Recode editor at large Kara Swisher is joining the New York Times as an opinion contributor. “The power and influence of the tech companies is among the most important and complex stories of our era, and we are very excited at the prospect of having Kara bring her experience, intellect and courage to bear for Times readers,” the company said in a statement.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie talks to Vulture about raising children, feminism, and Philip Roth. “There was a humanity in Philip Roth’s work that is often overlooked when we talk about his misogyny. I read his women and roll my eyes but there

The New Republic reflects on Barnes & Noble’s recent firing of its chief executive Demos Parneros, the company’s fourth CEO in five years. Once the “most disruptive company in publishing,” B&N has been long a high-profile failure, with store closings, sluggish Nook sales, and diminishing revenue. Some argue that the company, still important to the US publishing community, is “too big to fail.” But the company is currently dealing with many hard-to-solve problems, including its own “chaos.”

The Bookseller is excited about The Wall, the forthcoming novel by John Lanchester, the novelist (Capital

Former Fox News co-president Bill Shine has officially joined the Trump administration as a presidential assistant and deputy communications chief of staff. “The loudest voices opposing Shine’s appointment are not coming from progressive activists and women’s groups,” notes BuzzFeed News. “They’re coming from within the conservative media world.”

Lauren O’Neill-Butler talks to philosopher and artist Adrian Piper about the intersection of her two fields, resisting oppression, and consciousness.

“Our reach is so much greater, but people’s attention span is so much shorter,” says Priscilla Gilman

The 2018 Caine Prize for African Writing has been awarded to Makena Onjerika for her short story “Fanta Blackcurrant. A graduate of New York University’s MFA program, Onjerika now lives in Kenya where she is working on a novel.

At Granta, Sheila Heti and Tao Lin interview each other about their books, chemical detoxing, and the difficulties of writing. “When I was younger I sort of resented that just writing wasn’t enough – that it also had to be completed to be an object of use for the world,” said Heti. “But now I think that it doesn’t even serve any internal function for myself if I don’t

In response to the Nobel Prize’s hiatus due to sexual misconduct at the Swedish Academy, The Guardian reports that “more than 100 Swedish writers, actors, journalists and other cultural figures have formed the New Academy, which will hand out its own award this autumn.” In a statement, the group explained that they founded the organization “to remind people that literature and culture at large should promote democracy, transparency, empathy and respect, without privilege, bias, arrogance or sexism.” The prize will be awarded in December, and the group will disband afterward.

Atlantic Media is

Joy Press, author of Stealing the Show: How Women Are Revolutionizing Television, has written a new piece for Vanity Fair about novelists’ shifting attitudes toward writing for TV. They used to scoff at the prospect, but now most writers dream of writing for the small screen. “If you eavesdrop on any gathering of serious writers, they’re as likely to be discussing Killing Eve or Better Call Saul as they are the latest book by Zadie Smith or Rachel Kushner,” Press writes. “Even the University of Iowa is launching TV-writing programs this fall.”

In the UK, the Society of Authors has issued a

On Thursday, Jarrod Warren Ramos open fired in the newsroom of the Capital Gazette in Annapolis Maryland, killing five people. Soon after, the publication’s official account tweeted, “Yes, we’re putting out a damn paper tomorrow.” In today’s edition, the opinion page is left almost entirely blank, and the Gazette has published remembrances of the five victims: Rob Hiaasen, Gerald Fischman, John McNamara, Wendi Winters, and Rebecca Smith.

A biography of Anthony Bourdain will be published in fall 2019. Bourdain: The Oral Biography will be edited by Laurie Woolever, who collaborated often with

Literary Hub talks to poet Tommy Pico about karaoke, plants, and Feed, his recently-recorded soundscape for the High Line in Manhattan. Pico says that he saw the collaboration “as one of reconciliation”—”reconciling ‘nature’ with ‘the city,’ the city’s past with the park’s future.” Pico also had a more personal reason to be interested in the project. “I just so happened to be reconciling with an ex with whom I’d had many, many dates at the park itself,” he explained. “Just vibes all around.”

Lauretta Charlton has been named editor of the New York Times Race/Related team. Charlton was most

Actor and comedian Michael Ian Black is working on a book about masculinity. A Better Man, which will be published by Algonquin Books in 2019, is “a radical plea for rethinking masculinity and teaching young men to give and receive love.”

At Slate, Lili Loofbourow looks at the ways men accused of misconduct use their public apologies to pardon themselves for their behavior, while disregarding the feelings of the women they’ve harmed. “If women have a hard time accepting apologies, or declaring a public reckoning over, it may not be because they’re vengeful grudge holders but because they’ve

At the Village Voice, Donna Minkowitz reflects on her reporting on the 1993 murder of Brandon Teena, and the editorial decisions that she now regrets twenty-five years later. “For years, I have wanted to apologize for what I now understand, with some shame, was the article’s implicit anti-trans framing,” she writes. “Even in New York City, someone like me, a journalist who considered myself very involved in queer radical politics, could be massively ignorant about what it meant to be transgender.”

After BuzzFeed announced plans to close their Paris office, BuzzFeed France staff have voted for

Amazon stock fell more than a percentage point after the Supreme Court overturned a 1992 ruling that has allowed internet retailers to forego collecting sales taxes. The American Bookseller Association celebrated the Supreme Court decision, which feels that the older tax laws gave online booksellers an unfair advantage over small brick-and-mortar stores. “Today’s ruling represents a tremendous victory for independent booksellers and for indie retailers throughout the country,” said the ABA’s CEO, Oren Teicher.

At Vogue, Bridget Read learns everything she can about the TV adaptation of Elena

The New Jim Crow author Michelle Alexander is joining the New York Times Opinion section. In a statement, editorial page editor James Bennet called Alexander “a powerful writer, a fierce advocate for a more just world and a deep believer in open-minded, searching debate over how to achieve it.”

America Ferrera is editing an anthology of essays “about the experience of growing up between cultures in America. American Like Me: Reflections on Life Between Cultures—which features pieces by Roxane Gay, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Issa Rae, Jenny Zhang, among others—will be published by Gallery Books next