The “bouquinistes” along the River Seine have objected after being told that most of them will have to move temporarily for security reasons.
Category: Books and Literature
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Book Review: ‘A Pocketful of Happiness,’ by Richard E. Grant
The Oscar-nominated actor’s new memoir is at once a Hollywood air kiss and a moving tribute to a happy marriage that ended too soon.
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Read Your Way Through Salvador
The writer Itamar Vieira Junior says that to “feel the intensity of life on the streets of Salvador” in Bahia, Brazil, a reader must start with Jorge Amado.
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Apocalypse Nowish: An Octavia Butler Opera May Be Prophetic
Toshi Reagon and Bernice Johnson Reagon adapted Butler’s dystopian “Parable of the Sower.” Their opera makes its New York debut at Lincoln Center’s Summer for the City.
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My Unlikely Writing Teacher: Pedro Martinez
Looking to a maestro on the mound to improve your writing game.
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Behind ‘Oppenheimer,’ a Prizewinning Biography 25 Years in the Making
Martin Sherwin struck the deal and dove into the research. But it was only when Kai Bird joined as a collaborator that “American Prometheus” came to be.
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‘Umberto Eco’ Review: Remembering a Literary Explorer
A new documentary delves into the infectious curiosity and passions of the Italian scholar and author of “The Name of the Rose.”