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Category: Books and Literature
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Cormac McCarthy, Novelist of a Darker America, Is Dead at 89
“All the Pretty Horses,” “The Road” and “No Country for Old Men” were among his acclaimed books that explore a bleak world of violence and outsiders.
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Book Review: ‘Wannabe,’ by Aisha Harris
In her essay collection “Wannabe,” Aisha Harris argues that Black critics can both appreciate, and demand more from, shifts in popular culture.
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Richard E. Snyder, 93, Dies; Drove Simon & Schuster to New Heights
In two decades of leadership at the publishing house, he helped remold a clubby book industry into a diversified and highly profitable corporate enterprise.
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The Home Cook Who Wants to ‘Blow Up the Kitchen’
A new book by the British academic Rebecca May Johnson urges a radical rethinking of just what goes on in the kitchen. For starters, don’t call cooking a labor of love.
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Book Review: ‘Pageboy: A Memoir,’ by Elliot Page
In the “brutally honest” memoir “Pageboy,” the actor recounts the fears and obstacles to gender transition, and the hard-won happiness that’s followed.
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How KIRAC Trailed Michel Houellebecq From the Bedroom to the Courtroom
The art collective KIRAC was embroiled in court battles over a film about the author’s sex life. Is the dispute a performance? A marketing stunt? Or a genuine cultural feud?
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‘Dykes to Watch Out For,’ Now Holding Forth in Your Headphones
The long-running comic strip by Alison Bechdel, the creator of “Fun Home,” first held up a mirror to its queer readership in 1983. So what does a new audio adaptation have to say to listeners today?
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How the Shoggoth Meme Has Come to Symbolize the State of A.I.
The Shoggoth, a character from a science fiction story, captures the essential weirdness of the A.I. moment.
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In Tokyo, Skipping the Hot and New for Enduring Haunts
Using a guidebook published more than 20 years ago, a writer searches out the bars and restaurants that express the city’s traditional eating and drinking culture.
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Rick Wolff, Sports Radio Host and Much More, Is Dead at 71
As a psychological coach (and ex-player), he helped revive a woeful Cleveland baseball team. He had a WFAN show about youth sports and shepherded best sellers.