7 of the Best Books About Sisi, Empress of Austria
Recently, I visited Vienna on my holidays. I had heard about Sisi, empress of Austria, when I was…
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Definitions for 10 Types of Magical Beings
Stop me if you’ve heard this one: what’s the difference between a Witch and a Sorceress? No…
7 Young Adult Books with Unconventional Narrative Structures
Where’d You Go, Bernadette? opened up new narrative horizons for me. A fiction book composed of…
Testimonies From the Day the Towers Came Down
THE ONLY PLANE IN THE SKYAn Oral History of 9/11By Garrett M. GraffIn the days after 9/11, a conventional wisdom…
Darryl Pinckney on Race, Class and Being ‘Busted in New York’
BUSTED IN NEW YORKAnd Other EssaysBy Darryl PinckneyAccording to a rumor in New Orleans, an old family…
Critical Linking, November 12, 2019
Critical Linking, a daily roundup of the most interesting bookish links from around the web is…
Seeing Margaret Thatcher Whole – The New York Times
MARGARET THATCHERThe Authorized Biography — Herself AloneBy Charles MooreHer party still genuflects to her, and…
For Lydia Davis, Language Is Character
Finding the right word is one thing, taking it for a walk another. Like most writers who are called…
The Graphic Novel Versions of Literary Classics Used to Seem Lowbrow. No More.
The form of comics is often associated with the practice of adaptation — from the big-budget, inescapable,…
Garry Shandling’s Riotous Scrapbook – The New York Times
IT’S GARRY SHANDLING’S BOOK Edited by Judd Apatow A little too scattershot and light on details to qualify as…