“We have a duty to ask what constitutes the literature of a nation, and in asking this question, we believe it is essential to veer away from the definitions the State provides as to what it thinks constitutes U.S. selfhood,” said the letter, which was written by Ingrid Rojas Contreras,
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Book Review: ‘What Have We Here?,’ by Billy Dee Williams
WHAT HAVE WE HERE? Portraits of a Life, by Billy Dee Williams My first awareness of Billy Dee Williams was the stuff of hushed beauty parlor conversation I was too young to appreciate. “After all these years he’s still fine,” elders whispered in my periphery as they flipped through an
Book Review: “Cocktails With George and Martha” by Philip Gefter
COCKTAILS WITH GEORGE AND MARTHA: Movies, Marriage and the Making of ‘Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?’ by Philip Gefter What a document dump! The most delicious parts of “Cocktails With George and Martha,” Philip Gefter’s unapologetically obsessive new book about “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” — the dark ’n’ stormy,
49ers' George Kittle offers 'fun and special' way to book 'WrestleMania 40' amid fan outrage
NFL players have to be ready for almost any type of question during the Super Bowl’s opening night, and San Francisco 49ers tight end George Kittle was itching for a question about WWE. Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson appeared on SmackDown on Friday and stared down Roman Reigns as the two
Maurice Sendak delights children with new book, 12 years after his death
An image of Mino from Maurice Sendak’s posthumous book Ten Little Rabbits. Maurice Sendak/HarperCollins Publishers hide caption toggle caption Maurice Sendak/HarperCollins Publishers An image of Mino from Maurice Sendak’s posthumous book Ten Little Rabbits. Maurice Sendak/HarperCollins Publishers In Ten Little Rabbits, a new posthumous picture book by Maurice Sendak, Mino
Book Review: ‘Cahokia Jazz,’ by Francis Spufford
CAHOKIA JAZZ, by Francis Spufford Reader, let me ask you a question. How much work are you willing to do to dive into a new novel? Do you want to step into a speculative world frustratingly close to our own? Do you want to spend time in an imaginary city
Book Review: ‘Corey Fah Does Social Mobility,’ by Isabel Waidner
COREY FAH DOES SOCIAL MOBILITY, by Isabel Waidner In the first few pages of Isabel Waidner’s new novel “Corey Fah Does Social Mobility,” our titular character learns that they’ve won “The Award for the Fictionalization of Social Evils,” a literary prize that comes with a substantial cash purse (which Corey,
The Book Behind ‘American Fiction’ Came Out 23 Years Ago. It’s Still Current.
There’s a scene in Percival Everett’s 2001 novel, “Erasure,” in which the main character, a cerebral Black novelist named Thelonious “Monk” Ellison, goes to a bookstore to hunt, as writers often do, for his own books. He finds four of them — including “The Persians,” an “obscure reworking of a
Target pulls Black History Month book that misidentified 3 civil rights icons
A lone shopper heads into a Target store on Jan. 11 in Lakewood, Colo. David Zalubowski/AP hide caption toggle caption David Zalubowski/AP A lone shopper heads into a Target store on Jan. 11 in Lakewood, Colo. David Zalubowski/AP Target says it has pulled a book from its Black History Month
New Panthers coach Dave Canales details 'secret life' of pornography addiction, binge drinking in book
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