Ars Technica

I just bought the only physical encyclopedia still in print, and I regret nothing

These days, many of us live online, where machine-generated content has begun to pollute the Internet with misinformation and noise. At a time when it’s hard to know what information to trust, I felt ...
The New Yorker

The Death of Book World

In April of 2023, when I was fresh out of a Ph.D. program in philosophy, I was hired as the nonfiction critic at the newly revived books section of the Washington Post. The shock to my system was ...
NPR

Readers say goodbye to Book World from 'The Washington Post'

Where do you look for good books to read these days, besides NPR, of course? But where else do you go for reviews or recommendations? The Washington Post's Book World used to be one of those spaces ...
The New York Times

A Wake for The Washington Post’s Books Section

Literary and cultural denizens of the nation’s capital gathered on Saturday to eulogize The Post’s scuppered Book World supplement. By Joumana Khatib Reporting from Washington, D.C. Hundreds gathered ...