By choosing it as its word of the year, Oxford University Press has ushered in "refudiate" — the much-debated combination of "refute" and "repudiate" made famous by Sarah Palin — to our commonly accepted lexicon.
"From a strictly lexical interpretation of the different contexts in which Palin has used 'refudiate,' we have concluded that neither Read More
“When I met Ben many, many years ago, the first thing he told me was about Clarice,” said Dutch novelist Arthur Japin. “I don’t know if it was our first date, but it might have been.”Mr. Japin was talking about his partner Benjamin Moser, the “New Books” columnist for Harper’s and the author of Why Read More
Felix Gillette talks to Newsweek International editor Fareed Zakaria, whose CNN show GPS, "unlike most Sunday public affairs programs such as Meet the Press and This Week, GPS set out to lure political leaders and thinkers onto the show from outside the Beltway and outside America."
John Koblin reports that New York Times publisher Read More
First: two Oxford Daily Show appearances, with The Least Worst Place author Karen Greenberg on Feb. 4 and Two Billion Cars author Daniel Read More
