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Laura Dave Knows the Best Place in LA to Overhear a Juicy Conversation
Laura Dave follows up her blockbuster The Last Thing He Told Me with the sequel The First Time I Saw Him (Scribner), which the Santa…
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Beauty
Don’t Mistake Madeline Cash’s ‘Lost Lambs’ for an “Internet Novel”—It’s as Human as They Come
A couple’s open marriage collapses as their three daughters are sucked into a billionaire-led criminal conspiracy in Madeline Cash’s…
World
How to Recover from Caring Too Much
In Clayton’s and Josephson’s hands, though, the fawn response becomes something more pliable, less a sign of acute threat than a broadly…
Beauty
‘The Uncollected Stories of Mavis Gallant’ Will Make You Believe in Literature Again
You can’t really “discover” Mavis Gallant; you can only join the ranks of people who will rhapsodize, almost delirious, about her once…
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What Can Conversion Memoirs Tell Us?
Eventually, Ash finds in herself a gradual attraction, not only to religious practice but to the wild disharmonies of belief. Her mother…
Style
The Psychology of Fashion
Virginia Woolf had portrayed a similar tension between unity and fragmentation a decade earlier, with Mrs. Dalloway gazing at herself in…
World
Briefly Noted
“Daring to Be Free,” “The Second Estate,” “Best Offer Wins,” and “A Love Story from the End of the World.” Source link
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Elizabeth McCracken Doesn’t Want You to Buy Cowboy Boots in Austin
Hotel: The Hotel San José on South Congress Street is close to The Continental Club, and is also a nice place to grab a drink. (The…
World
Stephen Sondheim, Puzzle Maestro
Most of the book, though, is devoted to a “ludological biography” of the great man: a life in puzzle pieces, hitherto unassembled.…
Fashion
I'm a Bibliophilic Beauty Editor—These 13 Chic Coffee Table Books Are Brimming With Inspo
Throughout my career as a beauty editor, there have been moments that have truly defined my experience. One of the most notable was trying…
Style
A Student Chases the Shadows of Tiananmen
In the beginning of Ha Jin’s new novel, “Looking for Tank Man,” a sophomore at Harvard seems to be on the verge of throwing her life away.…
Style
The Ancient Roots of Doing Time
Tales of ancient incarceration, which might once have seemed the stuff of legend, turn out, again and again, to have an archeological…
Beauty
Author Lidia Yuknavitch on Having Her Memoir Adapted By Kristen Stewart
Lidia Yuknavitch: It’s pretty mind-blowing. I don’t really think of it the way that maybe other people do; I think Kristen made her own…
Beauty
Tamar Adler's New Book Is an Ode to Cooking as a Habit, a Comfort, and an Everyday Joy
I’m not sure there’s another cook currently writing who has the power to transform her readers’ relationships to their own kitchens quite…
Style
What Makes Goethe So Special?
On his return to Frankfurt, he found it: the life of Götz von Berlichingen, an early-sixteenth-century knight with a prosthetic iron hand,…
World
The High-Born Rebel Who Took Up the Cause of the Commoner
Much like her childhood identification with communism, her writing began as something of a joke. She was utterly devoted to the Party’s…
Business
Sally Rooney books may be withdrawn from UK sale over Palestine Action ban, court told
Irish author Sally Rooney has told the High Court it is "almost certain" she cannot publish new novels in the UK and may have to withdraw…
Beauty
The Endless Allure of the Messy Divorce Novel
Either way, that most private of things, divorce, is now being picked up and held to the light. And I, for one, can’t stop looking at it.…
Beauty
Miu Miu Literary Club Heads to Shanghai—and Offers a Deeper Take on Fashion’s Book Obsession
The growth of Miu Miu Literary Club feels fortuitously timed: There’s been a rising fashion-world fixation on literature over the past few…
World
Where Dante Guides Us
Hell is nevertheless filled with bloody and horrific torments. In Dante’s eyes, some sinners fully deserve what they get: corrupt clerics,…
Style
What Does “Capitalism” Really Mean, Anyway?
The endgame of capitalism, in his account, is a world where “almost nothing escaped commodification.” Beckert here refers to commodities…
Beauty
The Best Coffee Table Books to Give This Holiday Season
Books, books, books—they surround us, mentally and physically, in floor-to-ceiling bookcases, in stacks on the floor acting as end tables,…
Business
Man Books a Vacation to Thailand Without Girlfriend, Then Gets Upset When She Books Her Own Trip
NEED TO KNOW A woman said her boyfriend booked a Thailand holiday without discussing it, despite their differing travel planning styles…
Style
If the Legal Campaigns Against Donald Trump Had Ended Differently
“Injustice” largely ignores those cases. Its drama is tightly enclosed within the D.O.J.—illuminatingly but also, at times, suffocatingly…