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LONDON — For the second year running, five of the six shortlisted novels for the International Booker Prize are by women. The contenders for the award, arguably the most significant prize for literature translated into English, were…
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MY DARK DEBUT Kate Elizabeth Russell worked on her first novel for 18 years — through high school, college, a master’s program, while earning a Ph.D. in creative writing from the University of Kansas and beyond. It took “about five…
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COOL TOWNHow Athens, Georgia, Launched Alternative Music and Changed American CultureBy Grace Elizabeth HaleThere was a time when Athens, Ga., a sleepy Southern college town, was known mostly for the passionate sis-boom-bah of University…
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Do you distinguish between “commercial” and “literary” fiction? Where’s that line, for you?I prefer commercial fiction because it usually lacks angst-filled navel gazing.How do you organize your books?This question made me laugh. Nothing…
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Photography and the mythos of the American cowboy have been lassoed together almost from birth. Even when they weren’t working hand in hand, they were often in close company. The most famous showdown in the Old West, the gunfight at the…
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From London, the author Alain de Botton, whose organization The School of Life is devoted to helping people find ways to wrestle with their troubles, recommends a story for young children, “The Tiger Who Came To Tea,” by Judith Kerr,…
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Bacevich has written trenchantly against what he considers this nation’s promiscuous foreign policy interventionism and the unconservative project of “nation building.” But his volume’s concluding section, “The Exceptional Nation:…
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If you have the attention span to read one book in this difficult time, “The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse” may be your best bet. It’s soothing and beautiful without being sappy; it’s prescriptive but never bossy. (“Sometimes just…
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Tomie dePaola, the celebrated author and illustrator of scores of beloved children’s books including the “Strega Nona” series, whose heartwarming stories nurtured and delighted many young generations, has died. He was 85.He died on…
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On New Year’s Eve 1980, Kathy Valentine, not yet 22, played her first show with a fledgling Los Angeles group called the Go-Go’s. Less than 18 months later, their debut album, “Beauty and the Beat,” hit No. 1 on the Billboard chart. They…
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