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[ad_1] LEFT HER: A Second Chance In Life, Delia Ephron’s photo. (Small, Brown, $29.) Ephron, a screenwriter, essayist and novelist, had a new topic to write about when her husband of 33 years died: loss. Her breadth of topics widened when she was diagnosed with cancer and found love again. It is his memory of …
[ad_1] What is the best book made into a great movie? My first best book was turned into “Tess,” a great movie based on Thomas Hardy’s “Tess of the d’Urbervilles.” Nastassja Kinski is as sublime as Tess; and my mother, who was very critical of me but secretly admired me, said how I looked like …
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[ad_1] POEM “frank: sonnets” by Diane Seuss (Graywolf Press) Seuss has said this collectionThe fifth is a memoir consisting of poems and sonnets that touch on death, birth, loss and addiction. “There is no death in poetry,” begins the single piece. “There is no choking sound in the poems, no smell of blood. I can …
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[ad_1] DIAMONDS AND DEADLINES: The Tale of Greed, Deception and Female Tycoon in the Gilded Age, Betsy Prioleau’s photo. (Abrams, $30.) Prioleau brings delightful gusto into this biography of Ms. Frank Leslie, a Gay Nineties media baroness whose past is full of undercover drama and whose public life is full of scandal and contradictions. But …
[ad_1] Supreme Court, Roe v. As we reassess Wade months shy of his 50th anniversary and possibly prepare to topple him, according to a leaked opinion draft, it’s worth considering how the resolution establishing the constitutional right to abortion has divided our country. Conflict was not inevitable. If abortion is burdened with universal points of …
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[ad_1] VENICE — It begins in the eyes: shy or seductive, open or closed, the watery borders between mind and world. German surrealist has students Unica ZürnConsistent from dense, automatic black wavy lines. Ulla Wiggen’s giant irises, each unique as a fingerprint and capable of unlocking a credit card or blocking a border, painted up …
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[ad_1] LEGACY OF VIOLENCE: British Empire History, By Caroline Elkins. (Knopf, $37.50.) Harvard professor Elkins, who won a Pulitzer for his history of British atrocities in colonial Kenya in 2005, “Imperial Reckoning,” here expands its canvas to describe the colossal degree of violence required to sustain the British Empire and challenges questionable allegations against it. …
[ad_1] What book might people be surprised to find on your shelves? I have all the books by Edna Ferber: “So Big”, “Giant” and others. A few are signed in his gorgeous handwriting style. Don’t start handwriting me! His autobiographies, “A Strange Treasure” and “A Kind of Magic” were not bestsellers, but they should have …
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[ad_1] ‘All the Lovers in the Night,’ by Mieko Kawakami. Translated by Sam Bett and David Boyd. (Europe, 3 May) kawakami, Already celebrated in Japanfor her earlier novels about women’s lives she has acquired a fan base among British readers, “Breasts and Eggs” and “ParadiseHere it focuses on a shy fixer who is rescued from …
[ad_1] In Chantal V. Johnson’s emotionally complex first play, AFTER TRAUMA (312 p., Little, Brown, $28), Vivian, the 30-year-old daughter of a Black father and Puerto Rican mother, works as a state-appointed attorney for minors in a public psychiatric ward in New York. A survivor of sexual abuse as a child, Vivian has a deep …
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[ad_1] meaninglessby Young Vo LULI AND TEA LANGUAGEby Andrea WangIllustrated by Hyewon Yum IT IS FOR BEEAn Alphabet Book in Translationby Ellen Heck It’s easy to appreciate a love of reading at an early age when people ask what led me to start writing dictionaries. But that love was made by growing up in a …
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