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Jill Lepore recalls the first time newspapers were dying, in 1765, after Parliament levied a stamp tax on every printed page in the colonies.
Jill Lepore recalls the first time newspapers were dying, in 1765, after Parliament levied a stamp tax on every printed page in the colonies.
Granta supplements its “Fathers” issue — which includes Lethem, Bechdel, & many more — with a brief piece from Jim Shepard.
The Times‘ Larry Rohter reports on the controversy that has erupted over the details of Roberto Bolaño’s life story. Bolaño himself fostered the idea, enthusiastically embraced by U.S. critics and readers, that he had a heroin habit. But his widow and agent dispute this detail, as do Latin American critics. Julio Ortega, a Peruvian scholar, charged in Spain’s leading daily . . .
Shocking — despite his age, he seemed somehow immortal — but John Updike has died after a battle with lung cancer. (Thanks, David.)