18+ hour, 19+ min ago   (443+ words) Piker, best known for arguing that "America deserved 9/11," was positively defiant earlier this month when Abdul El-Sayed narrowly won the Democratic U.S. Senate primary in Michigan. He scoffed at the idea that El-Sayed should adopt a conciliatory approach to the establishment…...

2+ day, 6+ hour ago   (880+ words) My first encounter with a literary agent was in 1970, the year I worked in publishing for Quadrangle-New York Times Books. The agent was a man named Georges Borchardt. I was seeking the rights to publish a collection of the highbrow…...

2+ day, 6+ hour ago   (722+ words) There's a word for what it's like to become a mother, matrescence, which describes the way a woman's brain and body reorient themselves around providing comfort, sustenance, and safety for a newborn child. There is no word for what happens…...

2+ day, 6+ hour ago   (725+ words) There's a mini-vogue in publishing now not so much for group biographies (how very 2019!) but for histories that take two apparently contrasted dynasties or individuals and then tease out their parallels, as well as their differences. Following on from Carol…...

4+ day, 17+ hour ago   (259+ words) Judge Richard Stearns, who in August of 2024 found that "Harvard failed its Jewish students," has dismissed a different antisemitism lawsuit filed in March 2026 by the federal government against Harvard. The decision is a legal win for Harvard, but it does…...

4+ day, 23+ hour ago   (208+ words) Days after an eruption of condemnations over an issue of New York magazine that repeatedly and falsely accused Israel of genocide and that describes the Jewish state as "the land mass currently called Israel," the magazine’s leadership has finally offered…...

5+ day, 17+ hour ago   (242+ words) Eighty-two-year-old Nina Totenberg had the 2026 prize for most embarrassingly false Supreme Court coverage published in a legacy media outlet nearly wrapped up with her June NPR report claiming, incorrectly, that Justice Alito had retired. Yet Thomas Friedman’s insatiable appetite for…...

5+ day, 18+ hour ago   (1030+ words) Simon & Schuster is doubling down on publishing a notoriously Jew-hating writer, with a top editor issuing a statement that denounced antisemitism but also said that the publisher's plans to reissue two books by the writer, Susan Abulhawa—who refers to…...

5+ day, 18+ hour ago   (472+ words) In the interest of empirical inquiry, we've compiled a handy list of the behaviors a majority of Democratic primary voters have deemed acceptable, along with those they couldn't tolerate. It is our best attempt to establish the outer limits of…...

6+ day, 1+ hour ago   (589+ words) Abdul El-Sayed has quietly embraced the nakedly antisemitic Nation of Islam during his Senate campaign, meeting with two lieutenants of the group's leader, Louis Farrakhan, who themselves have railed against "the Jews," the Washington Free Beacon found. His fundamentalist religious…...