In his new memoir, “Uncross Your Legs,” Stan Herman chronicles a lifetime of adventures in apparel (and out).
Category: Books and Literature
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Can ‘Wonka’ Save the Oompa-Loompas?
“Wonka” is the latest film to try to shake the tiny unpaid laborers from their colonialist roots in Roald Dahl’s “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.”
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Ted Morgan, 91, Dies; Pulitzer-Winning Writer Straddled Two Cultures
An esteemed journalist and author, he was born to a French count but later shed his aristocratic roots (and name) to became a U.S. citizen.
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Beatles Biographer Grapples With the ‘Paradox’ of George Harrison
Philip Norman, the author of books about Paul McCartney, John Lennon and the Beatles as a group, discovers that Harrison was, among other things, a puzzle.
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Book Review: ‘Airplane Mode,’ by Shahnaz Habib
Shahnaz Habib’s “irreverent history” takes a lively and sometimes ruthless look at who gets to go where and what gets papered over in their accounts.
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Dhonielle Clayton Is Working to Make the Book World More Diverse
Her solution? A packaging business that sells ideas for commercial genre fiction featuring characters from broadly diverse backgrounds.
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24 Things That Stuck With Us in 2023
Films, TV shows, albums, books, art and A.I.-generated SpongeBob performances that reporters, editors and visual journalists in Culture couldn’t stop thinking about this year.
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In Belfast, a Celebration of Art, Community and Pizza
The author and illustrator Oliver Jeffers invited friends to toast his new book at a dinner in a former textile mill.
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Jane Wodening, Experimental Film Star and Intrepid Writer, Dies at 87
For 30 years she collaborated with the filmmaker Stan Brakhage, her husband, often appearing on camera. After they divorced, she lived off the grid and wrote about her life.
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Read Your Way Through Madrid
Like many who call Madrid home, Elena Medel was born elsewhere, but forged her identity in the Spanish capital. Here, she recommends books about this city that “refuses to be reduced to an ideal.”
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Winona Ryder Fans Celebrate New Photo Book of the ‘Eternal Cool Girl’
Fashionistas and celebrities gathered for a new book filled with candid shots of the understated Gen X star.
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John Nichols, Author of ‘The Milagro Beanfield War,’ Dies at 83
After decamping from New York to New Mexico, he wrote what was, for a time, among the most widely read novels about Latinos.