She was born into a life in the public eye. Then she chose to go on morning TV.
Category: Writing and Writers
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Read Your Way Through Edinburgh
Edinburgh calls to readers, its pearl-grey skies urging them to curl up with a book. Maggie O’Farrell, the author of “Hamnet,” suggests reading that best reflects her city.
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Streaming’s Golden Age Is Suddenly Dimming
After years of breakneck growth, the number of scripted TV series orders made by networks and streamers is in decline.
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Book Review: ‘Jan Morris: Life from Both Sides: A Biography’
A new biography examines what made the prolific travel writer and transgender figure so driven, and who was ignored along the way.
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‘The Super 8 Years’ Review: Annie Ernaux’s Celluloid Souvenirs
In this wistful movie, the French writer and Nobel laureate revisits her life with help from her son, who’s also the director.
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Fluent in the Language of Style
For over three decades, Judith Thurman has captured the often ineffable pull of fashion and beauty like few others.
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My Practice: Retelling Rituals
As a reporter embedded on the Styles desk, I faced the challenging task of sharing the details of sacred rituals across the country — using only a few hundred words.
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Read Your Way Through Kingston, Jamaica
“No one sound speaks for all” Jamaicans, the novelist Marlon James says. Here are the books he recommends for readers who want to see the island’s many facets.
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Retracing Walt Whitman’s Steps Through Brooklyn and Manhattan
The poet wandered for himself and for his various day jobs with New York City newspapers. Some of his haunts are still standing; most have been swept away with time.
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John Corry, Former Times Reporter and TV Critic, Dies at 89
Among his best known articles were one that helped clear a man of killing his mother and one that disputed plagiarism charges against Jerzy Kosinski.