Mirroring, mimicking and doubling are everywhere these days. What does this say about our collective sense of identity?
Category: Books and Literature
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Book Review: “Cocktails With George and Martha” by Philip Gefter
With Burton and Taylor as stars and a writer and director feuding, adapting the scabrous play wasn’t easy. “Cocktails With George and Martha” pours out the details.
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Poets React to Taylor Swift’s New ‘Tortured Poets Department’ Album
The title of Taylor Swift’s next album, “The Tortured Poets Department,” spurred strong responses from a typically quiet bunch.
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Jack Jennings, P.OW. Who Helped Build Burma Railway, Dies at 104
He was captured by the Japanese in Singapore and was one of thousands of prisoners whose hardships were the basis for the film “The Bridge on the River Kwai.”
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David J. Skal, Scholar Who Took Horror Seriously, Dies at 71
In books like “The Monster Show” and “Screams of Reason,” he examined the cultural significance of movies meant to scare the bejesus out of people.
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Jon Franklin, Pioneering Apostle of Literary Journalism, Dies at 82
He won two Pulitzer Prizes by transforming accounts of doctors at work into in-depth, narrative articles that read like dramatic short stories.
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11 Vintage Interiors Books to Fuel Your Home Design Fantasies
From Edith Wharton’s treatise on décor to a portrait of 1990s Tokyo, the books that designers return to again and again for inspiration.
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Crystal Hefner ya no solo cuenta las ‘cosas buenas’ de la Mansión Playboy
En una autobiografía reveladora, Crystal Hefner relata sus días pasados como modelo de Playboy y tercera (y última) esposa de Hugh Hefner.
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Joseph Lelyveld, Former Top Editor of The New York Times, Dies at 86
As executive editor from 1994 to 2001, he oversaw a period of growth, expanding national and international readerships, creating new sections and ushering in the digital age with a Times website.
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In a Downtown New York Tradition, Cleansing the New Year With Poetry
On the first day of the year, over a thousand devotees passed through the old church where the Poetry Project has held its annual 12-hour marathon for the last half-century.