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Joining COMMENTARY
Just a quick note to announce that I have become the Online Editor of Commentary magazine, where I will be working with editor John Podhoretz and Jonathan S. Tobin, who was elevated to the position of Senior Online Editor, to make the best magazine in America even better. My primary job will be to edit the magazine’s blog Contentions, but I’ll also help around the house. And blog there myself now and then, when I have something topical and pressing to say.
I should also note that, for only $1.99 a month, you can now get Commentary delivered to your Kindle. Podhoretz’s monthly editorials and Andrew Ferguson’s “Press Man,” his monthly column of press criticism, alone are worth the price. The May issue of the magazine includes Noah Pollak’s exposé of B’Tselem, the Israeli “human-rights” organization, Omri Ceren’s examination of the Goldstone Report in light of its author’s admission that most of it was a lie, and a wonderful essay by Algis Valiunas on Montaigne.
8 comments:
Big news---congratulations!
Thanks, Mark. It may only be a part-time job, but it’s also the realization of a long-held dream.
Congratulations!
I've enjoyed a Commonplace Blog(and a very interesting take on Stanley Elkin's The Dick Gibson Show you wrote)and look forward to adding a bit more of literary and cultural flavor to Contentions.
By the way, does the Kindle version of Commentary include the whole magazine- including, that is, the letters, which we contentious types enjoy?
Stuart Rose
Every word—from aleph to tav.
Congratulations!
Congrats!
Congratulations! I remember talking to you about Commentary at the MLA once, perhaps 15 years ago, so I know this has been a long-term interest of yours.
Bob
I'm very pleased to learn of your new professional relationship with Commentary Magazine and their Contentions blog. I am a longtime reader of both Contentions and A Commonplace Blog, and now I can look forward to more literary coverage in Contentions and more Israel-centric news in A Commonplace Blog. You've provided me with some excellent reading suggestions over the past few months (in particular, the novels of Francine Prose and Fat City), and I greatly enjoy and appreciate your point of view and how you express it. Best of luck with your new responsibilities!
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