Today in books and publishing: Michiko Kakutani pans Zadie Smith's NW; revisiting Henry James; John Jeremiah Sullivan talks with The Guardian; Apple to sell government e-books.
Today in books and publishing: The New York Times' book reviewers are "outsiders"; dispatches from a Borders-less Ann Arbor; Hari Kunzru on American xenophilia; mapping Infinite Jest's Boston; E.L. James tops the charts.
Sometimes "enhanced interrogation" doesn't feel like torture until you see it happening to someone you can relate to.
Today in books and publishing: A possible sighting of the new Dave Eggers novel, to mark the release of his 63rd book, Vulture ranks the work of Stephen King, and Christopher Hitchens came up empty at this year's Orwell prize.
Since you weren't invited to last Friday's intellectually-studded memorial for Christopher Hitchens, Vanity Fair has posted video of the full event online.
Graydon Carter, Martin Amis, Salman Rushdie, and Sean Penn were all part of today's celebration in honoring one of the sharpest minds and eloquent writers of a generation.
In his final review for The Atlantic, Christopher Hitchens took on G.K. Chesterton biographer Ian Ker, saying the biographer misses the point of Chesterton's poetry.
Today in books: Christopher Hitchens final memoir will be published simultaneously in the U.K. and U.S., a modest proposal to help authors make more money, and the "Jefferson Bible" will be back in print next month.
The death of Christopher Hitchens last night, from complications from esophageal cancer at age 62, ended one of the great intellectual careers of the last 40 years.
Christopher Hitchens, the journalist, critic, and brilliant rhetorician, died Thursday, a year and a half after being diagnosed with esophageal cancer.
The Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg got an exclusive interview with the controversial filmmaker
The author parses the controversial 'Great Soul' biography in a new essay
On testing chemicals, a politician's crusade against Islam, and the value of one's voice
Take a look at this stirring Vanity Fair piece
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