Harvard Removes Binding of Human Skin From Book in Its Library
[ad_1] The book arrived at Harvard in 1934, via the American diplomat John B. Stetson, an heir to the hat fortune. It had been bound by its first owner, Dr. Ludovic Bouland, a French doctor, who inserted a handwritten note saying that “a book about the human soul deserved to have a human covering.” A memo from Stetson, according to Houghton, More...
Marjorie Perloff, Leading Scholar of Avant-Garde Poetry, Dies at 92
[ad_1] Marjorie Perloff, whose incisive, at times idiosyncratic readings of avant-garde artists like Ezra Pound, John Cage and John Ashbery made her one of the world’s leading scholars of contemporary poetry, More...
Cynthia Nixon Knows What Poem She Wants Read at Her Funeral
[ad_1] Cynthia Nixon hadn’t been onstage since 2017, when she and Laura Linney alternated the roles of Regina and Birdie in “The Little Foxes.” She wasn’t expecting her comeback to be “The Seven Year More...
Laurent de Brunhoff, Artist Who Made Babar Famous, Dies at 98
[ad_1] Laurent de Brunhoff, the French artist who nurtured his father’s creation, a beloved, very Gallic and very civilized elephant named Babar, for nearly seven decades — sending him, among other places, More...
She Started With a 39-Cent Camera. She Ended Up in Magazines.
[ad_1] Ruth Orkin grew up in Hollywood; her mother was a silent-screen actress, and she began taking pictures at age 10 with a 39-cent Univex. She worked briefly at MGM with the idea of becoming a filmmaker, More...
Amy Tintera Adds a Different Note to the True Crime Podcast Novel
[ad_1] Podcasts have elbowed their way into novels — and onto the best-seller list — with a zeal that’s becoming … familiar. In the past few years, Rebecca Makkai, Denise Mina, Lisa Jewell and Holly More...
Book Review: ‘On Giving Up,’ by Adam Phillips
[ad_1] ON GIVING UP, by Adam Phillips One of the most arresting things about Adam Phillips’s work is how it resists easy summary, dissolving into a trace memory the moment you try to describe it. Over several More...
Book Review: ‘Fervor,’ by Toby Lloyd
[ad_1] FERVOR, by Toby Lloyd In one of the most perceptive of her late essays, “God’s Language,” Toni Morrison sets out her objective as a novelist: “to construct a work in which religious belief is More...
Book Review: ‘The Notebooks of Sonny Rollins’
[ad_1] THE NOTEBOOKS OF SONNY ROLLINS, edited by Sam V.H. Reese. It is possible to imagine the jazz musician Sonny Rollins’s life as a novel, pitched between realism and surrealism in the manner of Ralph More...
Entering the ‘Matrix of Language’ With a Crossword Puzzle Fiend
[ad_1] Anna Shechtman was 15 when she started building crossword puzzles, and 19 when her first puzzle was published in The New York Times. She later helped to found The New Yorker’s crossword section where, More...