Tag: Books and literature
Review: Michelle Pfeiffer has a feast with ‘French Exit’
<p>Is there any living actor better at the disdainful eye roll than Michelle Pfeiffer? Her latest turn in “ <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqMJeE15YiA">French Exit</a> ” should...
‘Captain Underpants’ book pulled for ‘passive racism’
<p>NEW YORK — A graphic novel for children from the wildly popular “Captain Underpants” series is being pulled from library and book store shelves...
Review: A bear’s life tells the history of global warming
<p>“The Loneliest Polar Bear: A True Story of Survival and Peril on the Edge of a Warming World,” by Kale Williams (Crown)</p>
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‘Captain Underpants’ book pulled for ‘passive racism’
NEW YORK — A graphic novel for children from the wildly popular “Captain Underpants” series is being pulled from library and book store shelves...
Review: A bear’s life tells the history of global warming
“The Loneliest Polar Bear: A True Story of Survival and Peril on the Edge of a Warming World,” by Kale Williams (Crown)
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O’Farrell’s ‘Hamnet’ wins book critics award for fiction
<p>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...
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...
New ‘Lord of the Rings’ edition to include Tolkien artwork
<p>NEW YORK — An upcoming edition of J.R.R. Tolkien's “The Lord of the Rings” trilogy will include paintings, drawings and other illustrations by the...
Poet Amanda Gorman revisits inaugural triumph with Oprah
<p>LOS ANGELES — Amanda Gorman revisits her inauguration day poetry reading that wowed observers, among them Oprah Winfrey, in the Apple TV+ series “The...
Morris Dickstein, influential critic-historian, dead at 81
<p>NEW YORK — Morris Dickstein, an influential educator, critic and cultural historian who wrote often about the intersection between art and society, has died...