Margaret Atwood and John Banville are among the authors who have sold their voices and commentary to an app that aims to bring canonical texts to life with the latest tech.
Category: Writing and Writers
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The Women Rethinking Marriage and Family Life Because of Miranda July’s ‘All Fours’
The author’s new novel, “All Fours,” has spurred a whisper network of women fantasizing about desire and freedom.
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Read Your Way Through New Orleans
New Orleans is a thriving hub for festivals, music and Creole cuisine. Here, the novelist Maurice Carlos Ruffin shares books that capture its many cultural influences.
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Julio Torres and Friends Toast ‘Fantasmas,’ Their Latest Bizarro Creation
The writer and director celebrated with a roomful of comedians on the rise before an advance screening of “Fantasmas,” his new HBO series.
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Shirley Conran, Author Best Known for the Steamy ‘Lace,’ Dies at 91
A divorced single mother, she started out to write a sex guide for schoolgirls and ended up with a tale of female autonomy that became a best-selling novel.
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Samm-Art Williams, Playwright, Producer and Actor, Dies at 78
He challenged racial barriers in Hollywood, was a producer of “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air” and earned a Tony nomination for “Home,” a paean to his Southern roots.
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An Artist Whose Knits Are an Antidote to Loneliness
Patrick Carroll began making textiles during lockdown. Last year, several of them appeared in a JW Anderson runway show.
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What Ethan Hawke’s ‘Wildcat’ Gets Right About Flannery O’Connor
Those familiar with her menagerie of grotesques, her views of Southern society, her tortured faith and inner contradictions will get what his film is doing.
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By the Book Interview With Judi Dench
“They’re snapshots of the past: first-night gifts, holidays abroad, memories of lost friends and loved ones,” the award-winning actress says. Her latest, written with Brendan O’Hea, is “Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent.”
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With ‘All Fours,’ Miranda July Experiments in Fiction and in Life
In “All Fours,” her first novel in almost 10 years, the writer, artist and filmmaker considers freedom — sexual and otherwise.