One of the nine things I admire about Matthew P. Brown’s The Novel and the Blank: A Literary History of the Book Trades in Eighteenth-Century British America is how he makes printed ephemera—legal forms, manuals, advertisements, militia directions, almanacs, jestbooks—seem as interesting as novels.

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The ruling deems the government's termination of grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities "unlawful" and allows a lawsuit brought by humanities groups to move forward.

Massive encroachment by Bezos into The Washington Post’s opinion section - makes clear dissenting views will not be published I still have not felt encroachment on my journalism on the news side, but if Bezos tries interfering with the news side I will be quitting immediately and letting you know