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.
Category: Writing and Writers
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Read Your Way Through Tangier
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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.
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Read Your Way Through Istanbul
The New York Times – Travel:Istanbul is unfathomable: old and new, real and surreal, melancholic and absurd. Elif Shafak, one of its foremost novelists, reveals its secrets.
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Eight Works to Take in After or Alongside Toni Morrison’s ‘Jazz’
The New York Times – T Magazine:The author consumed countless archival articles, essays, poems and even Sunday school programs to get a feel for the Harlem Renaissance. Here is some reading to help you do the same.
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Madhur Jaffrey’s Undefinable Roles
The New York Times – Fashion & Style:The chef, author and actress, whose children’s book, “Seasons of Splendour,” was reissued this month, refuses to be boxed in.
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Do You Have Messy Handwriting? We Want to See It.
The New York Times – Fashion & Style:Is your penmanship a mess? Can you often not read your own handwriting? Share something you wrote and later found hard to decipher.