The New York Times

Did ‘The New York Times’ Just Forget About Salman Rushdie’s Memoir?

Yesterday, The New York Times published their always controversial, never comprehensive list of their picks for the 100 most “notable” books of 2012, chosen by the editors of the New York Times Book Review. We’ll save most of our quibbling for later, but we did notice one glaring omission — the space where… Read More

The Morning’s Top 5 Pop Culture Stories

1. R. Kelly’s epic hip-hop opera, Trapped in the Closet, is apparently going to be adapted as a Broadway musical. Also: There are 85 additional chapters in the series that Kelly hasn’t even debuted yet. [via Gawker]

2. If you happen to be visiting London over the next few weeks, James Franco will… Read More

Is There Racial Bias in the World of Book Reviews?

Earlier this year our literary editor Emily Temple posted about the depressing findings of VIDA’s latest survey of the publication rates for women vs. men in important literary outlets. Hoping to figure out where things stand for writers of color in publishing, Roxane Gay at The Rumpus decided to launch a… Read More

The Morning’s Top 5 Pop Culture Stories

1. Ladies and gentlemen, this just might be the funniest My Little Pony-related correction that The New York Times has ever issued. [via The Daily What]

2. Hot British actor of the moment Benedict Cumberbatch (who you might recognize from recent roles in War Horse or the BBC’s Sherlock) has come… Read More

What’s On at Flavorpill: The Links That Made the Rounds in Our Office

Today at Flavorpill, we filled our New Year’s Eve shopping list with selections from The Hairpin’s roundup of great champagnes that cost less than $13. We discovered which celebrities people would least like to have as neighbors — and agreed that The Situation would make a particularly awful addition to our… Read More

The Morning’s Top 5 Pop Culture Stories

1. Did you know that Shaquille O’Neal wants to be a film director? According to TMZ, he’s nearly done with his classes at the Filmmaking Conservatory at the New York Film Academy’s branch at Universal Studios Hollywood, and the school reports that he has been “incredibly humble, funny, and likable” as a student.… Read More

What's On at Flavorpill: The Links That Made the Rounds in Our Office

Today at Flavorpill, our eyes played tricks on us thanks to this crazy street art installation in Stockholm by illusionist artist Erik Johansson. We decided after some internal debate that we’d be happy to see Leonardo DiCaprio play a villain in a Quentin Tarantino movie. We were surprised to read that… Read More

This Week in Buzz

Editor’s note: Each Friday, our internet-savvy friends over at BuzzFeed curate a post for us that’s filled with links to some of their favorite items on the web that week. Enjoy!

This week, using Google Insights, we measured the regional interest in the term “hipster” and found out that Minnesota was the most hipster state in the US, just ahead of New York and Oregon. … Read More

Millennials Want Their Political News from Newspapers

So maybe the old Gray Lady and her pals have some life in them yet: According to a new study from the Harvard University Institute of Politics, 49 percent of the 3,018 18-to-29-year-olds surveyed (and a whopping 60 percent of college students) said that national newspapers were their preferred source of political news.… Read More

The (New) New York Times Magazine

Today we picked up our copy of the Sunday New York Times as usual (that’s right, we still like paper), and as promised, out fell the new redesign of The New York Times Magazine, a change they had announced last week. In the issue’s Editor’s Letter, Editor in Chief Hugo Lindgren explains, “Every tiny aspect of the redesign represents a decision we debated, sweated over and second-guessed until we ran out of time and had to send it off to the printer. But what you see here is not a new formula. It’s a beginning. Our aim is to make everything sharper, clearer, more alive and dynamic — while not altering the foundation of the magazine.” It’s true that the redesign has many nods to the future and stylistic changes while maintaining its focus on long-form journalism, but is it better? Click through for our thoughts and share your own! … Read More