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.
Category: Books and Literature
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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.”
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A Forensic Artist Brings the Protagonist of Karl Ove Knausgaard’s “The School of Night” to Life
The pair work together to envision Kristian Hadeland, the protagonist of the author’s latest novel, “The School of Night.”