Category: Books and Literature

Harvard’s Taylor Swift Scholars Have Thoughts on ‘The Tortured Poets Department’

The students taking Harvard University’s class on the singer are studying up. Their final papers are due at the end of the month.
Graydon Carter Opens Air Mail Newsstand in New York’s West Village

Shoe horns, lampshades and CBD-infused elixirs are among the goods Graydon Carter is selling at a new newsstand-style shop in New York.
Quick! Someone Get This Book a Doctor.

Inside the book conservation lab at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Quick! Someone Get This Book a Doctor.

Inside the book conservation lab at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Dafydd Jones on Photographing New York Society in the ’80s and ’90s

In the 1980s and ’90s, Dafydd Jones’s party shots captured Manhattan’s rich and powerful.
Barbara Joans, Anthropologist Who Studied Biker Culture, Dies at 89

In her 60s, she hit the open road on a hulking Harley-Davidson and found a new area of academic research: bikers, and in particular, women bikers.
Read Your Way Through Accra

Bus stations. Traffic stops. Beaches. There’s no telling where you’ll find the next story in Accra, Ghana’s capital. Peace Adzo Medie shares some of her favorites.
How the Trumpeter Jeremy Pelt Became a Chronicler of Black Jazz History

Inspired by the drummer Arthur Taylor’s “Notes and Tones” collection of interviews with fellow musicians, Pelt started his own book series, “Griot.”
O.J. Simpson’s Book Publisher on the Interview When He ‘Confessed’ to Murder

Years after Mr. Simpson was acquitted, he wrote a book and gave a shocking interview. The whole endeavor cost the publisher, Judith Regan, her job.
In New York, Literary Events Are the Hottest Ticket in Town

These days, literary events in New York City can require tickets and be just as hard to get into as the hottest restaurant.
Salman Rushdie Is Again the Toast of Literary Manhattan

Nearly two years after he was stabbed, he was in fine form as he greeted his fellow writers at a party celebrating his candid memoir, “Knife.”
Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin on Her New Home and Book

It took Doris Kearns Goodwin a while to adjust to leaving the Concord, Mass., farmhouse she shared with her husband. But Boston has its compensations.