Books, Arts, and Culture

In honor of the dog days of summer, I’ve put together a list of books with heat. These are books where the hot setting—be it the...

Books are important to the texture of everyday life in Orange Is the New Black, which is based on a memoir and recently concluded after seven seasons....

Critical Linking, a daily roundup of the most interesting bookish links from around the web, sponsored by David Baldacci’s One Good Deed. “I’ve had conversations about...

I’m not the only writer to wonder whether books are still an appropriate medium to convey the frightening speed of environmental upheaval. But the environment is...

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Wedding gifts are hard. The registries are right there, and they represent what the couple actually needs in their life, but I always find myself drawn...

Reading celebrity memoirs almost always ends up being one of my favorite reading experiences. Poetic insight into the lives of one of my favorite stars? AND...

Fifty years ago, in the Atlas mountain city of Marrakech, a group of leading Moroccan artists hung their dazzlingly experimental abstract paintings in the Jemaa el-Fna,...

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