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.
Category: Writing and Writers
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My Practice: Retelling Rituals
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Read Your Way Through Kingston, Jamaica
The New York Times – Travel:“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 New York Times – T Magazine: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
The New York Times – Business: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.
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Read Your Way Through Tangier
The New York Times – Travel:Tangier’s many facets have long inspired writers. Here, the Moroccan-born novelist Laila Lalami introduces readers to the books and writers that, to her, best capture the city.
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Anton Filatov, Ukrainian Film Critic, Drafted Into Real-Life War
The New York Times – Movies:Anton Filatov was pulled into a theater he never expected or wanted to enter: the front lines of war, where he now writes movingly of the scene in the trenches instead of what’s on the screen.
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Read Your Way Through Dublin
The New York Times – Travel:Virtuosity and creativity with language are “everyone’s birthright” in the Irish capital, says Tana French, an award-winning mystery writer who has made it her home.
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Julie Powell, Food Writer Known for ‘Julie & Julia,’ Dies at 49
The New York Times – Movies:She documented her attempt to cook every recipe in Julia Child’s “Mastering the Art of French Cooking” in a popular blog that became a best-selling book and a hit movie.
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Emily Dickinson, at Home in Her ‘Full-Color Life’
The New York Times – Travel:The poet’s house museum in Amherst, Mass., gets a vibrant, historically correct makeover, underlining that she was not just a reclusive woman in white.
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Emily Dickinson, at Home in Her ‘Full-Color Life’
The New York Times – Travel:The poet’s house museum in Amherst, Mass., gets a vibrant, historically correct makeover, underlining that she was not just a reclusive woman in white.
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John Jay Osborn Jr., Author of ‘The Paper Chase,’ Dies at 77
The New York Times – Movies:His 1971 novel became a movie, with John Houseman giving an award-winning performance as the imperious Professor Kingsfield, and later a television series.