The architect Zaha Hadid is suing the New York Review of Books for libel in response to an article by the critic Martin Filler. The article quotes her incorrectly, in such a way that implies that Hadid ignored the deaths of construction workers on a building in Qatar she designed. The building in question was not yet under construction; NYRB "regrets the error."

Robert Hass has won the Wallace Stevens award, which comes with a $100,000 cash prize.

The National Book Foundation will collaborate with NPR's Morning Edition to reveal the 2014 National Book Awards finalists on October 15th.

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Michael Brown has been buried in St. Louis. In Monday’s funeral service, attended by Al Sharpton and Spike Lee, Brown’s family members memorialized the teenager. The eighteen-year-old unarmed black teenager was shot and killed by police officer Darren Wilson in Ferguson, a suburb of St. Louis, on August 9, sparking outrage and protests across the nation. Yesterday, the New York Times public editor apologized for reporter John Eligon’s having called Brown “no angel” in a recent story: "That choice of words was a regrettable mistake. In saying that the 18-year-old Michael Brown was 'no angel'...The

At the New Yorker, Elif Batuman explains what’s wrong with comparing Ferguson and Iraq.

Why did Buzzfeed’s Jeremy Singer-Vine use Github to post the data he used in an article about Jefferson and St Louis-area segregation? “As journalists marshall more data than ever, collect it from a wider range of sources, and analyze it in increasingly complex ways, it’s important (and interesting!) to be transparent about those processes.”

At Salon, Molly Fischer boldly urges the New York Times Book Review to kill its Bookends column. “It’s not just the stiff phrasing (‘What should we make of this?’ ‘

Afghanistan expelled New York Times journalist Matthew Rosenberg, and then issued a statement calling Rosenberg’s recent article about an electoral crisis in the country “more of an espionage act than a journalistic work, one that was meant to create panic and disruption in people’s minds, and provide the basis for other spying purposes.” As the Times reports, the Afghan government was apparently “infuriated” by Rosenberg’s reporting on the possibility of “forming an interim governing committee” as a way of handling the crisis—“a step that would amount to a coup.”

At the New Inquiry, a defense

The second part of a series by NPR’s Lynn Neary, on diversity in the writing world, has aired. Publishing is “overwhelmingly white,” the writer Daniel José Older says. “That's not a controversial fact, but sometimes to point it out becomes a controversial thing.” Publishing companies often say that they would publish books by more diverse writers if there were a market for them. It’s not that there isn’t a market, says poet Ken Chen, it’s that publishers can’t “imagine” it: “That's not just about a company corporate diversity policy; it's about actually knowing what's going on in communities

Journalists in Ferguson are “learning as they go,” writes Paul Farhi for the Washington Post: “It’s not just the rioters you have to worry about, say reporters; the authorities can be difficult—and dangerous—too.” You don’t say! Something Farhi might consider learning himself is not to use the term “rioters” to describe impassioned protesters facing a hostile police force. As one of Farhi's own sources, Wesley Lowery, points out, during “ninety percent” of the time he has spent in Ferguson, the threat has been not from protesters but from the police.

Facebook has been fairly useless for

The 2014 Hugo Awards, which honor science fiction, have been announced. The award for best novel goes to Ancillary Justice, by Ann Leckie (Orbit US / Orbit UK). This year Hugo nominees were more likely to be women and people of color than has historically been true, the Daily Dot reports.

The Telegraph profiles Jennifer Weiner, who complains that she was “devastated” when she heard that Jennifer Egan had advised women not to write chick lit. About Lena Dunham, who has said that she loathed “airport chick lit,” Weiner says, “I’m sure she has just no clue that these books she’s reviled may have

Al Gore has sued Al Jazeera, claiming that the news provider, owned by the Qatari Royal family, has failed to pay the full amount agreed upon in the purchase of Gore’s network, Current TV.

Medium, the website of “stories and ideas” and serious journalism founded by Twitter cofounder Ev Williams, has announced that it will make public its followers and what articles they read at the site. “Medium is in a grey area between platform and publishing,” Selena Larson writes, and goes on to argue that revealing what people read is an infringement on readers’ sense of privacy and curiosity.

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Anonymous promised to ID the cop who killed unarmed, eighteen-year-old Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, last Saturday. Then they outed the wrong man. In response, Twitter silenced @TheAnonMessage, the account that tweeted the false information.

At a McDonald’s in Ferguson, a SWAT team assaulted and arrested two reporters—Wesley Lowery of the Washington Post and Ryan Reilly of the Huffington Post—trying to cover the story of the Brown shooting, then released both without charges or paperwork and without providing the names of the officers involved. Representatives from both news outlets

The Associated Press reports that on Wednesday, an AP video journalist, Simone Camilli, and a Palestinian translator, Ali Shehda Abu Afash, were killed in Gaza.

In its cover story this month, Wired calls Edward Snowden the most wanted man in the world.

The LARB talks to the classicist and wonderful critic Mary Beard, whose most recent book, Laughter in Ancient Rome, came out in July. Beard has been unruffled by (classy about?) the negative attention she’s received in Britain for something entirely unrelated to her formidable career: appearing on television with undyed hair. “It’s not like

The much-maligned app Yo—which allows users to say “Yo” to one another—should not be dismissed as a novelty, the Wall Street Journal says. When the app’s monosyllabic greeting pops up in your smartphone’s notifications tray (and a tiny voice repeats the word) the app is exploiting push notifications, “the most valuable property in the entire media universe, considering how often the average smartphone owner glances at his or her phone.” Future iterations of Yo will allow users to send links along with the greeting and to connect the app to RSS feeds. Soon, “every blogger, website and media

Maureen Dowd has been named a staff writer at the New York Times Magazine. She will continue to write her op-ed column for the Sunday edition of the paper.

In June, Publisher’s Weekly reported that Hachette had acquired Perseus Books. But now, according to a letter sent out to Perseus employees, the deal has been canceled.

At the Times, David Carr devotes his column to the recent decisions by Gannett, the Tribune Company, and E.W. Scripps to spin off their newspaper properties. The optimism people felt for print media when Jeff Bezos bought the Washington Post is now pretty much gone, Carr