The New Inquiry announces that Ayesha Siddiqi, who recently left Buzzfeed Ideas, will be succeeding Rachel Rosenfelt as the online magazine’s new editor in chief.
The Supreme Court has refused an appeal by the New York Times reporter James Risen, who was subpoenaed to testify in a criminal case against a former CIA officer. Risen is resisting on the grounds that he has the right to protect his sources’ identities.
At the Guardian, James Camp explains BookCon: “BEA is for the book people: for three days, identified by booth or badge, they had sat or milled and done business, or seemed to. BookCon was for the people who like books. The idea was to interact.”
Two owners of the tiny Australian e-book publisher that originally published Fifty Shades of Grayare suing for a share in the profits.
Oliver Stone has announced that he will direct a movie adaptation of The Snowden Files. The movie about the NSA whistleblower will be in competition with another, similar project, No Place to Hide, adapted from Glenn Greenwald’s book on Snowden.
At the London Review of Books, Zoë Heller on Jennifer Senior’s book about parenting, All Joy and No Fun. Senior has limited her definition of parenthood to include the kind done by “American, middle-class, heterosexual, married” people, Heller points out. “She has deliberately excluded the poor because the problems they encounter as parents are hard to separate from their more general money problems. She has also left out the rich because they can afford to outsource the arduous or tedious parts of child-rearing.” But why has she left out single people? “Given that the marriage rate in the US is the lowest it’s been in more than a century and that in 2013 nearly half of the first-time births in the US were to unmarried women, her focus on the nuclear family seems a bit quaint.”