Defunct Newspapers Journals TV channels Websites Other Congressional caucuses Economics Gun rights Identity politics Nativist Religion Watchdog groups Youth/student groups Miscellaneous Other The publisher was named for Encounter, the now defunct literary magazine founded by Irving Kristol and Stephen Spender.

[3] In response, publisher Roger Kimball said in a statement, "Amazon is using its massive power to distort the marketplace of ideas and is deceiving its own customers in the process.

"[4] In October 2009, Encounter launched a series of short polemical booklets in what it said was the spirit of The Federalist Papers and Thomas Paine's Common Sense.

The series publishes well-known commentators on topical political issues, from health care and immigration to the Guantanamo Bay detention camp.

Publisher Roger Kimball said of the series: [T]he imprint will serve as "a new—or rather, a revival of an old—genre that is supple enough to respond quickly to unfolding events and yet authoritative enough to have an important effect on the debate over policy.