Polaroid photos capturing the fugitive spirit and some famous faces of New York’s 1980s club scene are the focus of a new book, “Camera Girl.”
Category: Books and Literature
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‘Modern Love Podcast:’ Revisit Our Columnist’s Powerful Love Lessons
It’s been 20 years since Daniel Jones started Modern Love as a weekly column in The New York Times. Today, he shares what the job has taught him about love.
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How Did Lesbian Pulp Fiction Thrive in the 1950s and ’60s?
These lurid paperbacks offer today’s readers a portal to an early, furtive era of queer expression.
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Book Review: ‘Giant Love: Edna Ferber, Her Best-Selling Novel of Texas, and the Making of a Classic American Film,’ by Julie Gilbert
In “Giant Love,” the novelist’s great-niece chronicles the Texas saga’s divisive reception and the epic film adaptation that’s now better known than the book.
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Emma Corrin and Maggie Nelson on the Strength in Vulnerability
The “Nosferatu” actor and the writer discuss solitude, self-editing and the playfulness of their work.
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Book Review: ‘American Bulk: Essays on Excess,’ by Emily Mester
In an eye-opening collection, Emily Mester considers why she, and we, seek satisfaction by obsessively choosing, buying and rating the objects we desire.
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Mike Shatzkin, Colorful Publishing Industry Guru, Dies at 77
His blog, The Shatzkin Files, was an essential read for industry insiders. His observations about the changes digital publishing would bring were prophetic.
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Harold W. Sims Jr., Whose Museum Honored the House Cat, Dies at 89
He displayed some 10,000 cat-themed artifacts at the American Museum of the House Cat in North Carolina, which welcomed several thousand people a year.
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In Her New Book, Maira Kalman Reckons with Remorse and Joy
In a collection of mini essays, poems and painted vignettes, the artist and writer reckons with remorse and joy.
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‘Modern Love Podcast’: Thanksgiving With My Wife and Girlfriend
Townsend Davis and his wife Brigid were happily married for more than a decade when an unexpected diagnosis disrupted everything.