March 18 – 22, 2019

• Christian Lorentzen on the state of book criticism.
• A writer cooks his way through Anthony Bourdain’s Les Halles Cookbook.
• Rediscovering Nelson Algren, blacklisted novelist.
• A profile of Miriam Toews.
• The story of the Stanley Rose Book Shop, a hotspot in 1930s L.A. for writers and artists.
• A UK commission called the Emilia Report found a “marked bias” toward male writers in media coverage.
• Tom Rosenstiel on why journalists are so rarely the heroes in political thrillers.