The New York Times will provide headlines and short article summaries—with emojis—to the Apple Watch.
Emily St. John Mandel’s novel Station Eleven has defeated Anthony Doerr’s All the Light We Cannot See in the Morning News’s Tournament of Books final. One of the judges, Victor Lavalle, says of the two books: “Both risk looking foolishly hopeful, about love or art, and they’re infinitely better for it. It was, finally, a question of scale that solidified my decision. Somehow a small slice of the apocalypse left me feeling fuller than a large serving of a world at war.”
Colson Whitehead reflects on tautological expressions (“Haters gonna hate,” “it is what it is,” or, a classic from God to Moses: “I am that I am”), finding the truest expression of our culture in the emblematic “You do you.”
The conservative magazine National Review is becoming a nonprofit organization. “"Most similar publications—from Commentary on the right to Mother Jones on the left—are nonprofits, a reflection of the fact that publishing a serious opinion magazine has never been a profitable business, and never will be," editor Rich Lowry told Politico’s Dylan Byers. "We are just changing in keeping with the industry standard."
In the wake of Cablevision’s offer to buy the Daily News for one dollar, Gawker special projects editor Alex Pareene writes a letter to the paper’s publisher, Mortimer Zuckerman, asking to buy the tabloid for five thousand dollars, a Gawker hoodie, two Amazon gift cards, and a couple of scratch-off tickets.
Rachel Kushner, the author of The Flamethrowers, has been named guest director of the Telluride Film Festival.
