Test Yourself on Early American Literature
Welcome to Lit Trivia, the Book Review’s regular quiz about literary culture. This week’s installment celebrates the popular literature and […]
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Match These Books to Their Movie Versions
Welcome to Great Adaptations, the Book Review’s regular multiple-choice quiz about books that have gone on to find new life
Sam Keen, Philosopher of the Men’s Movement, Is Dead at 93
Sam Keen, a pop psychologist and philosopher whose best-selling book “Fire in the Belly: On Being a Man” urged men
What’s His Age Again? Blink-182’s Mark Hoppus (Now 53) Looks Back.
“I remember that first Roxy show being mildly terrified and looking over at Mark cracking jokes,” said Skiba, who went
A Hare, a Fox, an Owl, a Snail: Animal Memoirs Are Going Wild
For much of her life, Catherine Raven felt worthless. Then she befriended a fox. After growing up in an abusive
2 Books With Celebrity Cameos
Dear readers, To live in this city is sometimes to be subject to random, unheralded encounters with the great and
When the Walls Close In on the ‘Wolf Hall’ Saga
Mark Rylance sat quietly and alone, his black-capped head bowed, his eyes closed. Nearby in a grand chamber, Damian Lewis
He Dreamed Up Bosch and the Lincoln Lawyer. It All Started With L.A.
On Dec. 10, Michael Connelly stood on the patio behind his house in the Hollywood Hills and gazed down at
Laura Sessions Stepp, Who Reported on Teenage Sex, Dies at 73
Laura Sessions Stepp, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist for The Washington Post whose reporting on teenage sex and “hookup” culture on
Why Are We So Obsessed With the Color Blue?
WHY, INDEED, HAVE writers been so drawn to the color? According to surveys, blue is by far the world’s most