Jake Paul has not had a quiet moment to think. Between traveling to Miami to watch his older brother, Logan, fight Floyd Mayweather Jr. in June, training in Puerto Rico for a fight on Sunday and stirring controversy on social media, Paul has kept busy. He has not had time
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When the Book Review Went Really Harsh
From its very first issue in October 1896, the Book Review liked to deliver blunt edicts — and, as you’ll see, even blunter headlines. An 1898 review of George Bernard Shaw’s collected plays asserted that “he has not a touch of the poetical in his composition, and the critic and
Donald Newlove, 93, Dies; Novelist Explored the Depths of Drink
Donald Newlove, a recovered alcoholic who wrote acclaimed, brutally unsentimental novels and a memoir with a common theme — drunkenness — as well as cheeky primers on reading and writing, died on Aug. 17 in Bethesda, Md. He was 93. The cause was complications of a broken hip, said Lisa
Stephen B. Oates, Civil War Historian, Dies at 85
The American Historical Association, which examined the charges, issued an ambiguous ruling in 1993, saying there was “no evidence” that Dr. Oates had committed plagiarism “as it is conventionally understood.” But it did find evidence “of too great and too continuous dependence, even with attribution, on the structure, distinctive language
David Grossman’s New Novel Is a Multigenerational Saga of Love and Loss
And so we are introduced to a multigenerational saga fraught with geopolitical brutality and familial trauma, featuring a vivid and formidable 90-year-old matriarch named Vera, with a “Ben-Gurion-like domineering tone” and “a bladder like the late president Hafez Assad’s.” This “little woman with the sharp green eyes” presides over the
U.S. Open Tightens Protocols, Fans Must Provide Proof of Covid Vaccination
Under pressure from Mayor Bill de Blasio and other city leaders, the United States Tennis Association reversed its lax coronavirus protocols for the upcoming U.S. Open tournament, which opens to thousands of fans on Monday. Originally, the tournament did not require any proof of vaccination or a recent negative coronavirus
New in Paperback: ‘A Knock at Midnight,’ ‘The Vapors’ and More
A KNOCK AT MIDNIGHT: A Story of Hope, Justice, and Freedom, by Brittany K. Barnett. (Crown, 352 pp., $17.) This memoir by Barnett — a young Black lawyer and the cofounder of Buried Alive, an organization that appeals life sentences for nonviolent drug offenders — “unfurls like a coming-of-age story,”
5 Songs to Listen to Right Now
5 Songs to Listen to Right Now Jon ParelesListening in New York City �� Selena Gomez and Camilo, ‘999’ On “999,” Selena Gomez vies with Camilo for who can whisper-sing more quietly. Their voices, harmonizing and dialoguing, share a duet about infatuation, distance and anticipation: “I don’t have photos with
Jerry Harkness, 81, Dies; Star of a Historic Integrated Basketball Team
Jerry Harkness, a former All-American forward who led Loyola University Chicago’s integrated basketball team to the 1963 N.C.A.A. championship, along the way defeating a Mississippi State team that had previously refused to play against Black athletes, died on Tuesday in Indianapolis. He was 81. The death, in a hospital, was
Afghan Journalist Sarwary: Leaving Was Most Painful Journey of My Life
DOHA (Reuters) – Afghan journalist Bilal Sarwary began his career in 2001 helping cover the U.S. bombing of Afghanistan and subsequent fall of the Taliban. Never in the 20 years since did he imagine Kabul would once again fall to the Islamist militant group, he said. Explainer: Who is Kremlin