Tag: Books and Literature
Some Surprising Good News: Bookstores Are Booming and Becoming More Diverse
Many stores have also seen a bump in profits. In a survey of booksellers earlier this year, the…
How to Prevent Memory Loss
Over his decades of treating patients, Dr. Restak has noticed that fiction requires active engagement with the text,…
Naked No More: A TV Rodent Teaches Families About Tolerance
Mo Willems’s picture books often feature committed nonconformists — not the human kind, but the animal variety. Over…
‘Downton Shabby’: A Commoner Takes on an English Castle
People who search genealogy websites often find birth and marriage records, newspaper clippings, faded photographs or maybe a…
Leïla Slimani on How to Read Your Way Through Paris
This is the first story in a new series exploring the world through books. We’ve asked some of…
What Sheryl Sandberg’s ‘Lean In’ Has Meant to Women
When Amy Bailey, a communications strategist, read “Lean In” by Sheryl Sandberg, the year was 2013. The #MeToo…
At Passionflix, Tosca Musk Streams Shows of ‘Toe Curling Yumminess’
First Look Media is the biggest Passionflix investor, although that company’s chief executive, Michael Bloom, declined to disclose…
An Irish National Treasure Gets Set for a Long-Needed Restoration
DUBLIN — The Long Room, with its imposing oak ceiling and two levels of bookshelves laden with some…
An Oliver Sacks Book Becomes an Opera, With Help From Friends
With little room for Sacks’s panorama of patients, Stollman combined some into composite characters. But Leonard L., who…
How Hollywood and the Media Fueled the Political Rise of J.D. Vance
Members of New York’s smart set gathered on a warm Thursday evening in the early summer of 2016…
Trump Proposed Launching Missiles Into Mexico to ‘Destroy the Drug Labs,’ Esper Says
In Mr. Esper’s telling, Mr. Trump seemed more emboldened, and more erratic, after he was acquitted in his…
Review: ‘After Steve: How Apple Became a Trillion-Dollar Company and Lost Its Soul,’ by Tripp Mickle
Mickle builds a dense, granular mosaic of the firm’s trials and triumphs, showing us how Apple, built on…