Jason Epstein launched the trade paperback format in the US in 1952 as a young editor at Doubleday. In 1963 he was a founder of The New York Review and in 1979 cofounder with the late Edmund Wilson of the Library of America. In 2007 he cofounded On Demand Books. Among his many awards are the National Book Award Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, the Lifetime Achievement Award of the National Book Critics Circle, and the Curtis Benjamin Award given by the American Association of Publishers for enriching the world of books. (February 2011)
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The Specter of Nuclear Drones
October 27, 2011
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Books: Onward to the Digital Revolution
February 10, 2011
Merchants of Culture: The Publishing Business in the Twenty-First Century
by John B. Thompson
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A World War Truce Without a Victory?
April 8, 2010
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Where China Failed
March 25, 2010
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Publishing: The Revolutionary Future
March 11, 2010
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New York: The Prophet
August 13, 2009
Wrestling with Moses: How Jane Jacobs Took on New York’s Master Builder and Transformed the American City
by Anthony Flint
Genius of Common Sense: Jane Jacobs and the Story of The Death and Life of Great American Cities
by Glenna Lang and Marjory Wunsch
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The Big Food Menace
May 15, 2008
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A New Way to Think About Eating
March 20, 2008
In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto
by Michael Pollan
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Norman Mailer (1923–2007)
December 20, 2007
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Hurry Up Please It’s Time
March 15, 2007
Bomb Scare: The History and Future of Nuclear Weapons
by Joseph Cirincione
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‘Books @ Google’
November 30, 2006
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Books@Google
October 19, 2006
Google and the Myth of Universal Knowledge: A View from Europe
by Jean-Noël Jeanneney,translated from the French by Teresa Lavender Fagan
The Search: How Google and Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business and Transformed Our Culture
by John Battelle
The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business Is Selling Less of More
by Chris Anderson
Libraries and Google
edited by William Millerand Rita M. Pellen
The Google Story: Inside the Hottest Business, Media, and Technology Success of Our Time
by David A. Vise and Mark Malseed
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Eating Out
June 8, 2006
Heat: An Amateur’s Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany
by Bill Buford
My Life in France
by Julia Child, with Alex Prud'homme
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Jane Jacobs, 1916–2006
May 25, 2006
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Mystery in the Heartland
October 7, 2004
What’s the Matter with Kansas? How Conservatives Won the Heart of America
by Thomas Frank
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Leviathan
May 1, 2003
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Up with Downtown
December 19, 2002
A New Deal for New York
by Mike Wallace
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Reading: The Digital Future
July 5, 2001
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The Coming Revolution
November 2, 2000
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Stalingrad, cont’d.
May 25, 2000
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The Rattle of Pebbles
April 27, 2000
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The Stalingrad Front
April 13, 2000
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‘Time to Kill’
March 9, 2000
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Always Time to Kill
November 4, 1999
Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege, 1942-1943 by Antony Beevor
Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland by Christopher R. Browning
Zhukov’s Greatest Defeat: The Red Army’s Epic Disaster in Operation Mars, 1942
by David M. Glantz, with German translations by Mary E. Glantz
An Intimate History of Killing: Face-to-Face Killing in Twentieth-Century Warfare by Joanna Bourke
The Sorrow of War: A Novel of North Vietnam by Bao Ninh
Hitler, 1889-1936: Hubris by Ian Kershaw
Hitler’s Army: Soldiers, Nazis, and War in the Third Reich
by Omer Bartov
The Iliad by Homer, translated by Robert Fagles
The First World War by John Keegan
The Pity of War by Niall Ferguson
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Prophet
March 5, 1998
Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde a play written and directed by Moisés Kaufman. at the Minetta Lane Theater, New York City
The Trials of Oscar Wilde: Deviance, Morality, and Late-Victorian Society by Michael S. Foldy
Oscar Wilde’s Last Stand: Decadence, Conspiracy, and the Most Outrageous Trial of the Century by Philip Hoare
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V. S. Pritchett, 1900–1997
April 24, 1997
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No Laffer Matter
April 10, 1997
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White Mischief
October 17, 1996
Up from Conservatism: Why the Right is Wrong for America by Michael Lind
The World Turned Right Side Up: A history of the Conservative Ascendancy in America by Godfrey Hodgson
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Metropolitan Life
November 16, 1995
The Encyclopedia of New York City edited by Kenneth T. Jackson
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The Man with Qualities
June 8, 1995
Edmund Wilson: A Biography by Jeffrey Meyers
From the Uncollected Edmund Wilson selected and introduced by Janet Groth, by David Castronovo
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A Dissent on ‘Schindler’s List’
April 21, 1994
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‘How New York Fell’: An Exchange
June 11, 1992
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The Tragical History of New York
April 9, 1992
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The Decline and Rise of Publishing
March 1, 1990
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Edmund Wilson at Ease
October 9, 1986
The Fifties: From Notebooks and Diaries of the Period by Edmund Wilson, edited with an introduction by Leon Edel
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Handle with Felt Gloves
April 24, 1986
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Going for Broke
September 23, 1982
The Coming Boom: Economic, Political, and Social by Herman Kahn
The Imperious Economy by David P. Calleo
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Is the Party Over?
October 23, 1980
Friendly Fascism: The New Face of Power in America by Bertram Gross
Crisis Investing: Opportunities and Profits in the Coming Great Depression by Douglas R. Casey
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Help!
February 21, 1980
How to Prosper During the Coming Bad Years by Howard J. Ruff
The Pritikin Program for Diet and Exercise by Nathan Pritikin, by Patrick M. McGrady Jr.
The Complete Scarsdale Medical Diet
by Herman Tarnower, by Samm Sinclair Baker
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Capitalism & Socialism: Declining Returns
February 17, 1977
The Twilight of Capitalism by Michael Harrington
The Unseen Revolution: How Pension Fund Socialism Came to America by Peter F. Drucker
“The Falling Share of Profits,” by William D. Nordhaus. in Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, edited by Arthur M. Okun, by George L. Perry
Equality and Efficiency: The Big Trade-off by Arthur M. Okun
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The Last Days of New York
February 19, 1976
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The Big Freeze
December 13, 1973
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What Price Growth?
May 17, 1973
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Can We Afford Sliced Eggplant?
April 5, 1973
The Retreat from Riches: Affluence and Its Enemies by Peter Passell, by Leonard Ross
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The Missionary
November 2, 1972
Henry Luce by William Swanberg
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E. W. 1895–1972
July 20, 1972
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Peace Evening
April 22, 1971
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Radical Chic
March 11, 1971
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Journal du Voyeur
December 17, 1970
Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers by Tom Wolfe
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The Chicago Conspiracy Trial: Allen Ginsberg on the Stand
February 12, 1970
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A Special Supplement: The Trial of Bobby Seale
December 4, 1969
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Publishing in Spain
July 10, 1969
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Mayer Culpa
May 8, 1969
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Dropped Lines
April 10, 1969
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The Real McCoy
March 13, 1969
The Teachers Strike: New York, 1968 by Martin Mayer
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The Ocean Hill Battle
January 16, 1969
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The Issue at Ocean Hill
November 21, 1968
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The Brooklyn Dodgers
October 10, 1968
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The Politics of School Decentralization
June 6, 1968
Reconnection for Learning: A Community School System for New York City York City Schools; McGeorge Bundy, chairman
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Violence in Oakland
May 9, 1968
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Regis Debray
July 13, 1967
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The CIA and the Intellectuals
April 20, 1967
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Living in New York
January 6, 1966
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I Got Plenty o’ Money
July 1, 1965
The Rockefeller Billions by Jules Abels
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The New Education
December 31, 1964
The New Curricula edited by Robert W. Heath
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Letters
October 22, 1964
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Epstein’s English Usage
July 9, 1964
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Looking Backward
June 11, 1964
The Privacy Invaders by Myron Brenton
The Naked Society by Vance Packard
What Is Conservatism? edited by Frank S. Meyer
The Conservative Papers Introduction by Representative Melvin Laird
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The Literary Life
June 11, 1964
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Wilson’s Amerika
November 28, 1963
The Cold War and the Income Tax: A Protest
by Edmund Wilson
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More on Dr. Yes
November 28, 1963
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I’m All Right, Jack
November 14, 1963
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Dr. Yes
October 31, 1963
The First New Nation by S.M. Lipset
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Wasteland
September 26, 1963
Night Comes to the Cumberlands by Harry Caudill
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New Editions
February 1, 1963
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon, edited by J.B. Bury
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How Books Will Survive Amazon
April 26, 2012
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Jane Jacobs & the Republican Radicals
March 30, 2012