Tag: Books and Literature
Review: ‘The Immortal King Rao,’ by Vauhini Vara
THE IMMORTAL KING RAO, by Vauhini VaraThe premise of Vauhini Vara’s debut novel, “The Immortal King Rao,” is…
How ‘Under the Banner of Heaven’ Took On Murder and the Mormon Church
The murders shocked the small town of American Fork, Utah, where they happened, about 30 miles south of…
‘The Bad Guys’ and the Crossroads Its Author Faced
The Australian author and illustrator Aaron Blabey gave himself an ultimatum in 2014. The father of two, then…
This Spanish Village Has More Booksellers Than School Pupils
URUEÑA, Spain — Standing on a hilltop in northwestern Spain, Urueña overlooks a vast and windswept landscape of…
Jennifer Grey: Don’t Call Her ‘Baby’
In 1986, Grey landed a breakout role as “Baby” Houseman in “Dirty Dancing,” a movie about an awkward…
We Have a Creativity Problem
To explore the subjects’ explicit views, the researchers had them fill out a survey rating their feelings about…
Oh, Brother: The Not-Quite-Tell-All Books by Presidential Sisters
In her 1921 biography about her brother Theodore Roosevelt, Corrine Roosevelt Robinson saw no harm in sharing “almost…
China’s Information Dark Age Could Be Russia’s Future
When Russia blocked Facebook and limited Twitter this month, many Chinese internet users were surprised. Wait a moment,…
For a Ukrainian Poet, Putin’s War Is All Too Familiar
LVIV, Ukraine — At 83, no longer a young poet, Ihor Kalynets knows something of life under Russia’s…
An Educator Read ‘I Need a New Butt!’ to Children. Then He Was Fired.
It was Read Across America week, and the second graders in the Hinds County School District in Mississippi…
Samuel L. Jackson and Walter Mosley Team Up for a Sci-Fi Fable
Samuel L. Jackson made his name in the movies, Walter Mosley in literature. But when it was time…
He Banned the Yahoos and Kept the Social X-Rays Fed
It was the best show in town, the society chronicler Dominick Dunne once wrote of Mortimer’s, a brick-walled…