Books
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David Sedaris’s Diaries and Paul McCartney’s Songs
Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher | How to Listen David Sedaris’s second volume of diaries, “A Carnival of…
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Joan Didion Chronicled American Disorder With Her Own Unmistakable Style
Joan Didion was 5 years old when she wrote her first story, upon the instruction of her mother, who had…
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Joan Didion, ‘New Journalist’ Who Explored Culture and Chaos, Dies at 87
Joan Didion, whose mordant dispatches on California culture and the chaos of the 1960s established her as a leading exponent…
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New Books Update Our Thinking About Cruelty
Unless you happen to be a proud sadist, intentional cruelty is something that other people do. When Hamlet said he…
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ThighMasters, Jazzercise, Yoga and Other Chapters in the History of Women and Exercise
The history of personal fitness is strewn with objects that once gleamed with promise and now seem redundant, even ridiculous.…
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In ‘Desperate,’ a Reporter Dives Deep Into Dirty Water
The story of a yearslong lawsuit in West Virginia, recounted in Kris Maher’s “Desperate,” has some direct echoes of the…
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As a Black Bard of the South, Randall Kenan Toppled Monuments
For most of his life, wherever Randall Kenan went, he saw his name. A writer of both fiction and nonfiction,…
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A Stylish Art Dealer and a Trip to Italy
Credit..."Santa Rufina" by Diego VelázquezI was leafing through an old Terence Conran book on home décor and encountered an interesting…
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The Life of a Jazz Age Madam
Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher | How to Listen In 2007, Debby Applegate won a Pulitzer Prize for…
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Anne Rice’s Final Interview: ‘I Am Known to Be Passionate’
Shortly before the stroke that killed her, the author of the Vampire Chronicles and many other books — including the…