Amazon Books: Making the Digital Physical

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Amazon Books: Making the Digital Physical

On May 25, 2017, the doors officially opened at the new Amazon Books store in Columbus Circle in New York. Another store on 34th Street is expected to open this summer. In November 2015, Amazon — the world’s largest online retailer — opened its first brick-and-mortar bookstore in Seattle. It was an unexpected twist for company that had built its empire by selling books (and now everything else) online. LSP visited the latest Amazon Books venue, located in the city that's ostensibly the heart of America's publishing industry, just days after it opened its doors.

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A memoirist, and a freedom fighter, visits New York

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A memoirist, and a freedom fighter, visits New York

In his lifetime, Saadi Yacef has been many things: a freedom fighter; a prisoner; a memoirist; a senator; and a film producer.  As the military leader of the National Liberation Front in Algiers, Yacef was a key actor in one of the bloodiest decolonization wars of the 20th century and his memoir was adapted into the iconic 1966 film The Battle of Algiers. LSP recently interviewed Yacef at the Film Forum in New York.

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Waxing Lyrical on Bob Dylan

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Waxing Lyrical on Bob Dylan

Waking up yesterday to the news that the champion of a rebellious yet subtle poetic vernacular had been recognized as one of the greatest writers of our time, suddenly overshadowed everything else: beauty, music and complexity had prevailed.

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On Bob Dylan’s Blonde On Blonde

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On Bob Dylan’s Blonde On Blonde

Whatever you think of the smoke-filled-room politics of the Nobel, it’s hard to deny the cultural significance of Dylan’s work. His songwriting is at the crossroads of the major cultural currents of the 20th century.

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