A tight-knit community of young-adult writers who belong to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has yielded smashes like “Twilight.” But religious doctrine can clash with creative freedoms.
Category: Books and Literature
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Book Review: ‘Fly,’ by Mitchell S. Jackson
From Michael Jordan to Russell Westbrook, Dennis Rodman to LeBron James, “Fly” traces the looks that have defined basketball style from the beginning.
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4 Design Books Discuss the Marks and Scars of Difficult Work
The marks and scars of difficult work underpin four new design books.
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Interior Design Advice for the Long Haul
Design experts say a surprising number of them have stood the test of time.
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Queer History Was Made in ’90s Clubs. These Fliers Captured It.
“Getting In,” a new book from David Kennerley, collects the edgy advertisements for parties at clubs like the Palladium and records a culture forged from defiance.
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Book Review: “The Once Upon a Time World, “by Jonathan Miles
Jonathan Miles’s “Once Upon a Time World” is a delightful, dizzying romp through the world’s most glamorous muse: the French Riviera.
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Jeff Daniels Unwinds With Hidden-Camera TV
The actor, musician and playwright has made a career out of finding ways to stay creative between “Dumb and Dumber” and “To Kill a Mockingbird.”
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Can This Deck of Cards Make Your Partner Do More Chores?
The Fair Play system, a word-of-mouth hit, seeks to bring so-called invisible labor out into the open.
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Can Shrinking Be Good for Japan? A Marxist Best Seller Makes the Case.
Kohei Saito says the country should seize this moment of demographic and economic challenge to reinvent itself through “degrowth communism.”
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Paul Brodeur, Reporter Who Exposed the Hazards of Asbestos, Dies at 92
In his long career at The New Yorker, he specialized in writing about this and other threats to people’s health, including chlorofluorocarbons.
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What Alex Jones, Woody Allen and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Share
Skyhorse Publishing has built a reputation for taking on authors that other houses avoid. And its founder has helped Kennedy mount a bid for president.
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Nechama Tec, Polish Holocaust Survivor and Scholar, Dies at 92
She wrote about heroic Jewish resisters in her book “Defiance,” which was later made into a film starring Daniel Craig and Liev Schreiber.