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In the Game of Thrones you either win or die. Famous last words from Cersei, who went out with a rather disappointing whimper – and a bit of a thud – under some carefully placed falling brickwork. All the way through, everyone was convinced the big showdown would be between fire and ice, Daenerys and […]
“Why does climate change cast a much smaller shadow on literature than it does on the world?” asked the novelist Amitav Ghosh, writing in The Guardian in 2016. “Is it perhaps too wild a stream to be navigated in the accustomed barques of narration?” Ghosh cited just a handful of prominent climate-change novels by authors […]
Kate Braverman, a brash and theatrically dramatic writer whose novels, short stories and poetry were dense with lush and spellbinding imagery, died on Oct. 12 at her home in Santa Fe, N.M. She was 70. Her daughter, Gabrielle Goldstein, said the cause was cardiac arrest. Outspoken and outrageous, Ms. Braverman brought a ferocious energy to […]
The Fixer To the Editor: While reviewing Samantha Power’s new book, “The Education of an Idealist” (Sept. 29), Thomas L. Friedman admits that he has “long wrestled with how much idealism one should allow oneself when advocating for or against the uses of American power abroad.” I can remember that prior to the invasion of […]
My dentist yesterday asked me how everything is going, and since I had a sharp steel pick jammed into my mouth at the time I just shrugged and gave him a little gesture, hands up. “Same old, same old?” he asked, nodding. “You know what I always say about that. I don’t mind same old […]
The memoir, as we know it, was born out of an act of petty larceny. Late one night in the fourth century, a teenager plucked pears off a neighbor’s tree. He didn’t especially want them; he tasted a few and tossed the rest to the hogs. He stole them for the sake of stealing them. […]
Dear book lovers, your next read may be written in the stars… and chosen by stars. Celebrity book clubs are everywhere. It’s not exactly a novel concept — Oprah Winfrey was an early trailblazer in the art of literary tastemaking — but over the past decade, famous folks like Reese Witherspoon, Emma Watson, and Today’s […]
BARACK AND JOEThe Making of an Extraordinary PartnershipBy Steven Levingston Joe Biden’s first two presidential campaigns were dismal affairs. He was forced to drop out of the 1988 race, several months before the first primary vote was even cast, when it was revealed that he’d plagiarized large portions of his stump speech from the British […]
Harold Bloom, the prodigious literary critic who championed and defended the Western canon in an outpouring of influential books that appeared not only on college syllabuses but also — unusual for an academic — on best-seller lists, died on Monday at a hospital in New Haven. He was 89. His death was confirmed by his […]
EXPOSUREPoisoned Water, Corporate Greed, and One Lawyer’s Twenty-Year Battle Against DuPontBy Robert Bilott with Tom Shroder Robert Bilott never set out to be anyone’s hero. He made his living defending chemical companies at an old-line corporate law firm based in Cincinnati when, just a few months shy of making partner, he received a call from […]