Dreamers Rise

The founder and former publisher of Black Sparrow Press, John Martin, has died. The Times has a nice obit by Adam Nossiter, who can be forg...

At first glance this is a typical example of the kind of cheap fiction for adolescents that was popular in the early decades of the twentiet...

There's a curious disclaimer on the copyright page of the Dalkey Archive Press reprint of Vincent O. Carter's book about his experie...

Publishing pioneer Jason Epstein has died. At 93, he managed to outlive his obituarist , Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, who died in 2018. Eps...

City Lights Books has announced the death of its co-founder, the writer, bookseller, and publisher Lawrence Ferlinghetti, after an asto...

Until relatively recently, the availability of foreign-language reading material in the US was a bit hit-or-miss, unless you happened to liv...

Drue Heinz, the former publisher of Antaeus and the Paris Review , has died. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette has a lengthy obit . The past yea...

The pieces in this little volume have all been republished in subsequent collections of Bowles's stories, but I still prefer to read the...

Joseph Conrad: These handsome uniform editions of Joseph Conrad with introductions by Morton Dauwen Zabel were published by Anchor Books i...

As a rule I'm a sucker for loud, garish colors, the more the merrier, but the images below celebrate the lost, enforced virtues of tight...

In later years it would become just another literary magazine, albeit a very good one, but in its first decade there really was something sp...

James Laughlin started his career as publisher in 1936 with the first New Directions in Prose & Poetry, but in addition to the flagship...

The first edition of Julio Cortázar's novel Rayuela (Hopscotch) was published by Editorial Sudamericana in Buenos Aires in June 1963. D...