Posted inTaro (Vegetable) Writing and Writers
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.
Posted inBooks and Literature Dennis-Benn, Nicole Here Comes the Sun (Book) Jamaica (West Indies) literaryguides Miller, Kei (1978- ) Rhys, Jean The Confounding Island: Jamaica and the Postcolonial Predicament (Book) Writing and Writers
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.