From CJR, Nicholas Lemann on the limits of clear language: Orwell worried about polluted language, but polluted information is more toxic. My Father the Communist: An interview with The New York Times' Andrew Rosenthal on Iraq, Times Select, and his father's secret past. A review of Regret The Error: How Media Mistakes Pollute The Press And Imperil Free Speech by Graid Silverman, and the website regrettheerror.com, which features the best, worst, and funniest of each day's corrections, clarifications, and editor's notes. Atlas Plugged! Indy publisher takes on spineless giants: Inspired by European publishers, renegade James Atlas hopes to sell books on his house's good name. The fall and rise of Downtown literature: The independent presses of the 70s and 80s that seemed to have vanished from New York may be making a return. You might think a channel dedicated entirely to books would be a good thing. You would be wrong. The pleasures of rereading: There's nothing more comforting than going back to a favourite book. You bought a bad book, you wasted time reading it: Justice demands redress, doesn't it? More and more on Pierre Bayard's How to Talk About Books You Haven’t Read.
