- In African Publishing, ‘There Is a Renaissance Going On’by Abdi Latif Dahir on January 19, 2025 at 10:00 am
A new ecosystem of publishers, bookstores, literary magazines and festivals is promoting African writers and changing the stories told about the region.
- Nathalie Dupree, ‘Queen of Southern Cooking,’ Dies at 85by Kim Severson on January 18, 2025 at 2:45 pm
As a cookbook author, TV personality and mentor, she sought to burst the chicken-fried stereotype of the South. Sometimes her life was as messy as her kitchen.
- Book Review: ‘Queen Victoria and Her Prime Ministers,’ by Anne Somerset, and ‘Q: A Voyage Around the Queen,’ by Craig Brownby Geoffrey Wheatcroft on January 18, 2025 at 12:43 pm
Two very different books examine the reigns and legacies of Victoria and Elizabeth II.
- Naomi Watts Thinks David Bowie Was Onto Somethingby Dina Gachman on January 18, 2025 at 10:01 am
“The first album I ever bought was ‘Hunky Dory,’” said the actress and author, “and all those songs, every single one, is amazing.”
- Book Review: ‘The Uncollected Stories of Mavis Gallant’by Laurence Scott on January 18, 2025 at 10:00 am
Mavis Gallant wrote short stories full of brutal humor that examined the hell of other people.
- Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, 90, Dies; Her Internment Inspired a Memoirby Richard Sandomir on January 18, 2025 at 3:02 am
In “Farewell to Manzanar,” she wrote about the years she and her family were imprisoned in a camp for Japanese Americans. It became the basis for a TV movie.