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Going Reading: Big-Girl Books You'll Absolutely Love
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In a New Book, Steven Klein Gathers 20 Years’ Worth of His Photographs for Vogue
Spanning the first twenty years of the 21st century, from 2000 to 2019, the book features images commissioned by Vogue’s global editorial…
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Gertrude Stein’s Love Language
Stein’s authority as an arbiter was bolstered by an ambiguously gendered seduction. Genius, she believed, was a masculine trait, and she…
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Rose Dommu on Her Debut Novel ‘Best Woman,’ the Trans ’90s Rom-Com Update We Deserve
Some books feel destined to be optioned. Take journalist and author Rose Dommu’s debut novel, Best Woman—about Julia, a bisexual trans…
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Ian McEwan Casts the Climate Crisis as a Story of Adultery
At the start of “What We Can Know,” Ian McEwan’s eighteenth novel, the year is 2119 and the humanities are still in crisis. Thomas…
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The Uses and Abuses of “Antisemitism”
How a term coined to describe a nineteenth-century politics of exclusion would become a diagnosis, a political cudgel, and a rallying cry.…
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Reading the New Pynchon Novel in a Pynchonesque America
As for pace, “Shadow Ticket” reads like one of its subplots, about the Trans-Trianon 2000, a two-thousand-kilometre motorcycle circuit…
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The Metropolitan Opera Delves Into Comic Books
1. The beloved British polymath and broadcasting legend Melvyn Bragg, who joined the BBC in 1961, recently stepped down from his show “In…
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How Jane Birkin Handled the Problem of Beauty
In Agnès Varda’s film “Jane B. par Agnès V.,” from 1988, a nearly forty-year-old Jane Birkin, dressed in jeans, a white T-shirt, and a…
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Israel Information Center organizes award ceremony for books on Shimon Peres, Moshe Sharett
Peres, the only one to serve as both prime minister and president, and Sharett, the country’s second prime minister, were chosen as the…
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Zoe Dubno on ‘Happiness and Love,’ Her Wickedly Funny Debut Novel Skewering New York’s Creative Class
At the beginning of Zoe Dubno’s debut novel, Happiness and Love, we find ourselves at a Downtown Manhattan dinner party. Anticipation…
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Mark Hamill’s All-Time Favorite Books by Stephen King
In the past year, the actor Mark Hamill—best known for playing Luke Skywalker in the original “Star Wars” trilogy—has starred in not one…
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In a New Book, Journalist P.E. Moskowitz Examines Our Cultural Relationship to Drugs of All Kinds
Are there any advancements in drug policy you discovered during the research process that made you genuinely hopeful? Not really.…
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The Passions of Sally Mann
Editorial rigor is something that is so important with making art. You can make all the art you want, but if you dilute it by putting out…
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Why Christopher Marlowe Is Still Making Trouble
Do you know the one about the Jewish guy and the Muslim Turk? They gang up on this Christian friar and strangle him. Then they take him…
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The Mystery of the Cat Mystery
Mid-pandemic, I was speaking with a semi-stranger at a playground where our children were playing semi-together. Her son, maybe six or…
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Instagram-style Xiaohongshu hits US$31 billion value in GSR books
XIAOHONGSHU’S valuation surged 19 per cent to US$31 billion in just three months during recent transactions via a major fund, underscoring…
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Melissa Lozada-Oliva on Her Deeply Poetic, Delightfully Weird New Short Story Collection
Melissa Lozada-Oliva has range. She’s the author of the 2017 poetry collection Peluda (Spanish for “hairy”); her 2021 debut novel,…
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Jennette McCurdy Announces Her Debut Novel, ‘Half His Age’—and Exclusively Reveals the Book Cover
Who is McCurdy’s Waldo? “Oh, boy, I love her,” she says. “She’s ravenous, horny, blunt. I’ve always heard fiction writers say, ‘I can’t…
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Shoshanna Forever
My mother once told me a story about falling through the ice when she was skating as a child on a pond that hadn’t properly frozen over.…
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Elizabeth Gilbert’s Latest Epiphanies
“Elizabeth Gilbert has a new memoir out.” The mere sentence radiates gentle inspiration—watercolors, billowy pants with elephants printed…
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I Tried the Creative Rituals of 5 Meticulous Authors. Here’s What I Learned
Every year when January 1 comes around, the needlessness of setting goals is shouted from the rooftops. But I, in a clandestine corner of…
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Required Reading: 7 Books and Authors That Inspired Elizabeth McGovern’s New Play
“It just blew my mind, because it takes a person all the way from high school age to maturity. That really fascinates me as an actor, the…
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Marissa Higgins’s Sweetener Is Proof That the Sapphic Novel Has Never Been Messier—Or More Compelling
Tell me about the significance of the name Rebecca. Does it feel like—for lack of a better word—a queer name to you? This is so…