By Maria Bregman, writer, literary and art critic Pelted with herring, lampooned by editors, and ignored by Queen Victoria herself, William McGonagall became the worst…
By Sara Bright In July 2018, author Michelle Harrison discovered her own books on a piracy website called OceanOfPDF.com and did something that would reshape…
By Sara Bright On 12 December 2024, a small, unassuming volume in a faded red leather binding changed hands at Sotheby’s London for £576,000. The…
By Tessa Nolan When Karl Ove Knausgård published the final volume of My Struggle in 2011, he had done something few novelists dare attempt: laid…
The Book of Elsewhere: How Keanu Reeves and China Miéville Turned a Comic Book Into a Literary Event
By Tessa Nolan When Keanu Reeves announced on Good Morning America in January 2024 that he was co-authoring a novel with China Miéville, the literary…
By Maria Bregman, writer, literary and art critic In the early 1960s, Zoya Boguslavskaya already owned a perfectly structured, highly successful existence as an influential…
By Sara Bright On 8 June 1876, the Catholic Church refused George Sand a funeral. Thousands followed her coffin through the mud regardless. Victor Hugo,…
By Sara Bright The dust has finally settled. On 4 May 2026, Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni announced a settlement of their bitter legal dispute…
By Sara Bright The dead, it turns out, are extremely profitable. In September 2021, Netflix acquired the Roald Dahl Story Company for more than $700…
By Tessa Nolan When Whoopi Goldberg launched WhoopInk, a new publishing imprint with Blackstone Publishing, in early 2026, the announcement landed with the quiet confidence…