Lovers in Exile
Stories from Turkish writer Ayșegül Savaș illuminate the chasms in modern relationships
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Author: Michael Washburn
John Martin Believed in Writers Not Profits
The founder of Black Sparrow Press had a vision that brought us Charles Bukowski, Joyce Carol Oates and many more
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Judge a Book by Its Amazing New Revamped Cover (and Original Art Inside)
The Great Gatsby and others get the Folio Society treatment
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The Fiction of Captain Quint
On the 50th anniversary of ‘Jaws,’ we look at the intriguing literary persona of Robert Shaw, one of its stars
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The Cancellation of Salman Rushdie
A California college invited the ‘Satanic Verses’ author to speak at commencement. Then the trouble started.
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Conduit Books Bucks the Trend
A new publishing house wants to focus on male authors
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‘The Great Gatsby’ at 100
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s critique of the lifestyles of the rich and infamous is as relevant as ever
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Can Anyone Save the Mél?
Budget cuts endanger a French literary icon
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Trump ’60 Minutes’ Lawsuit Threatens Entertainment Deal of the Millennium
Life imitates art in an echo of ‘The Insider’
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What’s Going On At The Kennedy Center?
President Trump brings “culture” into the Culture War
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Ambrose Bierce, Muckraker
A Seattle publisher issues a new series of the iconoclast’s collected nonfiction, with all its merciless exposure of fraud and abuse
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Joyce Carol Oates Has Still Got It
The 86-year-old author’s collection Flint Kill Creek serves up timely and powerful narratives of desperation and struggle
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Yukio Mishima and Donald Keene, Together Again
A new exhibit, timed just before the centennial of Mishima’s birth, shines light on the controversial author’s life and work
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‘Gambling Man’: Masayoshi Son’s Wild Ride
Book about SoftBank CEO will please admirers and give ammo to critics
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Memories of “Kafka In Taiwan”
A recently-closed exhibit in Taipei attests to the far-reaching influence of the Czech modernist more than a century after his death
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