New Yorker music critic Alex Ross has just been named the winner of this year's Guardian First Book Award, for his kaleidoscopic music history tome The Rest is Noise. The prize is worth a cool ... Read More »

A lopsided Sierpinski gasket. David Foster Wallace discussing his then recently published breakthrough Infinite Jest, in a 1996 interview with radio host Michael Silverblatt. No city I know, certainly not New York, has this variety ... Read More »

Publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt has temporarily suspended acquisitions of new manuscripts, according to a report in The New York Times. The company, which was formed by Houghton Mifflin Riverdeep's $4 billion takeover of Harcourt in ... Read More »

A man named Taichi Takashita has started a campaign to force the Japanese government to legally recognize wedded unions between humans and comic book characters. More than 1,000 people have signed their names to this ... Read More »