Random House imprint One World has announced that it will release two new books—one fiction, and one nonfiction—by Ta-Nehisi Coates. 

Daniel Harris—whose books include The Rise and Fall of Gay Culture and Cute, Quaint, and Romantic: The Aesthetics of Consumerism—has outraged many readers with his essay “The Sacred Androgen: The Transgender Debate,” published in the Winter issue of the Antioch Review. “While I fervently support TGs’ rights to transition and to do so without fear of reprisal,” Harris writes, “I believe that the whole phenomenon of switching one’s gender is a mass delusion.”

Jeff Sharlet, the author of C Street: The Fundamentalist Threat to American Democracy and Sweet Heaven When I Die: Faith, Faithlessness, and the Country in Between, has been covering right-wing movements in the US for years, so he knows what he’s talking about when he writes, of Donald Trump’s rise to become the Republican candidate, that “this is so much worse than most people understand.” In an article for Esquire, he gives thirteen reasons that most people are “underestimating the problem.”

The winners of this year’s Best Translated Book Awards have been announced. Mexican author Yuri

In its most recent quarterly report, the New York Times announced that it now has 1.4 million digital-only subscribers. The paper has gained 67,000 digital subscribers since the beginning of 2016.

We were deeply entertained by the breadth of the index of cultural critic Chuck Klosterman’s forthcoming book, What If We’re Wrong: Thinking About the Present as if It Were the Past, which will be published in June. Skimming the A and B entries, we found: ABBA, AC/DC, Renata Adler, Aristotle, Jane Austen, Ballers, Baudrillard, the Bee Gees, blogging, Napoleon Bonaparte, and Budweiser. 

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Gawker’s tax returns for 2011 through 2013 were recently unsealed as part of Hulk Hogan’s invasion-of-privacy lawsuit against the company, in which a Florida court awarded Hogan $140 million. Tax records show that the company’s largest expense has been employee salaries. But another expense—fees sent to Gawker’s sister company in Hungary—have led Hogan’s lawyers to suggest that the company is “hiding money overseas.” Meanwhile, Hogan is suing Gawker again—not, this time, for releasing one of his private sex tapes, but for “allegedly leaking sealed court documents to the National Enquirer that

Former Grantland writer Jonathan Abrams—whose books include Boys Among Men: How the Prep-to-Pro Generation Redefined the NBA and Sparked a Basketball Revolution—has announced that he is at work on an oral history of the TV show The Wire.

Don DeLillo, whose Zero K was published last week, granted a rare interview to Los Angeles Times writer Carolyn Kellogg. “I’m not sure how a sentence or a paragraph extends itself,” he says of his writing. “I can’t say it’s automatic, but it all seems to happen in a kind of intuitive way.” If you’re in New York, you can see him live tonight: He will be making

The New York Times and its CEO Mark Thompson have been hit with a class-action lawsuit that alleges “deplorable discrimination” in matters of hiring and pay. Claiming that “not only does the Times have an ideal customer (young, white, wealthy), but also an ideal staffer (young, white, unencumbered with a family),” the suit takes particular aim at Thompson, who while head of the BBC was also forced to address concerns about the treatment of older women, and who is accused of bringing “his misogynistic and ageist attitudes across the Atlantic to New York City.”

The poet Claudia Rankine, author

Writer Jenny Diski died this morning at the age of sixty-eight. She was the author of numerous books, including Skating to Antarctica: A Journey to the End of the World, The Sixties, and What I Don't Know about Animals. Her book In Gratitude is scheduled for release later this month. Diski had been writing a cancer diary for the London Review of Books since 2014, when she learned of her diagnosis. The LRB has made all of her work for the magazine—more than two-hundred articles dating back to 1992—freely available. As Giles Harvey writes in his moving profile of Diski from last year, she was

Paramount Television has purchased the rights to adapt Rebecca Traister’s book All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation, which was published in March by Simon & Schuster. Traister will be the TV series’s executive producer.

Longreads has posted an interview with Jillian Keenan, whose new book, Sex with Shakespeare, combines meditations on her love of the Bard with memoiristic passages about the fetish community and her penchant for spanking.

The New Republic has named Eric Bates as the editor who will “lead the day-to-day editorial operations across the

Gannett, the conglomerate that owns USA Today and many other media companies, has submitted a bid for $815 million to buy Tribune Publishing, which owns the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune, and nine other daily papers. According to the New York Times, Tribune has been “shy” and “coy” in its response to the bid. As Andrew Ross Sorkin writes, “Instead of Tribune’s board popping champagne corks and shouting Hallelujah, it told Gannett, astonishingly, in effect: ‘Wait. We’re not sure we want to do that and, actually, we’re not sure we even want to talk to you about it.’”

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reluctant to rely on its say-so alone.” But this doesn’t seem like a paradox so much as a difference in approach and standards. Being more than “quite reliable” takes a little more time (and often a verified source).

Authors Rob Sheffield (Love Is a Mix Tape), Michaelangelo Matos (The Underground Is Massive), and Carl Wilson (Let’s Talk about Love) celebrate the genius of Prince.

At the Washington Post, Alyssa Rosenberg mourns the loss of Prince, who died yesterday aged fifty-seven, and cites his 2007 appearance at the Super Bowl, “this particular worship service dedicated to traditional masculinity,” as an argument for “a vastly huger range of possible ways for a man to command the nation.” Rosenberg also reminds us of Hilton Als’s great “paean 2 Prince,” from a 2012 issue of Harper’s. It’s not yet clear how far the star had gotten with his memoir, which he’d recently announced he was writing with the help of the Paris Review’s Dan Piepenbring (“a good critic. . . .

The winners of this year’s Lambda Literary Awards, which honor excellence in LGBT literature, include Eileen Myles and Hilton Als. At the June 6th ceremony, winners in twenty-five categories will be announced by a stellar cast of writers, performers, and activists including actor Cherry Jones (who played a Myles-like character on Transparent), editor Tavi Gevinson, comedienne Kate Clinton, and many other stars. 

The New York Timesaccompanied Bret Easton Ellis on a night out to see the Broadway musical version of his novel American Psycho. After some initial trepidation, Ellis appeared to enjoy