We're live at Brooklyn Book Fest today right next to our Litsy friends. Come say hi! #BKlovesLitsy

"Dissent and inconvenient information are kept within bounds and at the margins, so that while their presence shows that the system is not monolithic, they are not large enough to interfere unduly with the domination of the official agenda." We're revisiting Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky's 1988 classic, Manufacturing Consent, in light of this week's NY Mag media criticism feature.

A sliver of a preview of the spring cover and some of the books we crush on therein.

Tonight we joined Elle in kicking off Women's History Month with Rebecca Traister at The Cooper Union. Traister's phenomenal new book traces the rise of women's political and social power & pulls at the threads of its implications for the future.

We're currently enjoying the newest dispatch from the incomparable Sarah Schulman, utterer of the immortal gem, "You have to notice the truth in order to be able to avoid it."

Seeking a literary/musical wine-and-cheese pairing? We recommend Deepti Kapoor's milk-and-acid-tongued novel of womanhood in contemporary India with Wye Oak's perennially layered, candy-fisted Civilian.

"Perhaps the strange ones in the dome can lend us a book we can read up alone." Check out Bowie's 100 favorite books at davidbowie.com.

New year, new stack! We recommend these forthcoming gems as A+ nightstand contenders.

In Bookforum's holiday issue, novelist Lucy Ellmann recounts one of our favorite points from Gloria Steinem's new book: It IS a bit silly for women to stay at home when that's where they're statistically most likely to be murdered.

Need a book that intelligently speaks to the nostalgia cravings that plague us (and our waistlines) at the holidays? May we recommend...

As observed by Choire Sicha in our holiday issue, "There's seemingly a whole necessary category of book that is too smart to be exploitative, too wise to have pat solutions, and too distressing to recommend."