Every year at the end of May, professionals of the publishing industry meet for three days at the Jacob Javits Center in New York for the biggest book trade event in North America. I had attended Book Expo America several years ago, but this year’s event signaled a deep change. If there was still any doubt that the Book is disappearing, this year’s BEA dispensed with any of it. About a third of the exhibit was dedicated to various electronic devices that are replacing print, and another third was children’s books. I have nothing against children’s books, but when all of them seem to participate in a contest of garishness for the most outrageous combination of colors, the esthetic model that is being set up is accountable for the bad taste of generations.
Articles by Daniela Hurezanu
Health Care Reform and Anti-Semitism
If you have been watching the health care “debate” you must be aware that it has turned into a grotesque contest on who can come up with the most outrageous Nazi comparison. This is not the first time, of course, that Hitler and Nazism have been used as props by those who, out of arguments, want to convince the other party that they are right. I used to just shrug my shoulders when faced with such people, but this time it’s different. Because now we are not dealing with some “fringe elementsԗnow we are dealing with a movement that is supported by the second most important party in this country, the GOP.
