A Publishing Merger Denied, and More

For now, the Big Five of publishing will remain the Big Five.

No merger after all between Penguin Random House and Simon & Schuster. For now, the Big Five of publishing will remain the Big Five... more »

The relationship between musicians and critics ranges from affable to antagonistic to utterly bizarre... more »

Apocalypticism, millenarianism, eschatology — the end times come in many versions. Ours might be the mo…