Starring in the 1992 film adaptation helped launch an eclectic career. “Ongoing” is the book that accompanies a retrospective on her work.
Category: Books and Literature
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Abel Ferrara: In Rome, They Call Him ‘Maestro’
Abel Ferrara, an icon of down-and-dirty New York cinema who has a key role in ‘Marty Supreme,’ tells the story of his wild career in a frank memoir.
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Richard Pollak, 91, Dies; Edited Magazine That Criticized the Media
He was a founder of More, which skewered the foibles of the press in the 1970s, and later wrote a critical biography of the psychoanalyst Bruno Bettelheim.
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The Artists Behind “Exactitudes” Capture How People Use Clothes to Create Identity
Two artists spent 30 years cataloging how people dress and learned a lot about humanity in the process.
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‘Emily in Paris’ Makes Its Mark on a Fashion Capital and More News
“Emily in Paris” may have moved to Rome, but a prestigious award and a new book show the series has left a stylish mark on the City of Light. Plus, a fashion innovator on A.I.
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Sue Bender, Who Wrote About Living With the Amish, Dies at 91
“Plain and Simple,” her best-selling 1989 book, was a go-to text of the anti-materialist movement known as voluntary simplicity.
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John Darnielle on His Favorite Books and Annotated Lyrics
The novelist and musician is a voracious reader of books in translation. In “This Year,” he annotates the literary lyrics to 365 of his own songs.
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Who Is the Ultimate Onscreen Mr. Darcy From ‘Pride and Prejudice’?
Welcome to our Regency Thunderdome, where we will endeavor to answer this question once and for all.
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Sophie Kinsella, ‘Confessions of a Shopaholic’ Author, Dies at 55
Writing under a pseudonym, Madeleine Wickham cultivated an international following for her series centered on a young woman addicted to shopping.
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Jessie Buckley is a Grieving Mother in Hamnet
Jessie Buckley, star of “Hamnet,” on the primal love — and grief — of motherhood.
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Cynthia Erivo on Her Favorite Books, “Wicked” and Her New Memoir
“I have to be still for a certain amount of time,” says the “Wicked” star and author of “Simply More: A Book for Anyone Who Has Been Told They’re Too Much.”