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A Bipartisan Schools Movement Graduation at Motlow State Community College in Tullahoma, Tenn.Credit...Joe Buglewicz for The New York Times April 28, 2021, 6:22 a.m. ET Over the past decade, an idea has become popular with mayors and governors, both Democratic and Republican: A K-12 education is no longer enough. Students should start school earlier than kindergarten, according to this view, both to help families with child care and to provide children with early learning. And students should s...

“Sunshine is the best disinfectant” is a maxim dear to the hearts of journalists, including my first boss, the late editor Doug Ernst. We make a living by exercising the privileges granted by the First Amendment, Doug used to say. He lived for the thrill of dragging a shadowy taxpayer-funded boondoggle or a corrupt public official into the light of public scrutiny. So what happens when that impulse to expose, to publish, to tell the whole ugly story, runs up against the current moveme...

Courtesy of W.W. Norton & Company Blake Bailey’s “Philip Roth.” It wasn’t the one about what he had to say to critics who suggested his biography of Roth was marred by deep misogyny. Bailey — whose book has been permanently pulled from print by his publisher, W.W. Norton, after multiple women came forward with allegations of rape and sexual assault against him — might reasonably have been wary about that topic. It was about, instead, whether he had taken anything from Philip Roth’...

Publisher Pulls Philip Roth Bio, Cuts Ties With Author Accused of Sexual Harassment and Assault 28 Apr 2021 NEW YORK (AP) — The publisher of a highly anticipated and widely discussed biography of Philip Roth is pulling the book and cutting ties with author Blake Bailey, who faces multiple allegations of sexual harassment and assault. W.W. Norton and Company previously released Bailey’s memoir “The Splendid Things We Planned.” “Norton is permanently putting out of print our editions of...

Blake Bailey with an account from Valentina Rice, a 47-year-old publishing executive who alleges Bailey raped her in 2015 while they were both staying at the home of Times book critic Dwight Garner. The story raised eyebrows, and not just because W.W. Norton, Bailey’s publisher, had halted the shipping of the long-awaited book in response to the allegations leveled against the author by Rice and several former students (Bailey denies any wrongdoing). It was particularly striking thatÂ�...

Publisher pulls Philip Roth bio, cuts ties with author By HILLEL ITALIEApril 27, 2021 GMT This cover image released by W.W. Norton shows "Philip Roth: The Biography," by Blake Bailey. (W.W. Norton via AP) This cover image released by W.W. Norton shows "Philip Roth: The Biography," by Blake Bailey. (W.W. Norton via AP) NEW YORK (AP) — The publisher of a highly anticipated and widely debated biography of Philip Roth is pulling the book and cutting ties with author Blake Bailey, who faces multi...

Norton Takes Philip Roth Biography Out of Print The publisher also said it would make a donation to sexual abuse organizations equal to the advance it paid Blake Bailey, the author accused of sexual assault. Blake Bailey, the author of “Philip Roth: The Biography,” has been accused of sexually assaulting two women. His publisher said it would take the book out of print.Credit...Allen J. Schaben/Los Angeles Times, via Getty Images April 27, 2021Updated 5:42 p.m. ET W.W. Norton said in a memo...

This was the first I’d heard about what the email termed the “recent developments surrounding Blake Bailey”. But it took just two key strokes to learn that several women have come forward with extremely disturbing allegations about the biographer. These range from accounts of reckless behavior with female students he’d taught in a New Orleans junior high school (dirty jokes, encouraging girls to write about their sex lives) to more recent and highly believable accusations of rape. No ch...

The New Yorker: Philip Roth has not had much luck with biographers. Late in his life, furiously aggrieved after the failure of his marriage to the actress Claire Bloom and the publication of Bloom’s incendiary memoir of their years together, he asked a close friend, Ross Miller, an English professor at the University of Connecticut, to take on the task. Roth sent Miller lists of family members and friends he wanted to be interviewed, along with the questions that he felt should be asked. (...