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A cry in the dark, gentle yet penetrating.At some moment in time immemorial, emerging from some creature, that sound must have been made: A voice was being used to make drama, and...

In 1995 the writer A.E. Hotchner presented Joyce Meskis, owner of the Tattered Cover Book Store in Denver, with a PEN American Center award recognizing her efforts on behalf of freedom of...

She wrote of her life in raw detail with emotional force. But she was not recognized internationally until after her death, when her memoirs were translated into English.

At Tulane University, 1.5 million books and manuscripts were drenched when Hurricane Katrina swept through Louisiana in 2005. In 2018, the University of California, Los Angeles was in talks to receive a...

Banks has served as a DASL on shows including Camille A. Brown’s Broadway revival of “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf,” which starred Alexandria Wailes, a deaf...

The details streaming from leaks and interview teasers in advance of Prince Harry’s memoir, “Spare,” have been sensational, even explosive. News organizations around the world have covered them breathlessly.There’s Harry’s description of...

At least one of us at the Book Review is rolling over a previous year’s resolution.Is this the year I finally finish “Ducks, Newburyport”?! — MJ Franklin, preview editorWhen setting realistic goals,...

From a gilded frame, a red-haired woman eyes the viewer warily. Her gaze is steely, direct and somewhat confrontational. The painting, “Portrait of a Woman” (circa 1575) by the Italian Renaissance master...

Michael Snow, a Canadian painter, jazz pianist, photographer, sculptor and filmmaker best known for “Wavelength” — a humble, relentless, more or less continuous zoom shot that traverses a Lower Manhattan loft into...

It has become an unpleasant gladiatorial rite of passage for tourists to Paris: Trying to view the Mona Lisa, the pensive diva encased in bulletproof glass, through a heaving throng of arms,...