And from the New York Times: Ink-Stained Wretches Journalists can be odd people. Their main job is to interrogate the world; to that end, they must be extroverted but discontented, energetic but grumpy, open-minded but incredulous. When the theatre critic Alexander Woollcott used the phrase “ink-stained wretches,” in 1921, he applied it to writers “who turn out books and plays,” but there’s a reason it’s now associated with reporters and editors: their work is animated by gleeful, even joyous, dissatisfaction. This week, we bring you stories about publishers and journalists. Many are about people and institutions from journalism’s ink-stained history: Wolcott Gibbs on Henry Luce (the founder of Time, Inc.); Joan Didion on the history of the Los Angeles Times; David Remnick on Bill Bradlee and Katharine Graham, of the Washington Post; Calvin Trillin’s Profile of the legendary New York Times reporter R. W. Apple. Other stories are about journalism’s tumultuous present: Evan Osnos and Michael Specter write about defiant journalists in China and Russia, respectively. Journalism can be an anxious profession—but, occasionally, a noble one, too. —Erin Overbey and Joshua Rothman, Archivists