publishing
Why women write essays—and sell lots of books
Women writers turned an unfashionable genre into the publishing trend of 2014
Toronto Book Fair: Who needs bricks and mortar?
When the Toronto International Book Fair opens this week, it will take writers directly to readers
Nate Silver and the future of media
Colby Cosh on the Sports Guy and the Witch
Your e-reader is watching
It tracks when you read and when you don’t. Will it soon determine what you read?
Still going by the book
Textbooks remain costly in an increasingly electronic age
The misfortune of an interesting life
Salman Rushdie spent almost a decade in hiding after Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa against him
Where have all the novels gone?
2009 was a bumper crop for fall fiction. This year, the big names are in short supply.
The Dreyfus Affair: A century-old controversy resonates today
Why the publishing business is suddenly hot for a 19th-century scandal
No Dummies here
How the ‘For Dummies’ book empire is branching out and thriving in the age of Wikipedia and blogs
Where all the news is good news
ZoomNB, a free monthly dedicated to reporting good news only
Too late for him maybe, but . . .
MARK STEYN: At least Conrad Black has succeeded in rolling back the ‘criminalization of business’
Conrad Black’s final battle
A stunning U.S. Supreme Court ruling has cast his conviction into doubt. Can Black’s lawyers turn it into a vindication that would see him walk free?