Simon & Schuster Remains Silent

Simon & Schuster remains silent

The Washington Free Beacon devotes an editorial to Simon & Schuster’s continued marketing of the late Cambridge Professor Jason Arday’s “memoir” Great and Unfortunate Things, among which must now be numbered Arday’s suicide. Simon & Schuster now notes that it published the book “days before his untimely death on August 14, 2026.” Something happened. As the Free Beacon editorial observes, Simon & Schuster is “raking in money off the book. It stoo…

Simon & Schuster’s Disgrace

Imagine a world in which the late Cambridge University professor Jason Arday had released a widely-hyped book published by Simon & Schuster, one of the Big Five publishing houses, then embarked on a book tour, and nobody said anything.For such a thing to have happened to a "renowned sociologist," a "highly respected scholar of race," "the youngest Black person ever appointed to a professorship at Cambridge"—well, that would have been racist.Inst…