeper ( 10 Min. Read )

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Novelizations Have Risen From the Grave

Jim Knipfel / Truthdig Oct 31, 2024 A small horror publisher re-animates literature’s most terrifying and despised monster. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

Labor

HarperCollins Strike Dispatch

Rye White / N+1 Dec 5, 2022 Publishing has long been an industry guilty of exploiting the nebulous quality that bosses like to call “passion.” Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )

Labor

The Culture Workers Go On Strike

Alissa Quart / Economic Hardship Reporting Project Dec 2, 2022 Cultural and academic workers would seem to benefit from disruptions of business, including the formation of new unions and strikes by existing ones. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

Newspaper Publisher McClatchy Files for Bankruptcy Protection

MICHELLE CHAPMAN / The Associated Press Feb 13, 2020 Its 30 newsrooms will continue to operate as it reorganizes in a tumultuous industry; the publicly traded company is expected to go private. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Donald Trump Jr. Is Actually Laughing

Jacob Bacharach / Truthdig Nov 12, 2019 “Triggered” may be padded out and borderline unreadable, but it nonetheless offers a revealing glimpse at the president’s namesake. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

BuzzFeed Is Plotting an Aggressive New Media Merger

Ilana Novick Nov 19, 2018 In a grim media landscape, at least one CEO believes the only way to make money is to band together. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Adam Parfrey, an Uncompromising Rebel

Bill Boyarsky / Truthdig May 17, 2018 The founder and proprietor of the Feral House publishing company, who died May 10, was one of America's most courageous and unconventional publishers. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Ursula K. Le Guin’s Warning on the Dangers of Capitalism (Video)

Natasha Hakimi Zapata / Truthdig Jan 24, 2018 "We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings," the science fiction writer said in a 2014 speech. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

BuzzFeed Dumps Ad Deal With Republican National Committee Over Donald Trump

Staff / Truthdig Jun 9, 2016 Jonah Peretti, the media company’s CEO, said Trump’s presidential campaign is akin to cigarette ads—“hazardous to our health.” Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Charlie Hebdo Will No Longer Draw Muhammad Cartoons

Roisin Davis / Truthdig Jul 19, 2015 Six months after the Paris attack that claimed the lives of 12 staff members, the French magazine’s editor says it will no longer feature satirical cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad. "We've done our job," he said. "We have defended the right to caricature." Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Over Half a Century After ‘To Kill a Mockingbird,’ Harper Lee Plans to Publish Second Novel

Natasha Hakimi Zapata / Truthdig Feb 3, 2015 The new book takes place 20 years after the events described in the 1960 best-seller. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )