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Jason Epstein (1928–2022) was for nearly twenty years the Editorial Director at Random House, as well as a founder of The New York Review and of the Library of America. He was the author of dozens of essays and four books, including The Great Conspiracy Trial (1970) and Eating: A Memoir (2010). (February 2022)
Food Tips for Christmas
“Where the Weathermen blew up buildings and shot police officers, today’s radicals defy federal food laws, revel in unpasteurized milk, dine on fried grasshoppers, frog fallopian tubes, and Filipino balut.”
Anything That Moves: Renegade Chefs, Fearless Eaters, and the Making of a New American Food Culture
by Dana Goodyear
December 19, 2013 issue
The Realm of King Roger
Hothouse: The Art of Survival and the Survival of Art at America’s Most Celebrated Publishing House, Farrar, Straus & Giroux
by Boris Kachka
September 26, 2013 issue
Books: Onward to the Digital Revolution
Merchants of Culture: The Publishing Business in the Twenty-First Century
by John B. Thompson
February 10, 2011 issue
New York: The Prophet
“The war over the monstrous Lower Manhattan Expressway, a projected ten-lane elevated link...connecting the Holland Tunnel to the East River bridges, would be long and painful. Jacobs and the neighborhood coalition prevailed. But the nine-year struggle...convinced Jacobs that if she wanted to write other books she must leave New York.”
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
August 13, 2009 issue
A New Way to Think About Eating
In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
by Michael Pollan
March 20, 2008 issue
Hurry Up Please It’s Time
Bomb Scare: The History and Future of Nuclear Weapons
by Joseph Cirincione
March 15, 2007 issue
Books@Google
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
October 19, 2006 issue
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