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The Reforestation of American Civic Life: What Publishing Can Do in the Face of the Trump

The Reforestation of American Civic Life: What Publishing Can Do in the Face of the Trump

Part Three of Josh Cook’s Series on the Challenges We Face

By Josh Cook | March 21, 2025

What Publishing Can Do About Trump: Preserve the Independence of Our Bookstores and Libraries

What Publishing Can Do About Trump: Preserve the Independence of Our Bookstores and Libraries

“A just world starves fascism of the nutrients it needs to thrive.”

By Josh Cook | February 4, 2025

Trump 2.0: What the Book World Should Do Now

Trump 2.0: What the Book World Should Do Now

An Essay Series by Josh Cook on How We Should Respond to the New Administration

By Josh Cook | January 21, 2025

On the Bad Binary of

On the Bad Binary of "Good" and "Bad" Literature

Josh Cook on Taking Back the Idea of "Good Taste" from Cultural Authoritarians

By Josh Cook | August 23, 2023

Why Everyone Should Read the Great Karen Tei Yamashita

Why Everyone Should Read the Great Karen Tei Yamashita

Josh Cook on This Year’s Recipient of the National Book Foundations’s Literarian Award

By Josh Cook | September 17, 2021

How Booksellers Were Complicit in the Resurgence of White Supremacy and the Rise of Donald Trump

How Booksellers Were Complicit in the Resurgence of White Supremacy and the Rise of Donald Trump

Josh Cook Considers the Relationship Between Bookselling, Politics, and Free Speech

By Josh Cook | May 27, 2021

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Why it's bad when a bookstore's biggest competitor—Amazon—breaks a sales embargo.

By Josh Cook | September 4, 2019

When a Bookseller Has to Sell His Own Book

By Josh Cook | June 25, 2015