Tag: Nonfiction
Birds as revelations: Atwood writes foreword for Gibson book
NEW YORK — When Margaret Atwood would receive invitations over the years to literary events around the world, literature wasn't the only factor shaping...
O’Farrell’s ‘Hamnet’ wins book critics award for fiction
NEW YORK — Maggie O'Farrell's “Hamnet,” an imagined take on the death of Shakespeare's son from the bubonic plague, has won the National Book...
Morris Dickstein, influential critic-historian, dead at 81
NEW YORK — Morris Dickstein, an influential educator, critic and cultural historian who wrote often about the intersection between art and society, has died...
Review: Vibrant new portrait of artist Helen Frankenthaler
“Fierce Poise: Helen Frankenthaler and 1950s New York,” by Alexander Nemerov (Penguin Press)
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Vivian Gornick, 7 others win Windham-Campbell Prizes
NEW YORK — Playwright Michael R. Jackson, author-critic Vivian Gornick and fiction and nonfiction writer Renee Gladman are among this year's winners of Windham-Campbell...
Garth Greenwell, Douglas Stuart among Lambda award nominees
NEW YORK — Fiction by Garth Greenwell and Douglas Stuart and nonfiction by author-comedian Samantha Irby are among this year's nominees for the Lambda...
Review: Take a ride into the greatest frontier in science
“The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing and the Future of the Human Race,” by Walter Isaacson (Simon & Schuster)
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Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Julie Tanous cook up a friendship
NEW YORK — A chance meeting at a dinner party by two people reluctant to be at that dinner party has resulted in a...
Review: 100 women use their cameras to capture public life.
“Women Street Photographers,” edited by Gulnara Samoilova (Prestel)
When Parisian authorities...
Billie Jean King memoir ‘All In’ to be published in August
NEW YORK — Billie Jean King has a memoir coming this summer, and she calls it a journey to her “authentic self.”
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