One day, Alma decides she has had enough with the fame game, the big career…
Books
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Crouching over piles of books in a market stall in Cairo one day in the…
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Sometimes when you’re a teenager, you have to plan make-out spots around accessible public bathrooms.…
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Her father, John, was a cashier for the New York Racing Association who gambled, drank…
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Dear readers, Happy Saturday. Today I pop in with two book recommendations — we’re visiting…
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THE MANGO TREE: A Memoir of Fruit, Florida, and Felony, by Annabelle Tometich When her…
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But the Oscar goes to “Eve in Hollywood,” a novella that unfolds during the filming…
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John arrives on the island, and, exploring on his first morning there, falls off a…
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Open “Micrographia” (1665), the otherworldly illustrated treatise by the microscopist Robert Hooke, and you’ll see…
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Neeli Cherkovski, a prolific poet and denizen of beatnik cafes who chronicled the literary ethos…