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Forest for the Trees

From his letter from the editor in the September 2024 issue of Reportagen. Translated from the German by Oscar Dorr. Dear Readers, “You’re killing trees!” runs an accusation often leveled…

Bound and Galleyed

by Jamie Fewery,

From “Whips and Chains,” which appeared in Issue 11 of The Fence. Back in February 2012, when I was a newly minted marketing executive at Random House U.K., I was…

Publish or Perish

From game play of Small Press Tycoon, a publishing industry simulation game released this year by Inpatient Press. The player begins the game with $1,000 and answers a series of…

Publisher’s Letter

by John R. MacArthur,

When I began my tenure as publisher of Harper’s Magazine nearly thirty years ago, my biggest challenge — or so I thought at the time — was to get advertising…

Beyond the Book

by Mark Kingwell,

By Mark Kingwell, from a keynote speech delivered in May at the annual meeting of the Writers’ Union of Canada and published in the Ottawa Citizen. Kingwell is a professor…