In her second novel, “The Farewell Tour,” Stephanie Clifford follows a veteran singer who’s wrapping up a long career on her own terms.
Category: Books and Literature
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Book Review: ‘The Farewell Tour,’ by Stephanie Clifford
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Building a New Canon of Black Literature
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How Great Art Gets Lost — and Found Again
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Richard Anobile, Chronicler of the Marx Brothers, Dies at 76
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C.S. Lewis’s Oxford: Where the Lion and the Witch Met the Hobbit
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Why Fashion Can’t Get Enough of the Bloomsbury Group
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Letting Go of Her Ballet Dream
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‘Daisy Jones & the Six’ and the Ballad of Making Rock ’n’ Roll TV
The New York Times – Music:After more than a year of delays and adjustments, the big-budget adaptation of a best-selling novel about music, love and fame hopes to become this year’s irresistible streaming series.
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Do You Have to Be an Optimist to Work Toward a Better World?
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Amiri Baraka’s ‘Blues People’ Comes Home to the Apollo
The New York Times – Music:The trumpeter and composer Russell Gunn will premiere “The Blues and Its People,” a suite inspired by Baraka’s influential text, to mark its 60th anniversary.
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Why the Chimera Is the Monster for Our Uncertain Age
The New York Times – T Magazine:Whenever the human world is in trouble, our imagination turns to this creature: a hybrid beast that defies easy understanding.