Books
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The Critic Elizabeth Hardwick Was Very Tough on Biographies. Now Here’s One of Her.
To be a literary biographer is to court the extravagant ridicule of the very people you write about. For all…
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Paul Newman Will Tell His Own Story, 14 Years After His Death
Decades ago, the actor and philanthropist Paul Newman, frustrated by all the unauthorized biographies and coverage of his life, recorded…
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Justice Dept. Sues Penguin Random House Over Simon & Schuster Deal
In one of its first major antitrust decisions, the Biden administration is suing to stop Penguin Random House, the largest…
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Louise Erdrich’s ‘The Sentence’ Considers the (Literally) Haunting Power of Books
Who among us hasn’t, in some sense, stolen a corpse and accidentally trafficked crack cocaine across state lines? That is…
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‘Maybe I Do Have a Story to Tell’: Kal Penn on His Memoir
Starring in the buddy stoner comedy “Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle” is good material for a memoir. One…
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James Ivory, Famous for Buttoned-Up Films, Is Frank About Sex and Much Else in His Memoir
The movie director James Ivory is most closely associated with decorous period pieces, paeans to inhibition like “Howards End” and…
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Huma Abedin Has Been to Hell and Back. Now She’s Gingerly Telling the Tale.
BOTH/AND: A Memoir, by Huma Abedin When Huma Abedin was a young, single aide to Hillary Clinton, she was already…
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Choose Me! Rose-worthy Romance Novels
We will never reach a general sense of how realistic — or unrealistic — the romance genre is because with…
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For His Father and His Son, Ai Weiwei Is Determined to Leave a Trace
1000 YEARS OF JOYS AND SORROWS A Memoir By Ai Weiwei Translated by Allan H. Barr “You’re just a pawn…
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Katie Couric on ‘Going There’
Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher | How to Listen In her new memoir, “Going There,” Katie Couric writes…