| 单词 | write of |
| 例句 | In short, I was writing of something I did not know about, and it seems to me that in a so-called writer this is criminal. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z The writing of Native Son was to me an exciting, enthralling, and even a romantic experience. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z “You will never write of it. No one will ever know. Do you understand me?” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Ramus, as we have seen, writes of the ‘laws’ of Ptolemy and of Euclid. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Bacon writes of ‘the law of nature and the mutual contracts of things’: he is paraphrasing Lucretius. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z That somewhere is the writing of other writers. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z I tried to smile, but I could not see how his purpose was served by writing of me this way. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Yet such a flow of blood must be a natural wonder that physicians have surely witnessed and philosophers written of. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z He has very little to say about any of the myths the Greek tragedians write of. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z When we write of ‘laws of nature’ the word ‘laws’, too, is being used in a metaphorical sense. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z An agent wrote of the bombing of the Smiths’ house, “The two women perished instantly, their bodies being blown asunder, and pieces of their flesh being later found plastered on a house 300 feet away.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z The oldest preserved Chinese writing of the late Shang Dynasty consists of religious divination about dynastic affairs, incised into so-called oracle bones. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Runes were carved into the golden bands, die writing of the First Men. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z She writes of elevators, train stations, buildings so high, they hurt the neck to see. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z “I had broken my engagement,” she later wrote of that time. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z “This will be your new pen pal for tonight’s assignment. You’ll have to write this person a note using the writing of ancient Egyptians.” Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z I read her bubbly writing of a poem called “I, Too.” Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z The novelist Jim Harrison once wrote of dancing for five hours in Mexico with “a maiden who resembled a beige bowling ball.” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z In fact, the novel, as time passed, grew upon me to the extent that it became a necessity to write it; the writing of it turned into a way of living for me. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Linear B, the writing of Mycenaean Greece, was at least simpler, being based on a syllabary of about 90 signs plus logograms. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z It had writing of some kind, though it seems not to have been used much; in any case the script has not been deciphered. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z I turned off my lamp and moved aside the limp curtains, thinking of Ned and looking for the big orange harvest moon he’d written of. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z After their first meeting, Descartes wrote of him: “I could not believe that a single mind could occupy itself with so many things, and equip itself so well in all of them.” Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z At the writing of this, I can tell you that I am somewhere between one hundred sixty and one hundred eighty years old, although I don't enjoy looking my age. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z He writes of a Greek holiday called No. I reply that all teenagers in the world should celebrate this day. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z Curiously enough, they inspired artists to make statues and pictures of them far more than poets to write of them. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z I’m sure you are wondering about the activities I wrote of earlier. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Ishmael gave himself to the writing of it, and as he did so he understood this, too: that accident ruled every corner of the universe except the chambers of the human heart. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z He was practicing the writing of his signature. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z In one of his rare curt letters, Lord Balon had written of his youngest brother going down in a storm, and turning holy when he washed up safe on shore. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z As John Aubrey put it more than a century later, Recorde ‘was the first that wrote a good arithmetical treatise in English’ and ‘the first that ever wrote of astronomie in the English tongue’. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z I wrote of pain and suffering and death. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z I wrote of an Indian maiden, beautiful and reserved, who sat alone upon the bank of a still stream, surrounded by eternal twilight and ancient trees, waiting . Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z She reviewed the production of Grease at the Unitarian Church and Guys and Dolls at the high school: “Rollicking,” she wrote of one; “Sit Down; They’re Rocking the Boat!” she wrote of the other. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Although each of those systems used distinctive sets of signs not borrowed from Egypt or Sumer, the peoples involved could hardly have been unaware of the writing of their neighboring trade partners. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “Of course I know it,” she answer, and with a pause, add: “Have not my Jonathan travelled it and wrote of his travel?” Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z The merchant passed on to him the writing of important letters and orders, and grew accustomed to conferring with him about all important affairs. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z But I have written of this matter enough and I know you are weary of it. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z His officers wrote of their regret that they had lost “such an excellent Commander, such a sincere Friend, and so affable a Companion.” George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z When Cicero writes of the orbis he sometimes means the habitable dry land, a disk rising above the waves, and sometimes the whole globe of land and ocean. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “They get angry when they read about how filthy they are,” Hunter Thompson later wrote of the Hell’s Angels, “but instead of shoplifting some deodorant, they strive to become even filthier.” Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 2001-01-17T00:00:00Z And after the battle, I could not write of it; words seemed insufficient. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Syllabaries were common in ancient times, as exemplified by the Linear B writing of Mycenaean Greece. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z It was once written of Mackintosh, “His gut is famous.” Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z Rather, I write of my life, beginning with my earliest memories and including all events leading to my late woes. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z “The critical moment in the development of the young shepherd’s reputation is his first quarrel,” the ethnographer J. K. Campbell writes of one herding culture in Greece. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z At the writing of this book the ghetto of Alexandra had just been saved from extinction by Bishop Desmond Tutu, winner of the 1984 Nobel Peace Prize, and a group of clergymen. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Since the writing of this story, I have spoken to Luke about the incident. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Soon, I trust, those conventions will be every bit as mysterious as the ones that governed the writing of Whig political history. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z But Descartes and his authorized translator from Latin into French never write of la loy de nature. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Pyle wrote of the shooting, “The experience affected Warden White, as it would anyone. It didn’t make him afraid, but it made him jumpy, and kind of haunted.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Thus from 1660 on ‘experimental philosophy’ became a widely used label for a science relying on experiments; no one wrote of an ‘experiential philosophy’. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The Romans wrote of her in the same way. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z The mere writing of it will be more fun and a deeper satisfaction than any praise or blame from anybody. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z How hard it had been to write of Papá’s death, far harder than to tell Aunt Consuelo that she and Salvador expected to find work in Indio. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z Today I cannot write of Ayortha or my doings or anything. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z But in the writing of scene after scene I was guided by but one criterion: to tell the truth as I saw it and felt it. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z But it crushed me with hopelessness, for I wanted to write of the people in my environment with an equal thoroughness, and the burning example before my eyes made me feel that I never could. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z “He was alone,” as James Joyce wrote of Stephen Dedalus, his artist as a young man. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The Greeks wrote of to hoti, ‘that which is’, and scholastic philosophers asked an sit, ‘whether it is’. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The actual writing of the book began with the scene in the pool room. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Thus both Copernicus and Francis Bacon wrote of astronomers ‘feigning’ eccentrics and epicycles—they meant these are imaginary entities. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z In a country where the writing of political slogans on walls was considered a serious crime, talking about political matters was tantamount to treason, punishable by hanging, if you were black. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z “Home? This is my home now. Here I will stay and write of Therese.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z William wrote of attention in 1890: “Everyone knows what attention is. It is the taking possession of the mind in clear and vivid form out of what seem several simultaneous objects or trains of thought.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z How do you write of one who tells you more stories than you need to know? Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z The witty, clever lad that Lord Steffon had written of never reached Storm's End; the boy they found was someone else, broken in body and mind, hardly capable of speech, much less of wit. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Those who witnessed it have written of the terror and the awe they felt as they watched these two extraordinary wizards do battle. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z “Well,” he wrote of the cost of the medevac, “it could be worse. Getting him on the plane is the only way to save his life, so I’m for it.” Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z “Nearly half of the members of the metropolitan bar earned less than the minimum subsistence level for American families,” Jerold Auerbach writes of the Depression years in New York. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z It was not until I went to live in Chicago that I first thought seriously of writing of Bigger Thomas. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z “Lord Snow, if I may ask ... this wildling princess His Grace King Stannis wrote of... where might she be, my lord?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z She wrote of her hopes to her sister Anna. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z So by the time he got back home in August, Charles was well into the writing of his book. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z It can help rid their writing of errors, dead ends, and confusing passages. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z “Do not blame me,” Baldwin wrote of the white “stammering” in his conscience. The South’s Fight for White Supremacy 2020-08-23T04:00:00Z “We have to say yes to that fate,” she writes of mortality, “and it’s hard, the hardest.” New & Noteworthy 2018-08-21T04:00:00Z It’s literary writing of a sort that says, Come as you are. ‘On Fire’ Makes Bad Habits Sound Very Sweet 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z Indeed, as the critic Frank Kermode wrote of the volume, “It is hard to avoid epithets like ‘voracious.’ Lewis M. Dabney, Scholar Who Made Edmund Wilson Focus of His Life’s Work, Dies at 83 2015-12-26T05:00:00Z They’re all flawed in their own ways, but as Gaines writes of his imperfect family, “We were just another frayed thread in an infinite tapestry.” ‘Inside My Head I’m a Girl’: Three Ways of Growing Up Gay 2016-08-16T04:00:00Z In her memoir "The Road of Lost Innocence," Somaly Mam wrote of being sold into sex slavery, then eventually making her way to freedom and working to make sure other girls escaped that fate. Sex slavery activist Somaly Mam quits foundation after book probe 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z “This will be the last review I write of ‘The Killing,’ because this will be the last time I watch ‘The Killing.’ Can ?The Killing? Make a Comeback? 2012-03-18T03:49:06Z In “Notes on the Cinematograph,” Bresson’s scattered, collected musings on filmmaking, the director writes of striving to remove any signs of mental activity from his performers; he wanted to capture the “automatism of real life.” Want to Try a Robert Bresson Film? Look to Clint Eastwood 2020-05-14T04:00:00Z “The darkness was a fact in my life now,” the British expat writes of the terror he experiences before being permitted to a board a plane to freedom and his home in California. Summer Reading: Travel Books 2011-06-03T22:09:16Z As did many, many other North American painters, often stylistically inspired — directly or indirectly — by the hugely influential teaching and writing of painter Arthur Wesley Dow. Steve Martin-curated Lawren Harris exhibition shines light on landscapes physical and metaphorical 2015-10-23T04:00:00Z Why should anyone want to murder a harmless minor poet who writes of buttercups and daisies and the delights of rural life? Classic Crime Novels That Still Thrill Today 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z “There’s one thing to be said in favor of life at The Pines,” MacDonald wrote of her first night in the sanitarium. The plucky author behind the classic Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle books 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z He writes of how the two of them tried to expose their children to the basics of major religions and then “let the free market of ideas settle the debate as they thought it through.” Timothy Egan Makes Room for the Holy Spirit 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z A man wrote of the video game “Final Fantasy 15,” “I was mostly fine, but then the song ‘Stand By Me’ started playing, hearkening back to the game’s silly beginning, and I lost it.” From ‘Game of Thrones’ to a Subaru ad, here’s what makes Washington Post readers cry 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z “There’s just a deeper level of sophistication in the writing of female characters on TV,” added Vera Farmiga of Bates Motel. How Women Are Doing on TV, According to the Emmys 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z He admired the writing of Mark Twain and continued to read literary fiction and historical books throughout his life. Mose Allison, who sang the blues with whimsy and a twist of jazz, dies at 89 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z I guess I did wrestle with this, off and on, during the writing of the piece. Don Cheadle on playing the drug-addled Miles Davis in “Miles Ahead,” and the toxic costs of Hollywood racism 2016-03-29T04:00:00Z I realized this year how much I missed the dry, probing and ultimately witty writing of Michael Kinsley. When Reading Had No End 2020-12-09T05:00:00Z "This book is as much about him as it is me," Hook writes of Curtis, who struggled through medical, financial and romantic upheaval throughout Joy Division's lifespan. Joy Division bassist delivers 'Pleasure'-able read 2013-02-04T17:28:09Z Even before returning to the throne in 1660, Charles II wrote of his desire to respect the “liberty of the tender consciences” of his subjects. Exhibition Review: Folger Library Traces London’s Rise 2012-06-28T22:04:46Z One critic wrote of Krenek’s opera that it “embodied our technical era of the machine.” David Lang’s ‘whisper opera’ Mines Truths From the Web 2013-08-02T18:57:04Z The dramatic events that followed the writing of this letter make it rather sad. Van Gogh and Gauguin letter tells of artistic hopes that turned sour 2012-11-23T18:12:13Z “We were learning to adapt, to knit ourselves into a solid and forever form of us,” she writes of the first months of her marriage to Barack. Reading Michelle Obama's "Becoming" as a Motherhood Memoir 2019-02-05T05:00:00Z Throughout “Standing for Reason,” Sexton writes of the “moral authority” necessary for a university president. The Professor and the Adjunct 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z As she writes of the moment she learned she had booked “iCarly,” “Everything’s going to be better. Mom will finally be happy. Her dream has come true.” Jennette McCurdy Is Ready to Move Forward, and to Look Back 2022-08-03T04:00:00Z We knew, from our end, we could do all the writing of that and make it cool. Q&A: Parker, Stone talk 'South Park' game at E3 2013-06-13T13:44:08Z As she paints images for us of Daniel's brief life under the waves as a seal, she shows writing of the highest order: subtle, powerful, poetic. The Brides of Rollrock Island by Margo Lanagan ?review 2012-02-10T22:56:00Z The writing of that book is the subject of this biographical film, which won Philip Seymour Hoffman an Academy Award for best actor. What’s on TV Wednesday: ‘How to Train Your Dragon’ and the Real Oz 2019-08-28T04:00:00Z In the first half, Anderson shares her own experience and how it led to the writing of “Speak.” Laurie Halse Anderson shocked readers with a book about rape. She’s at it again. 2018-06-11T04:00:00Z “God knows, we were a dappled bunch that day,” Schulz writes of their storm-punctuated nuptials, riffing on Gerard Manley Hopkins. ‘Lost & Found’ Ponders Profound Grief Alongside Newfound Love 2022-01-04T05:00:00Z In the program, the creators write of their own alarm at living in a species-devastating age that some call “the Sixth Extinction,” as Elizabeth Kolbert does in her book of the same name. Review: A Cast of 87 Sounds a Climate Change Alarm 2017-09-24T04:00:00Z “Our lifetime of disconnection, finally explained,” she writes of her lack of kinship with the woman she believed to be her half sister. Dani Shapiro’s New Memoir Uncovers a Life-Changing Family Secret 2019-01-15T05:00:00Z Mr. Fest writes of summer vacations on his uncle’s farm, childhood friendships and his passionate engagement with the poets, painters and composers who nourished the soul in an era of spiritual poverty. Books of The Times: ‘Not I,’ a Memoir by Joachim Fest 2014-02-18T22:45:43Z He later wrote of hearing the roar of warplanes in a “great migratory flight” carrying troops to parachute or glide into France on the eve of the attack. Sir John Keegan, Historian Who Put a Face on War, Dies at 78 2012-08-03T01:01:09Z "Paramedics were on a call when male jumped in and drove off," the Houston Police wrote of the incident on Twitter. Texas man steals ambulance, drives it to fast-food restaurant's drive-thru with emergency lights flashing 2021-01-22T05:00:00Z “Haffner’s book was by far the best written of the contemporary literature on the question of unemployed, delinquent youth at the end of Weimar,” he said. A Gritty Weimar Portrait of Youth Gangs, Restored to Renewed Acclaim 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z “He loves collaborative creation and encourages involvement, so I started throwing him ideas of a scene, not for a video,” Mr. LaBeouf wrote of Mr. von Trier. ArtsBeat: For His Latest Transformation, Shia LaBeouf Discusses His Short Film ‘Haunted Love’ 2013-05-15T13:00:07Z The former archbishop wrote of how he challenged his own thinking as he re-read the Scriptures. Former archbishop lends his support to campaign to legalise right to die 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z He wrote of the painting as "the noblest seascape ever painted by man". Aquatopia: art on the ocean wave 2013-07-22T17:25:00Z He writes of his wilderness years in Newark after being expelled from Rutgers for threatening a student with a knife. ‘The Education of Kevin Powell’: An activist and ex-MTV star looks back 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z “The autobiography of the emperor Nero’s mother, Agrippina,” Ms. Beard writes of the missing book, “must count as one of the saddest losses of classical literature.” Review: In ‘SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome,’ Mary Beard Tackles Myths and More 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z Filled with tremulous beauty, the film is — as Thoreau wrote of his “Journal” — a record of joy and ecstasy. Jonas Mekas: A Poet With a Movie Camera 2019-01-27T05:00:00Z Immerse yourself, as a writer, in the classic writing of the past. Road test your writing by reading aloud 2011-03-07T10:07:46Z In a memorable phrase, he wrote of how the lack of a territorial rival had helped keep "America rocking in the cradle of its continental security". Why Reinhold Niebuhr matters now 2011-07-21T11:45:29Z A poet who writes of the "huge and birdless silence" instantly evokes a crowd of birds. Alice by Judith Hermann ? review 2011-08-19T21:55:06Z Torres, who was a college freshman when he began dating So, finds consolation in the writing of someone so close that it sometimes seemed as if they shared thoughts. A Rising Star’s Career Was Cut Short. His Impact Is Just Beginning. 2021-07-19T04:00:00Z “Melodies that should be coherent are often broken up,” he wrote of deficient flute playing. Perspective | How Bjork, Future and the brightest minds in jazz tried to save 2017 with magic flutes 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z She wrote of the violence other women, including those she knows, have faced while running, and how it's affected them. I’m not running scared: On Mollie Tibbetts and rejecting the fear of jogging alone 2018-08-27T04:00:00Z She wrote of her disappointment after he was passed over for a promotion.” Motherlode Blog: An Accused Soldier's Family Life, Seen Through a Blog 2012-03-19T15:40:21Z When Jin writes of one character, "His voice was somehow devoid of any emotion," he could just as well be describing his book. 'Nanjing Requiem': missionary at a massacre 2011-12-14T22:51:04Z “He makes his vulnerabilities and insecurities your responsibility,” Mary Trump writes of her uncle. Perspective | The weird masculinity of Donald Trump 2020-07-15T04:00:00Z In spoken remarks and in a program note, Shaw said the piece was inspired by the writing of Marilynne Robinson, specifically its “lilt and rhythm,” which she attempted to capture in her music. With remarkable concert at Soka, the young Calidore String Quartet declares: Take note 2016-11-07T05:00:00Z "If I could eat this soup every day this winter, I would be happy," Petersen wrote of her recipe. I tried Reddit's viral, creamy, tortellini-packed "The Soup" — and it was totally worth it 2023-01-16T05:00:00Z “I hope that Lori knows that I am forever grateful for her part in the writing of the song,” Flack wrote. She sang ‘Killing Me Softly’ before Roberta Flack. Now she just wants you to hear her side of the story. 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z In his introduction, Bolaño writes of Kerouac’s “need to perturb the neutral spaces of everyday life, transforming them.” Roberto Bolaño and the Beat Connection 2019-03-03T05:00:00Z “The first draft I wrote of the book was such garbage. It was so bad.” Ryan O’Connell on Thought Catalog, trolling & the Millennial angst tipping point: “The more you write about your personal life, the less you have one” 2015-05-23T04:00:00Z In her note, Walsh writes of climate change, rising sea levels and “wisdom drowned in the oceans during the many passages of immigrants all over the world.” Review | In the galleries: Crossing the line between aesthetics and science 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z Everything she writes of this is wonderful: descriptions of 1903 films of it, an account of the sociology that produced it, reports of its being danced in London high society. Review: In Megan Pugh’s ‘America Dancing,’ a Focus on Where the Moves Came From 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z The narrator of her poem “Last Words” writes of not trusting the spirit, which “escapes like steam” and “won’t come back.” Who Bought Sylvia Plath’s Stuff? 2018-04-21T04:00:00Z Feldman writes of her early financial and emotional struggles as a single mother in Manhattan and then in a rural area outside the city, feeling with increasing urgency the magnetism of Europe. Review | For ‘Unorthodox’ fans, Deborah Feldman’s new memoir offers intriguing update 2021-08-27T04:00:00Z The early medieval author known as Pseudo-Jerome wrote of Christian extremists: “Because they love the name martyr and because they desire human praise more than divine charity, they kill themselves.” How Christians Destroyed the Ancient World 2018-06-08T04:00:00Z “He was the first person,” Leith writes of Aristotle, “really to grasp that the study of rhetoric is the study of humanity itself.” “Tubes”: What the Internet is made of 2012-05-28T00:30:00Z Before a mirror had meaning," she writes of herself, "before my skin was a boundary, I remember nature as if it were inside me. Kith: The Riddle of the Childscape by Jay Griffiths – review 2013-04-28T08:00:18Z Titillating stories of faraway lands date to at least as far back as the fifth century B.C., when Herodotus wrote of a goat-footed people far to the north, and of the cannibals beyond them. A Journey Along the River That Separates Russia From China 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z A chance meeting led to the writing of a one-off television comedy-drama, I Saw You, starring Fay Ripley, then at the height of her Cold Feet fame. David Nicholls, the man who made a nation cry 2011-08-06T23:05:39Z He wrote once that: "It seems to me nonsense, in a period like our own, to think that one can avoid writing of such subjects." The brutal death of Baha Mousa 2013-05-03T10:53:56Z Of course, as the historian Richard Drayton points out, the writing of British imperial history, has long been a "patriotic enterprise". The ruins of empire: Asia's emergence from western imperialism 2012-07-27T07:00:04Z In “American Fictionary,” she describes the writing of the essays as a period of creating order “at a time when all of my words scattered.” Dubravka Ugresic Returns to America 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z One of the things that occurs to me is the sober writing of political history is impossible for this election. The Simpsons' Matt Groening: 'President Trump? It's beyond satire' | First Dog on the Moon 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z In the memoir, Obama writes of her childhood and upbringing, her marriage and family, and her time in the White House. Michelle Obama’s Memoir ‘Becoming’ Will Be a Netflix Documentary 2020-04-27T04:00:00Z How did your own fatherhood influence the inspiration for the book and the writing of it? ArtsBeat: Noah Hawley Talks About His New Novel, 'The Good Father' 2012-03-21T15:29:13Z They have to be residents of Oregon and two people have to witness the writing of the request, at least one of whom cannot be a beneficiary of their estate. Why a Young Woman with Brain Cancer Moved to Oregon to Die 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z The composer's most recent biographer, Paul Kildea, writes of Britten "dealing with the suffocating awfulness of the British class system" when he started work on this new comedy. Britten's comic hero Albert Herring: the only virgin in the village 2013-05-08T17:59:01Z He wrote of Columbus Day that the extermination of the Native Americans should be celebrated as a fact of historical progress. Christopher Hitchens: from socialist to neocon 2013-01-18T13:01:01Z In “Iris and Her Friends” he wrote of his loneliness growing up on the English coast, coping with a stutter, feeling ignored by his older, sportier brothers. John Bayley, Oxford Don Who Wrote of His Wife, Iris Murdoch, Dies at 89 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z In extensive program notes, Mr. Sliwinski wrote of the official acts of redaction the group encountered in the course of its research. ‘A Gun Show’ Raises Questions Beyond the Music 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z Husky House wrote of Jubilee in a statement to Fox News. Jubilee, a shelter dog with 'weird' eyes, finds forever home after going viral on Facebook 2020-01-20T05:00:00Z It traces the title character’s life along the Tennessee River in the spirit of a “doomed Huckleberry Finn,” as The Times wrote of the book. A Guide to Cormac McCarthy’s Books 2023-06-13T04:00:00Z She wrote of the Louisiana Native Guard, a black Civil War regiment assigned to guard white Confederate soldiers held on Ship Island off Mississippi's Gulf Coast. Natasha Trethewey named 19th US poet laureate 2012-06-07T02:59:08Z Around middle school a writing mentor introduced me to the writing of Sonia Sanchez, and gave me a book of her new and selected poems, “Shake Loose My Skin.” Amanda Gorman, the Inaugural Poet Who Dreams of Writing Novels 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z In among the dross there are revelations, there are magnificent descriptions, there is writing of remarkable force and power. Sons and Lovers: a bad book by a very good writer 2013-06-20T15:35:02Z Looking at the frail instrument built in 1740, with all its strings missing, Mr. Elie writes of how amazing it is to think that the discolored keys “were worn down by Bach himself.” Books of The Times: ‘Reinventing Bach,’ by Paul Elie 2012-10-07T20:25:38Z As for his father’s drinking, he writes of a sad downward slide that led to frequent job changes. Books of The Times: ?My Long Trip Home,? by Mark Whitaker - Review 2011-11-06T22:34:42Z Like all memes, the Delta variant ones “offer an opportunity for a collective, collaborative writing of the past, present and future,” said Dr. Woods. So, You’ve Been Cast as the Delta Variant 2021-08-17T04:00:00Z Yet I was reminded of what the opera critic Michael Scott wrote of the great soprano Lotte Lehmann: “And her faults, what of them?” Review: At 53, an Effortless Return to Dance ‘Romeo and Juliet’ 2016-06-24T04:00:00Z In the opening chapter of My Life in Orange, he writes of a boy who hanged himself at a Bhagwan community in Britain. The strange life of Tim Guest 2010-03-28T00:05:00Z Boyd: Do you know the history of the writing of Sherlock Holmes is that the writer — he got sick of writing it? "LOTR" stars reunite for "Moriarty," in which Sherlock Holmes' nemesis is "justified in everything" 2022-07-17T04:00:00Z Carrington flees France with friends but writes of how her body began to “jam,” seized by a kind of psychological vertigo. Leonora Carrington, the surrealist storytelling genius you've never heard of 2017-05-05T04:00:00Z “The continuity of his line,” Arlene Croce once wrote of the British choreographer Frederick Ashton, referring to his “Monotones,” “is like that of a master-draftsman whose pen never leaves the paper.” Critic?s Notebook: Line in Dance? Let?s Go Back to the Drawing Board 2011-01-31T23:58:51Z “His voice was like a bulldozer and always seemed too loud for the little room,” Mr. Dylan wrote of Mr. Young in his 2004 memoir “Chronicles.” Settled in Sweden, the Man Who First Booked Dylan 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z He writes of both the natural beauty and extreme dangers of El Salvador, and the pretension he found at a turtle sanctuary/pelican retreat. In ‘The Wonder Trail,’ Steve Hely Takes a Comedic Detour 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z It’s a portrait of a playwright’s coming of age as reflected in the writing of the play. Review: ‘What I Did Last Summer,’ a Letter of Apology From an Ex-Teenager 2015-05-17T04:00:00Z He quoted the journalist David Finkel, who wrote of a group of veterans that “every one of them came home broken in various degrees, even the ones who are fine.” Colbert Honors StoryCorps’s Military Voices Initiative 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z "A powerful film, its dramatic brush strokes broad and colourful, its psychological points made with considerable subtlety and wit," French wrote of Django Unchained, " … it places Tarantino among the most impressive film-makers at work today." All that bloody mayhem and we're still supposed to take Django Unchained seriously? 2013-01-25T17:00:01Z When I heavily criticised Dorries in the past, she wrote of me on her blog: "She appears to exist in a fantasy world of her own creation." By going on I'm A Celebrity, Nadine Dorries confirms how deluded she is 2012-11-14T20:00:01Z I took keen notice, for example, when the author Hilary Mantel, in “Bring Up the Bodies,” her acclaimed novel about the court of King Henry VIII, wrote of Anne Boleyn’s unfortunate ties to real tennis. ‘Real Tennis’ May Be Obscure, but It Has Fans in Britain 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z The Bible was his most personal belonging and the margins of each page were filled with his written notes, very delicate and clear writing of his study and interpretations. In the Cultural Revolution, Ai Weiwei’s Father Burned the Family’s Books 2020-12-31T05:00:00Z “To say that it made me ‘very happy’ would be an understatement,” he writes of the glorious moment. The ‘Profusely Illustrated’ Life of Edward Sorel 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z “Looking back, I was perhaps too optimistic about the potential for worker mobility, flexibility, and freedom,” he writes of the first edition of the book. The Creative Class 10 Years Later: Richard Florida on the Future of the Arts and Entertainment Industries 2012-06-26T15:00:10Z In the poem “Third,” she writes of another impossible landscape: “There is spurious mourning, night of the night.” In a Sister’s Elegies, Proof That the Art of Losing Can Bring Comfort 2021-03-24T04:00:00Z He writes of his first meeting with his wife, model Delfina Blaquier: “I looked at her and she looked at me and we looked at each other.” Nacho Figueras to help market a new line of polo romance novels 2015-11-13T05:00:00Z Robert Chandler, a fellow translator, wrote of it: "I know no book that presents a more nuanced picture of Soviet life in the post-Stalin years." Sally Laird obituary 2010-08-10T17:19:00Z I think the joy came in the writing of Michael, because of the humor. Adam Haslett, L.A. Times Book Prize finalist, discusses 'Imagine Me Gone' 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z He wrote of finding “a confused Landskipe,” and complained that “the whole was a Small confusion of many things joined together without any great natural Plan.” An 18th-century Parisian garden of delight can teach us much about what not to do today 2020-12-08T05:00:00Z Had you gotten in touch with him during the writing of the essay or during our editorial process, when I ask writers to give their subjects a heads up? What She Learned From the One Who Got Away 2019-10-18T04:00:00Z She bore three daughters, wore the sari and wrote of India and the Indians as if she were Indian herself. Ruth Prawer Jhabvala obituary 2013-04-03T15:24:01Z “Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive,” Wordsworth would write of those days; “But to be young was very heaven!” J.M.W. Turner: The Romantic Turns Reformist 2022-04-07T04:00:00Z As the architecture critic Ada Huxtable wrote of Breuer’s building, in 1966, “Like that fine old saying about sin, first the Whitney repulses; then it intrigues; and finally it is embraced.” Inside the Breuer Building, After the Whitney and Before the Met 2016-03-12T05:00:00Z Dad or Alive," writing of his daughter after his wife went back to work: "All I had to do was move our four-month-old from one station to the next so she didn't get bedsores. Dark but funny turns in new derelict mom books 2013-04-30T16:46:15Z Another student later wrote of Clinton, “Even then I thought she was way too mainstream, talking the language of the administration, co-opted, all about politics and visibility.” Hillary Clinton lost sleep trying to talk Wellesley students out of Vietnam War protests 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z He might have been speaking of himself in that novel when he wrote of one of its dueling writers: “He didn’t want to please his readers. He wanted to stretch them until they twanged.” Martin Amis, Acclaimed Author of Bleakly Comic Novels, Dies at 73 2023-05-20T04:00:00Z Lahsen reports that Seitz himself wrote of his depression over the new political environment and its attacks on the modernist program of progress through technological advance. Extract: Requiem for a Species by Clive Hamilton 2010-04-16T09:19:00Z With a poem – really, a limerick – of his own, Mr. Gibson writes of Mr. Lewis: That Ox.Prof.Po.Candidate, Candidates for Oxford's Poetry Professor Attack Each Other With (What Else?) Poetry 2010-06-17T13:28:00Z As if that weren’t enough, they also made a video of the writing of the note they left for the husband telling him what his wife was up to, because they’re selfless like that. Twitter vigilantes gone bad: Stop live-tweeting takedowns of harmless strangers in public 2015-07-28T04:00:00Z As the New Yorker’s food writer Helen Rosner wrote of his appeal: “He is never shown holding a puppy, but he seems at any time like he might be.” Yass queens! Queer Eye’s Fab Five on how they are changing men – one makeover at a time 2018-06-11T04:00:00Z In her artist’s statement, Kganye writes of her own mother, “She is me, I am her, and there remains in this commonality so much difference, and so much distance in space and time.” A Daughter’s Ghostly Re-Creations of Her Late Mother’s Old Photographs 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z Photograph: Robin Loznak/Alamy Nature writing is a boom industry in Britain, but it's nature writing of a particular flavour: astringent, controlled, in impeccably good taste. Things That Are: Encounters with Plants, Stars and Animals by Amy Leach – review 2013-06-09T09:00:01Z There’s history here: Robert Louis Stevenson visited winemaker Jacob Schram in the late 19th century and wrote of the wine as “bottled poetry.” ‘Bottled poetry,’ plus 4 other wines to ring in 2016 2015-12-25T05:00:00Z It is the complement in writing of the modern-dress versions of Shakespeare that appeared between the wars. From the Observer archive, 30 December 1951: Festival of Britain fosters a new spirit of inquiry 2012-12-30T00:06:05Z In his early books, Updike wrote of sexual adventure as an antidote to death, a way of "grasping at life." In 'The Violet Hour,' Katie Roiphe looks at five great writers shuffling off this mortal coil 2016-03-04T05:00:00Z “He looks very young, sings and dances to the manner born, is emotionally open and giving, instantly likable, and of course, has talent by the bucket load,” Grant wrote of Harwood in an email. A Young Actor Steps Out of School and Into the High Heels of ‘Jamie’ 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z During the research and writing of the drama I thought often about that conversation with Burn and, looking back, realise that its theme was born during that meeting. Inside the mind of serial killer Fred West 2011-07-31T19:30:01Z Who's to say that a man can't write of the tragic frustrations of a housewife? Why "The Help's" critics are all wrong 2011-08-16T15:59:00Z “It’s going to happen again; that’s the deal,” he writes of depression in his blog. How Your Depression Can Hurt Your Kids' School Performance 2016-02-03T05:00:00Z It was Patti Smith who spoke of, or sang of, or wrote of — she did all of those, how about that? Laurie Anderson and Michael Stipe on Music, Art and New Chapters 2020-05-14T04:00:00Z Here's what O'Farrell wrote of the idea of Margaret Thatcher receiving a state funeral when she – God forbid – dies. Why the satirist John O'Farrell would make a great MP for Eastleigh 2013-02-13T12:55:01Z But Albertine's clarity of expression in these chapters makes them equally propellent: She writes of her middle age, "How does anyone make it through marriage and children and remain a whole person?" Punk, punk, memoir, memoir: Viv Albertine takes center stage 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z In 1993, the British newspaper The Independent wrote of Mr. Sarno and his research: “There is a problem with describing this ethereal music. He writes about its ‘intricacy, subtlety and profound emotional content. Louis Sarno Dies at 62; Moved to Africa to Preserve Ancestral Music 2017-04-10T04:00:00Z “It’s been more than two years since I became an orphan and entered the war from the Hamburg Central Station,” she writes of a terrible day in 1944. Review | The hottest new book from Iceland is ‘Woman at 1,000 Degrees’ 2018-01-08T05:00:00Z He writes of the fear of being isolated, the fear that his pragmatic, nonideological approach might be “insufficient” for effective governance, and his fear of Prime Minister’s Questions, a ritual grilling by members of Parliament. Books of The Times: At the Center of the Storm, but Still a Mystery 2010-09-01T20:10:00Z “I made my body a weapon,” she writes of her time as a star softball player in high school. Review | Melissa Faliveno’s ‘Tomboyland’ essays offer funny, moving explorations of self and society 2020-08-10T04:00:00Z "But the cathartic thing?" he writes of his music. Bob Mould: A life on the musical edge 2011-06-03T15:47:16Z “Unfortunately, ‘Camelot’ is weighed down by the burden of its book,” the New York Times critic Howard Taubman wrote of the opening. ‘Camelot,’ Beloved but Befuddling, Gets the Aaron Sorkin Treatment 2023-03-22T04:00:00Z “Pretty soon, I avoided them and I think many others did too,” she wrote of her era’s after-bashes. When the ‘Saturday Night Live’ Show Ends, Lorne Michaels and the S.N.L. Cast Start the After-Party 2014-01-31T21:06:14Z They wrote of how Dobkin’s music provided them comfort, guidance and community. ‘Head lesbian,’ singer and feminist, Alix Dobkin, dies at 80 2021-05-21T04:00:00Z She writes of being haunted by isolation, of “feeling unaccountably upset, with a vague, disquieting sense of vertigo.” Review | Helen Macdonald’s ‘Vesper Flights’ — like ‘H Is for Hawk’ — is a beautiful, poignant celebration of the natural world 2020-08-24T04:00:00Z But that also meant you were juggling a lot during the writing of it. Neil Patrick Harris chats about his choose-your-own-adventure memoir 2014-10-15T04:00:00Z Powell described something similar when he wrote of crowds in the square moving "rhythmically backwards and forwards like the huge chorus of an opera". Trip Tips: Reading between the lines in Venice 2014-12-05T05:00:00Z He wrote of the power of sport to cut across social and national lines with spectacles that bring communities together. Why is this architecture firm dealing with the NFL and Dan Snyder? 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z “It won mixed reviews today from reporters and critics who toured the vice-presidential mansion,” The Times wrote of the sculpture in 1977. Martin Friedman, Whose Vision Shaped Walker Art Center, Dies at 90 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z Aldous Huxley wrote of feeling, on psychedelics, “the direct, total awareness, from the inside, so to say, of Love as the primary and fundamental cosmic fact.” A Strait-Laced Writer Explores Psychedelics, and Leaves the Door of Perception Ajar 2018-05-14T04:00:00Z “All Southern families who trace their bloodlines back before the Civil War are affected by that peculiar institution,” Robinson writes of her paternal lineage. Review | A book about the Civil War that speaks to our times, too 2019-05-15T04:00:00Z In leaked emails, Pascal wrote of losing out on "a seminal movie like 'Citizen Kane' for our time." 'Steve Jobs' trailer: Michael Fassbender takes on a tech iCon 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z “Lucy paid a heavy price for fame,” Mr. Negron later wrote of the experience. Taylor Negron, of ‘Fast Times at Ridgemont High,’ Dies at 57 2015-01-11T05:00:00Z In it, Slaughter wrote of her weekly commutes from Princeton to Washington. She famously said that women can’t have it all. Now she realizes that no one can. 2016-08-26T04:00:00Z “Our spat was not unlike a couple’s argument,” he writes of a dispute with Gilligan. ‘Breaking Bad’ star Bryan Cranston was ‘always hustling’ as a young actor 2016-09-28T04:00:00Z She quotes Harold Pinter, who wrote of his wife: “I shall miss you so much when I’m dead.” ‘Dying: A Memoir’ Is a Bracing Illumination of Terminal Illness 2017-07-26T04:00:00Z “It decorates the day,” Ms. Sanchez wrote of any fragrance that justifies itself and the term. A Scented Diary of a Lockdown 2020-06-03T04:00:00Z The National Park Service wrote of its concern about potential sound at Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park, the site of key battles in the American Civil War. Airport plan prompts pollution, noise concerns 2014-07-25T04:00:00Z The writing of “The Knick” isn’t as distinguished, and the plotting can be contrived. ‘The Knick’ Season 2 Premiere Recap: Tied Up in Knots 2015-10-17T04:00:00Z “She grew up on the East Coast but she is an artist of the West Coast,” James Franco wrote of Del Rey in the new issue of V Magazine. Lana Del Rey Is Exhausted 2015-09-29T04:00:00Z "And there we were as private as foxes, strolling under the low branches," he writes of Lilly's recollection of her first passionate encounter with her second husband. On Canaan's Side by Sebastian Barry ? review 2011-08-11T11:15:01Z On the whole, our three rules stuck, and the blogs became a place where the writing of poems was just something that everyone did quite naturally: an ordinary, everyday activity. Come rhyme with me: the best of the books blog poets 2010-10-06T20:31:00Z She writes of her own mind and its terrors. A Lucid, Literary Illustration of the Complex, Beautiful Work of Memory 2021-06-01T04:00:00Z “I wanted to create worlds that were rosier than mine,” he wrote of his creative impetus. Frank Ocean, the Cure, and Boys Who Do Cry 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z “Usually, when asked, I said I was an ‘American cocktail,’ ” she writes of her days in France, adding, “The ‘cocktails’ were often welcome in many places where white Americans were not.” A Breezy Chameleon, Blurring Social Borders 2014-02-16T22:07:35Z “I kept hoping a memory stick might be slipped through the door, but that’s what ethical thieves did, in places like Sweden,” she writes of the purloined book. An Intimate Look at the Dangerous, Boom-and-Bust Lives of Oil Workers 2021-12-14T05:00:00Z “Like its narrator, this is a remorseless little machine,” Dwight Garner writes of the book. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z It's a valuable contrast to the writing of many young authors today who see, with good reason, the religions that claim to represent them as corrupted to the purposes of oppression. Alif the Unseen: speculative fiction meets the Arab spring 2012-12-13T09:58:14Z After all, Shakespeare wrote of fatal divisions and titanic feeling. A Shakespeare tale with honesty and heart 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z She writes of a Lagos filled with climbers, debating the merits of American affectations versus English ones for their children, gravitating to those who hold enough power to dispense favors. Books of The Times: ‘Americanha,’ by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 2013-05-19T20:26:59Z In 1944, at 17, he enlisted in the Navy, where he soon discovered the writing of W. E. B. Du Bois, who helped found the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. | 'Sing Your Song': ?Sing Your Song,? Documentary About Harry Belafonte - Review 2012-01-12T23:04:54Z Walt Whitman wrote of grass in 1855: “I guess it must be the flag of my disposition, out of hopeful greenstuff woven.” There’s a water crisis. Why do we still have lawns? 2022-08-24T04:00:00Z He wrote of “spreading prosperity and freedom,” “fighting climate change” and “preventing pandemics.” The Mark Zuckerberg Aesthetic 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z In an article published in the Israeli news organization NRG, Klein wrote of his experience: Journalist films 10 hours of anti-semitic street harassment in Paris 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z I wanted you ask you about the the extraordinary story behind the writing of this book, and what authors influenced the writing of this novel? Authors Steve Cavanagh and Adrian McKinty: How growing up in Northern Ireland's Troubles shaped them 2019-08-13T04:00:00Z When I want to know what’s happening in the world of international terrorism, the frighteningly prescient writing of Daniel Silva is often a better source than the news and nonfiction. Bill Bratton Doesn’t Root for the Bad Guys 2021-06-10T04:00:00Z He also writes of his own addiction issues, and the overlap between father’s life and son’s. 17 Refreshing Books to Read This Summer 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z “We weren’t addressing the larger problem,” he writes of his dissatisfaction with showcasing pristine local ingredients. In ‘The Third Plate,’ Dan Barber Meets Food Pioneers 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z Kirichenko also said the decree looked like an example of difficulties in the writing of Russian law rather than an attempt to target minorities. Russia gives green light for transgender drivers to stay on the road 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z “Woke up and went crazy with the weights today,” he writes of one workout. The Screwball Poetry of Lil Wayne’s Prison Diary 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z “I saw my expression as a stranger might perceive it,” Obama writes of watching one of her speeches on mute. Analysis | Women, once relegated to supporting roles, are becoming the protagonists of their own stories 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z In 1985, Times art critic William Wilson wrote of the area: "Nothing in recent years has so beguiled the indigenous cultural imagination as the vision of downtown Los Angeles transformed into a glittering art Mecca." Downtown L.A.'s hot art scene? It was just as happening in the '70s 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z The writing of the final season was definitely ice, much like the White Walkers who loomed over Westeros for so long only to be rendered pointless in the end. You can’t rush perfection. ‘Game of Thrones’ tried and came out like an undercooked Hot Pocket. 2019-05-21T04:00:00Z “I felt proud of my family’s slaveholding and Confederate past,” Tomlinson writes of his youthful self, “not because I believed in slavery or racism, but because white Texans honored and celebrated that heritage.” “Tomlinson Hill”: A white man from Texas unearths his family’s shockingly racist past 2014-07-20T04:00:00Z “As an actor, Wallach is the quintessential chameleon, effortlessly inhabiting a wide range of characters, while putting his inimitable stamp on every role,” the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences wrote of him. Versatile Actor Eli Wallach Dies at 98 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z In his novel “The Baron in the Trees,” Italo Calvino writes of a young Ligurian aristocrat who, fed up with the world around him, climbs a tree and decides never to come down. T Magazine: Portrait of a Lady 2014-02-15T00:16:46Z Fitzgerald wrote of himself inThe Crack-Up, “I have now at last become a writer only.” F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Hollywood “Crack-Up” 2013-06-09T15:00:00Z In later life he turned to the writing of books, both fiction and memoirs. Bryan Forbes: British writer, actor and film director 2013-05-09T07:27:27Z General readers will be fascinated to uncover the many layers behind the writing of Shelley’s novel. Mary Shelley’s ‘Frankenstein’ comes fully alive in this new edition 2017-10-23T04:00:00Z He wrote of his own sexual inexperience and about Murdoch’s lusty approach to life, including her affairs with both men and women, even after they were married. John Bayley, British literary scholar who wrote a memoir about his wife, author Iris Murdoch, dies at 89 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z “Once she got over her anxiety over even being there, the overwhelming impression was of its mean-spirited nature,” Davis writes of the first and last time Sara attended an Algonquin luncheon. Review | A dual portrait of Herman and Joe Mankiewicz offers an intimate look at the Hollywood brothers 2021-09-13T04:00:00Z Furthermore, the writing of symphonies in the conventional sense has, in the past century, fallen out of fashion in many musical circles. Listen to the Future 2015-04-11T04:00:00Z It fascinated me because I'm certain that the folks behind the writing of that New York Times article did not think they were being sexist. From mansplainers to sexual assaulters, Kate Manne explains how society empowers men to harm women 2020-08-10T04:00:00Z He writes of his time in the kitchen: From "The Bear" to "The Menu," this was the year pop culture faced the horrors of fine dining 2022-12-30T05:00:00Z In shaping it, I mixed the riotous writing of Ring Lardner and P. G. Wodehouse with stories about my family, my father’s life in the theater and my beginnings as an actor. John Lithgow, on Barnstorming His Way to Broadway 2018-01-09T05:00:00Z In the New York magazine essay, Mr. Bowie wrote of that period, “I rarely got up before noon and hit the sack again around four or five in the morning.” David Bowie: Invisible New Yorker 2016-01-16T05:00:00Z In the ultimate chapter of “Primates,” she writes of visiting a Parisian physician for persistent numbness in her arm, “which left me unable to type.” The harried tale of ‘Primates of Park Avenue’ 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z Initially, though, he built a reputation in the jazz world, interviewing artists like Charlie Parker, Miles Davis and Dizzy Gillespie and turning the writing of liner notes for albums into something approaching an art form. Nat Hentoff Is the Subject of David Lewis’s New Documentary 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z It was the best show in town, the society chronicler Dominick Dunne once wrote of Mortimer’s, a brick-walled restaurant at the corner of 75th Street and Lexington Avenue — provided you could get a table. He Banned the Yahoos and Kept the Social X-Rays Fed 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z And in a 1973 essay, The Atlantic’s Stanley Kauffmann wrote of “The Godfather” and “Gone With the Wind” that “both are about predators … both live within codes of honor, and both codes are romances.” Donald Trump in “La La Land”: Retro romance is seductive — and encourages a yearning for a less beautiful past 2016-12-26T05:00:00Z In the former, he writes of his admiration for Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, and Elon Musk, but primarily of their charitable and environmental work. Do Good Climbers Make Good Capitalists? 2019-07-22T04:00:00Z “Therefore familiar recordings — in new packaging,” he wrote of the Decca album. Jonas Kaufmann Takes Issue With Decca Over Puccini Album 2015-07-28T04:00:00Z I was finding myself to be more and more of a TV consumer as the quality and writing of the shows seemed to get better and better. Kevin Bacon finds his TV niche in "The Following" 2013-01-22T03:32:41Z But much of the writing of the book took place while she was still living in Boston. The Gift of Donor 8282 2010-05-21T22:52:00Z It sounds Pollyanna, but if you were able to document and be a fly on the wall for the writing of the Declaration of Independence, our relationship to race and equality would be really different. Netflix's "Return to Space" filmmakers on why people follow Elon Musk: "He always sees the problem" 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z “Without any doubt I was insufferable,” he writes of a period in early adolescence when a professional acting gig had him putting on airs at the local luncheonette. ‘Inside My Head I’m a Girl’: Three Ways of Growing Up Gay 2016-08-16T04:00:00Z “It feels too private to speak of our two bodies together, and too tender and spiritual to actually refer to it as sex,” she wrote of their encounters. The famous and famously vain men of Carly Simon's 'Boys in the Trees' 2015-11-24T05:00:00Z A student from New York wrote of her teacher breaking down in tears at the news. Letters of grief to Jacqueline Kennedy brought to life in film 2013-09-22T18:10:31Z Kalogridis, who wrote "Shutter Island" for Martin Scorsese, was involved in the writing of "Avatar," for which she received an executive producer credit. Cameron, "Avatar" scribe in "Fantastic" reunion 2010-10-22T21:39:00Z As Mr. Bart wrote of the supposed meddling in the foreword to Mr. Evans’s 1994 memoir, “I watched as a superbly shot but ineptly put together film was transformed into a masterpiece.” Robert Evans, a Maverick Producer of Hollywood Classics, Dies at 89 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z “When he is out of tune with the rest of the musical world,” Giddins wrote of Mr. Coleman, “he is always in tune with himself.” Ornette Coleman, innovative force in jazz and modern music, dies at 85 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z On “The Tree of Forgiveness,” Mr. Prine writes of an America he sees in his rearview mirror, reviving seemingly extinct words and phrases to depict it. ‘The Tree of Forgiveness’ Review: John Prine on Life’s Agonies and Absurdities 2018-04-02T04:00:00Z “You’d be surprised at the . . . things we discovered for the first time,” she wrote of love’s avalanche. Beauty amid the horror of war 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z “What an Angel God sent to bless this mom,” one commenter wrote of the performance. Southwest flight attendant serenades mother of fallen Arizona DPS trooper in viral video 2019-03-30T04:00:00Z Hip hop artist and actor Common has even credited Williamson’s first bestseller “A Return to Love” as an influence in the writing of his memoir. America's curious political awakening to Marianne Williamson 2019-07-07T04:00:00Z He wrote of the Lionsgate team in an e-mail: “I’m watching the looks on their faces as the numbers come in and they realize what they’ve accomplished — the greatest joy in the business!!!” ?Hunger Games? Breaks Box-Office Records 2012-03-25T17:22:54Z Canetti writes of how the conductor’s “attention is everywhere at once. . . . inside the mind of every player.” Teodor Currentzis Brings His Intense Verdi to New York 2019-11-18T05:00:00Z “I was an excellent general,” she wrote of the bitter aftermath and trying to bounce back. ‘Smash’ writer Rebeck brings a new ‘Way of the World’ to D.C. 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z In three email exchanges with the newspaper, he wrote of frustration over his lengthy incarceration while awaiting trial and how it led to his decision to represent himself. Man called 'Bishop' mail bomber to defend self 2012-04-23T01:22:00Z She wrote of how her young daughter, told that she needed to change, resisted, rebelled, sometimes threw a tantrum. Dara-Lynn Weiss to Write Book on Policing Young Daughter?s Diet 2012-03-30T22:56:57Z She will write of a "Dickensian childhood in rural Indiana," and her struggles with everything from postpartum depression to religious faith. Florence Henderson signs deal to write memoir 2011-01-19T17:35:08Z As Eliot writes of the poet in general, “emotions which he has never experienced will serve his turn as well as those familiar to him.” A Hundred Years of T. S. Eliot’s “Tradition and the Individual Talent” 2019-10-27T04:00:00Z Later, in "The Shadow Life of Reading," he writes of "a kind of sedimentary layer of insights and impressions" each reader accrues over time, adding context and detail to each subsequent reading experience. Have we forgotten how to read critically? 2022-01-15T05:00:00Z In the end, he was writing of the "absolute singularity" of every human being, and was always a dedicated non-joiner. Derrida: A Biography by Benoît Peeters - review 2012-11-14T08:00:01Z She wrote of the Mekong River: “It carries everything along, straw huts, forests, burned-out fires, dead birds, dead dogs, drowned tigers and buffaloes, drowned men.” Marguerite Duras’s ‘The Lover,’ and Notebooks That Enrich It 2017-11-21T05:00:00Z But he grew up loving horror movies and the writing of H.P. Meet the ghost hunter and horror novelist who writes Sen. Rob Portman’s speeches 2014-12-08T05:00:00Z “But we were neither selfish enough nor selfless enough to become heroines. And even though she and I are no longer speaking, it makes me happy to think and write of that we.” In This Novel of Female Friendship, Birds of a Feather Drift Apart 2022-06-26T04:00:00Z “In that moment, I loathed America,” Ms. Fox wrote of her experience for The Guardian. Fly the Unfriendly Skies to the U.S.? Fewer Are Willing, Reports Find 2017-03-10T05:00:00Z A letter from 1959 supports her story: Armstrong writes of how much he misses Ms. Preston and sends the route for his tour, urging her to join him. Sharon Preston-Folta Says She’s Louis Armstrong’s Daughter 2012-12-12T22:59:25Z Ms. Smith writes of feeling “a longing for the way things were.” Review: ‘M Train,’ Patti Smith on All the Roads She Has Taken 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z That was a lot of the writing of the character, was the fusion of both of these feelings, our feelings. "Every Day in Kaimuki" filmmakers on questioning contentment: "Are you happy or is this just easy?" 2022-01-23T05:00:00Z There’s an extended and winning juxtaposition, in “The Mars Room,” of the writing of two men who sought escape from society’s constraints: Henry David Thoreau and Theodore J. Kaczynski, the Unabomber. Rachel Kushner’s ‘The Mars Room’ Offers Big Ideas in Close Quarters 2018-04-23T04:00:00Z And that, of course, is huge: a tough, passionate classic, as utopian in its anger, its injured tenderness, as the writing of Frantz Fanon. What Ernest Cole’s Hidden Camera Revealed 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z Early Thursday morning, two police officers were shot during a protest in Ferguson, Mo. As of the writing of this article, the officers were in serious condition at a nearby hospital. Police and witnesses have conflicting accounts of Ferguson shooting 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z Bell writes of his pictures: “I want them to be the bones of the room.” In the galleries: Getting ‘Personal’ at King Street 2015-11-13T05:00:00Z In April, Alan Sepinwall wrote of the embarrassment-of-riches problem of having more good TV to watch than it is physically possible to consume in a week, making triage more essential and ruthless. Is There Too Much Great TV or Too Little? 2013-11-13T15:28:27Z “Niceness was not her project,” she writes of the diaries. Prime Cuts From Jenny Diski’s Catalog of Intimate, Witty Essays 2021-04-12T04:00:00Z So, instead of smelling food,” the poster wrote of the unnamed establishment, “we smelled artificial strawberry bubble gum.” Tom Sietsema dishes on discounts, displacement and disquiet 2015-07-28T04:00:00Z There’s also this tradition in war writing of the veteran going to war and then coming back and testifying to the truth of war, right? Phil Klay on His Iraq War Book 'Redeployment' 2015-03-04T05:00:00Z “Allen also writes of his relationships with family, friends and the loves of his life.” Woody Allen autobiography to be published next month 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z Matthew Andrews, a Portland composer and musician, wrote of “Turangalîla”: “The big trouble with this concert is that now I want every orchestra concert to be like this.” Stravinsky’s ‘Persephone’ at Seattle Symphony goes big with puppets, dancers, singers and full orchestra 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z “There was no frame he couldn’t or wouldn’t fill,” Leavy writes of Ruth. Babe Ruth, the First Modern Celebrity 2018-10-23T04:00:00Z After hearing Liszt perform the sonata in 1836, Berlioz wrote of Liszt’s impressive fidelity to the text in a review quoted in the first volume of Mr. Walker’s biography. Critic?s Notebook: A Renaissance Man Before the Renaissance 2011-08-23T12:00:00Z “The movie’s familiar suggestion of music as a light in the darkness works primarily because its star shines so brightly,” Kyle Turner wrote of Cravalho in his New York Times review. What’s on TV Saturday: ‘Get Duked!’ and NASCAR 2020-08-29T04:00:00Z My intent was to conduct research on her writing of the "Lives of the Mayfair Witches," series, which I managed to do. Reading Rice's journals, she likely would have hated "Mayfair Witches" 2023-01-09T05:00:00Z One poem was by Private Amber, who wrote of how a loved one sent him clothing to keep him warm while on the frontline before he was shot in the left shoulder at Ypres. Pocket book of a nurse reveals first world war messages 2010-08-04T21:44:00Z “A thin breeze swept through the city, carrying with it the aroma of evergreen and cinnamon and wood smoke,” he writes of Christmas Eve, 1885. A True-Crime Veteran on Our Fascination with Serial Killers 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z In her statement for that exhibition Ms. Bontecou wrote of “the fear, hope, ugliness, beauty and mystery that exists in us all and which hangs over all the young people today.” Art Review: Lee Bontecou , From MoMA?s Permanent Collection 2010-08-12T21:12:00Z In her third memoir, Emily Rapp Black writes of tentatively, painfully regaining her footing after losing her son to Tay-Sachs disease. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-02-11T05:00:00Z Joel, for example, breaks down the writing of some of his songs chord by chord in a way that is fascinating and instructive, talking not only about autobiography but musicality and music history. We watched CNN+. Here's what we found 2022-04-13T04:00:00Z In her prologue Warner wrote of the realities of growing up as a convent-educated Catholic in the 1950s. Kathryn Hughes: rereading Alone of All Her Sex by Marina Warner 2013-03-23T07:00:15Z “To say he lacks a verbal filter is an understatement,” Mr. Wilber writes of one detective. Review: Deep in a Homicide Unit, Details, but No Big Picture 2016-06-01T04:00:00Z The Leipzig book fair event also saw Müller speak of how literature helped persuade her to leave the village where she was born, praising the writing of Austrian author Thomas Bernhard. Herta M?ller dodged Romanian secret police by proofreading in forest 2010-03-22T15:55:00Z Darwin wrote of the survival of the fittest; in “The Caravan Project” Eiko and Koma embody the least fit, the species least likely to survive. Dance Review: ‘The Caravan Project’ at MoMA 2013-01-17T22:46:25Z “There is simplicity and decency in this woman, who has always accepted the unadorned and unexciting realities of her ordinary life,” New York Times theater critic Howard Taubman wrote of Ms. Sherwood’s character. Madeleine Sherwood, actress in ‘The Crucible,’ ‘Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,’ dies at 93 2016-04-26T04:00:00Z “His story is an old-fashioned one. It’s chiefly about the American Dream, which is very much alive and very much under threat,” Eggers writes of Alkhanshali. ‘The Monk of Mokha’ is Dave Eggers’s Latest PG-13 Story About the American Dream 2018-01-23T05:00:00Z “His alleged suicide would at least lift him out of his colorless slot in history,” she writes of the military engineer Karl Pilhal in a letter to the exasperated Walter. The Buildings That Drove Their Creators to Despair 2022-09-18T04:00:00Z Mr. Gardner wrote of this “universe of true crime” that “sad and horrible tales are the stock in trade.” Considering Next Steps for ?Wanted? 2011-05-17T23:52:46Z Rousseau also wrote of the emergence of machines and the rise of technology. Rousseau shows us that there is a way to break the chains – from within 2012-07-15T08:00:01Z He writes of the filmmaker Ron Rice’s departure from New York for Mexico because of trouble with censors and money, and with anguish and fury at Rice’s death there, in 1964. Jonas Mekas, Champion of the “Poetic” Cinema 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z “Bailey is a devastating talent and a phenomenon,” Mary Murphy wrote of that show in the Los Angeles Times. Jim Bailey, cabaret entertainer who impersonated Garland, Streisand, dies 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z Williams, a veteran of the Iraq war, writes of the romance and difficulties of her marriage to another veteran, Brian McGough, who suffers from a brain injury and PTSD. 27 essential Memorial Day books 2015-05-23T04:00:00Z As the Times wrote of his first short-story collection: “With Palo Alto, Franco’s literary execution hasn’t quite matched his other performances.” It’s time to bring James Franco's reign of half-assed artistry to an end 2014-09-27T04:00:00Z In her essay for the show’s catalog, Jody Graf, assistant curator and organizer of the show, writes of Susiraja, “Her photographs may be funny, but they are never a joke.” Iiu Susiraja: She Has Issues? No, You Have Issues 2023-05-31T04:00:00Z "He did his best, but he wouldn't do the same," Mr. Ocean writes of the night when he first confessed his full feelings. ArtsBeat: Frank Ocean, the R&B Musician, Uses Tumblr to Describe His Love for a Man 2012-07-04T17:26:49Z She also writes of a political-hack supervisor who, during the war, told her, “By the way, I am changing the name of German measles. Hereafter it will be known as ‘Liberty measles.’ ” The Real “Knick” 2014-08-18T04:00:00Z Generally, the authors, who collaborated in the writing of each story, meet the challenge of plausibly pairing their guys. Crime fiction: Richard Jury’s return; an unsuspected spy 2014-07-13T04:00:00Z Why not write of heroism, purity, and happiness in a just and noble setting? No Longer Writing, Philip Roth Still Has Plenty to Say 2018-01-16T05:00:00Z Was there a unifying theme or impulse that drove the writing of “We All Want The Same Thing?” Craig Finn keeps the faith: “We live in divided times, but I do believe that people are inherently good” 2017-02-27T05:00:00Z I found my voice and was vocal in the writing of this book. Carine McCandless on 'The Wild Truth' and her brother Chris' life 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z Susan Sontag once wrote of Weil: “No one who loves life would wish to imitate her dedication to martyrdom nor would wish it for his children nor for anyone else whom he loves.” Women Rule at Ojai Festival, Unannounced 2016-06-10T04:00:00Z “This show is nothing but momentum,” James Poniewozik wrote of the previous season in his New York Times review. What’s on TV Friday: ‘Mrs. Maisel’ and ‘Wuthering Heights’ 2019-12-06T05:00:00Z “Think of swimming in a washing machine on a heavily soiled cycle,” he wrote of ocean conditions in one post. Unlucky or deluded? One man’s attempt to swim the Atlantic 2017-11-19T05:00:00Z "It hurted me inside," one of his victims wrote of the ordeal. Prosecutors seek 50 years for pimp 2012-04-05T03:21:00Z But as Times art critic Christopher Knight wrote of what he called the “blue-chip blowout” of the museum’s opening, “Going forward, SFMOMA’s challenge is to broaden the purview.” South of Market: How the new SFMOMA reflects the sea change that has engulfed one San Francisco neighborhood 2016-06-07T04:00:00Z "Somewhere," Brunton writes of the spammers' eureka moment, "an algorithmic bot with a pile of text files and a mailing list made a Joycean gesture announcing spam's modernism." Spam: A Shadow History of the Internet by Finn Brunton – review 2013-05-31T06:29:01Z Martin wrote of his affection and concern for wolves on his donation site. For $20,000, You Can Get Killed Off in Game of Thrones 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z “What made Angus smile when he arrived for work each morning was how the guns held imaginable power,” Ide writes of his villainous arms dealer. Four High-Octane New Thrillers 2020-01-24T05:00:00Z “Why carry something in your hand when you could carry it in your head, instead,” Roth writes of the Elicit, the precursor to the Insight. What Happens to People Who Support a Corrupt Government? 2022-10-16T04:00:00Z “As Mr. DeFrancesco played Duke Ellington’s ‘Sophisticated Lady,’ the elder musicians beamed and whispered encouragement,” Jonathan Probber wrote of that show in The New York Times. Joey DeFrancesco, Reigning King of the Jazz Organ, Dies at 51 2022-08-26T04:00:00Z “The New World is also the Old World,” she writes of the sacred site that predates European settlers by thousands of years. Every December, Frommer’s publishes its best places list. This year will be different. 2020-12-18T05:00:00Z His gentle diaries went hand-in-hand with the writing of standard works – including Snowdonia and The Natural History of Wales in Collins' New Naturalist series – and practical conservation campaigning. Bill Condry's legacy lives on at Festival of Nature Writing 2010-10-22T15:07:00Z Matters were hardly better in England: James Campbell, one of the editors of the Times Literary Supplement, wrote of him as follows: ‘Suspended Sentences’: An eloquent taste of the 2014 Nobel Prize winner in literature Harmon was replaced as show runner for the series' fourth season, but after the show's devoted fan base loudly complained, he returned to lead the writing of the fifth season. 'Community' sitcom renewed for another season by Yahoo 2014-06-30T04:00:00Z “We never talked about men or clothes or other such inconsequential things when we got together,” Nina Simone wrote of Hansberry in her memoir. The Brief, Brilliant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry 2021-04-14T04:00:00Z The poet Gary Snyder has written of “the calligraphy of lights on the night freeways of Los Angeles.” Los Angeles, as a Pedestrian 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z “We were teenagers,” Ms. Ringer, now 40, writes of her cohort of 16-year-olds just admitted to City Ballet. Books of The Times: Jenifer Ringer and Misty Copeland Have New Memoirs 2014-03-16T21:00:25Z In 1829, Stendhal wrote of strolling “with delight among the grand avenues of green trees” and Goethe so loved a statue of the goddess Juno that he had it copied for his house in Germany. U.S.-Born Princess Opens Historic Villa to the Public 2010-07-15T17:01:00Z “It was he more than any one else who encouraged my interest upon the field of musical composition in the larger forms,” she wrote of her husband. Amy Beach, a Pioneering American Composer, Turns 150 2017-09-01T04:00:00Z “They have a fine feeling of mood and setting,” The Wilmington News-Journal of Ohio wrote of the poems in that volume, “and express a woman’s view of things with a simplicity.” Linda Pastan, Poet Who Plumbed the Ordinary, Dies at 90 2023-02-03T05:00:00Z The Times critic Jesse Green wrote of his performance, “With his confident voice, unlined face and television polish, he never seems hopeless or, viewed from our time, too old for a new start.” Jim Parsons Takes the Romantic Lead 2022-12-20T05:00:00Z “I wanted to make a summation of my nervous system,” Snow once wrote of the film — a work in which everything was “cosmically equivalent.” In Moving Images, Michael Snow Teases the Eye and the Mind 2023-07-03T04:00:00Z In that book’s introduction, he wrote of his limitations, which, as he well knew, weren’t really anything of the sort. When You Go Away: Remembering W. S. Merwin 2019-03-20T04:00:00Z Reviewing the film in The New Yorker, Pauline Kael wrote of him: Topol, Star of ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ on the Screen and the Stage, Dies at 87 2023-03-09T05:00:00Z “Long shadows of deep lilac undulate over the hummocky ground,” he writes of a dawn advance into combat. ‘No Man’s Land,’ Unfamiliar Writing About World War I 2014-08-31T04:00:00Z The writing of code and the writing of fiction exist for him in tense equipoise; “the stark determinisms of code,” he writes, “were a welcome relief from the ambiguities of literary narrative.” How to Understand Your Computer 2014-09-12T04:00:00Z "I ignored her and tried to think of myself," Elena writes of her first child as she tries to work. Women's paths diverge in Elena Ferrante's epic 'Those Who Leave' 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z Clark writes of the passage: “Plath’s colon suggests that she ‘got hit’ by the ricocheting glass, not by Hughes” — a conclusion contrary to the one many other readers have reached. Review | Heather Clark’s ‘Red Comet’ is an exhaustively researched, often brilliant biography of Sylvia Plath 2020-10-28T04:00:00Z Hoffman writes of gangs allegiant to Ze'ev Jabotinsky — the ideological father of the Revisionist politics that live on in Benjamin Netanyahu — attacking Mendelsohn's construction sites because the laborers he hired hailed from the socialist left. Three architects who built Jerusalem: How they shaped and fled (and were forgotten by) the conflicted city 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z He also writes of 'sparkling' eyes, 'shining' eyes, 'laughing' eyes, 'twinkling' eyes . . . The invention of Obama 2010-04-23T23:06:00Z I don’t think I was fully committed to it until probably as far as the writing of Episode 9. ArtsBeat Blog: Terence Winter Looks Back on the Mother of All 'Boardwalk Empire' Seasons 2011-12-12T06:28:56Z “Born in Southeast London to a Jamaican father and English mother, Wales Bonner uses her mixed-race heritage as a key reference in her collections,” Business of Fashion writes of the up-and-comer. Meghan Markle wears dress by rising British designer to introduce royal baby 2019-05-08T04:00:00Z It is, as Shelley writes of the poet, “the influence which is moved not, but moves.” A Hundred Years of T. S. Eliot’s “Tradition and the Individual Talent” 2019-10-27T04:00:00Z Scott wrote of the film for The New York Times. What’s on TV Sunday: ‘Ganja & Hess’ and ‘Outcry’ 2020-07-05T04:00:00Z “The author applies honesty, wisdom and even wit to a painful event,” our reviewer wrote of this incredibly beautiful memoir of having a stillborn baby. This Is Parenthood — and Not Just the Charming, Photogenic Parts 2021-01-05T05:00:00Z “It was still the most beautiful and lovable of all faces in the world,” she wrote of her father in his final years. Books of The Times: Robert Gottlieb’s Book on Dickens and His Children 2012-12-06T19:06:19Z The poets, all white, wrote of pumphandles and snow geese, never of low wages or police shootings, never of the global events of the era — of apartheid in South Africa, famine in Ethiopia. A Monumental and Rapturous New Anthology of Black American Poetry 2020-11-10T05:00:00Z Their last album was a poetry-and-music set, dominated by the writing of the late Mahmoud Darwish and aimed largely at the Arab world, but this recording displays their instrumental work at its best. Le Trio Joubran: AsF?r ? review 2011-03-24T23:20:01Z “He thought he might write about those bells someday but was not at all sure what he would write,” McDonell writes of McDonell. For a Literary Man’s Man, Mother Knew Best 2023-04-09T04:00:00Z It's what Auden was getting at when he wrote of Yeats: "Mad Ireland hurt you into poetry." EM Forster's work tailed off once he finally had sex. Better that than a life of despair 2010-06-13T21:30:00Z On Sunday, the New York Times wrote of how Dunham’s 11 city-tour for her first book, “Not That Kind of Girl,” is rapidly becoming the season’s “Hot Ticket.” Lena Dunham remembers to pay people 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z “Ambition is a funny thing,” she writes of that time in her life. Review: ‘Not That Kind of Girl,’ by Lena Dunham He also held overseas teaching jobs, including a tour in Tehran that led to the writing of his only novel, “Black Light,” a tale of an Iranian carpet-mender whose life is changed by a murder. Galway Kinnell, Poet Who Went His Own Way, Dies at 87 2014-10-29T04:00:00Z What Murray Kempton wrote of JFK in the 1960 primary — that “He is fresh and everyone else is tired” — applies to Stephen, an idealist with a terrier’s determination. The Ides of March: Ladies and Gentlemen, President George Clooney 2011-10-17T18:00:00Z In 1990, he wrote of making “big sensuous paintings. It’s the first impact that people get. They walk in and say, ‘Oh wow!’ Robert Colescott Throws Down the Gauntlet 2022-07-07T04:00:00Z As the poet Michael McClure wrote of Hopper’s work, “the Hollywood here is not afraid of friendship, love, or sentiment.” Dennis Hopper’s Quiet Vision of Nineteen-Sixties Hollywood 2019-12-22T05:00:00Z In his program note, he wrote of his interest in creating an aural illusion of forces larger than those on stage. Review: Philharmonic Ties New Threads to a Recent Premiere 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z “Far from Respectable” is a worthy introduction to the writing of a major American critic and should instill a desire to experience Hickey’s delights firsthand. Review | How Dave Hickey became one of the most influential art critics in America 2021-06-07T04:00:00Z As the Victorian commentator Walter Bagehot wrote of royal mystique: “We must not let in the daylight upon magic.” ‘The Crown’ and the Appeal of a Royal TV Interview 2022-11-15T05:00:00Z In 1992 a marketing journal wrote of how in the past four years this promotion of “germ warfare” had led to “amazing” growth in sales of home hygiene products. Did slaves catch your seafood? 2012-05-21T14:26:00Z Mr. White, a former China correspondent for Time, approached the story from a traditional reportorial perspective, and wrote of the office of the presidency with something approaching reverence. ArtsBeat: Page-Turners for the Presidential Campaign 2012-01-11T15:43:32Z These episodes would seem to call for vocal writing of an intoned, naturalistic quality. Review: In ‘Dog Days,’ a Family Clawing for Survival 2016-01-10T05:00:00Z In Fathers and Sons, one of the great novels of the 19th century, Turgenev writes of a character's "quiet attentiveness to the broad wave of life constantly flowing in and around us". A brief survey of the short story part 50: Ivan Turgenev 2013-06-21T13:42:13Z Yeats wrote of another tragically inspiring human drama, that "a terrible beauty is born." Review: Over-the-top beauty begs for more bite 2012-12-06T20:59:13Z “Little or nothing to be done till dinner,” one equerry writes of Victoria’s household, “when we all dressed up in knee-breeches and stockings.” Review | Future kings don’t squeeze their own toothpaste: Tales of the pampered British royal family 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z Inside, Clifford Levy writes of his children’s experiences as students in the Russian public school system, when his family moved there from Park Slope for his job as a foreign correspondent for the paper. Motherlode Blog: Teaching Kids to Fail 2011-09-19T18:09:31Z It is not just White who was a keen falconer; Hermann Göring was too, and indeed, Ms Macdonald writes of coming across his own goshawk, stuffed and mounted in an archive. Birdsong 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z The only text scrolls by at the start, in silence; Mr. Anderszewski writes of his paternal grandmother, who helped raise him. A Pianist’s Warsaw: ‘Fascination and Pain’ 2017-02-10T05:00:00Z “In the midst of the suicide of the West, it was clear they had no chance,” he writes of the characters in the novel, in what could be a slogan for all his fiction. A French Novelist Imagined Sexual Dystopia. Now It’s Arrived. 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z Nor—at least as of his writing of his column Monday—had Glenn Greenwald. The Zero Dark Thirty Argument: Why Deceptive Art Can Be Great 2012-12-11T16:10:11Z Prum is also an expert on the evolution of feathers, and he writes of them with the insight and appreciation one hears in the funnest art critics — think Kenneth Clark crossed with Sister Wendy. Survival of the Prettiest 2017-09-18T04:00:00Z In “Horror Stories,” Phair writes of her frustration with that tweet — “milking my name for all it was worth.” Perspective | Liz Phair is back, and she’s setting the record — and the record business — straight 2021-05-26T04:00:00Z “It’s the best place I’ve ever been any time, anywhere,” Ernest Hemingway wrote of Key West. 36 Hours in Key West, Fla. 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z “Her make-believe life was so different than mine,” Sotomayor writes of the Nancy Drew mysteries. How Do You Talk to Children About Politics These Days? Try These Books. 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z Parker writes of the difficulties within Patrick’s family and the even larger problems that afflict Fallbrook, population about 30,000, which the author sees as a microcosm for all of America. Fiction: ‘Full Measure’ is a moving portrait of Marines who fought in Afghanistan “As her daughter and employee throughout, it is a big goal to come back strong,” Latham wrote of her mom in her GoFundMe plea. The second-best flower shop in Naperville, Ill., is struggling to survive. Along with the American Dream. 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z As Bedford was to write of her host, "Don Otavio has seen so many changes that he has failed to notice them." Mexican modernism and the politics of painting 2013-06-29T07:59:01Z Q: Some aspects remain classified, how did those kinds of restrictions impact your writing of the book? Former spy talks "Argo," and Iran rescue mission 2012-10-12T15:03:31Z He writes of gargoyles and “ancient lanes” that “intertwined to form a knot of incomprehensible passages, arches and curves where the sun barely penetrated more than a few minutes a day.” Review | In ‘The City of Mist,’ a final word from Carlos Ruiz Zafón 2021-11-30T05:00:00Z The Writers Guild recognizes achievements in the writing of U.S. television, radio, news and animation, rather than actors or directors. "Breaking Bad," dominates Writers Guild TV nominations 2012-12-06T21:38:28Z The movie, which began streaming on Netflix on Friday, dramatizes the writing of “Citizen Kane” through the eyes of Herman J. Mankiewicz, who received top billing on the shared screenplay credit with Welles. Who Wrote ‘Citizen Kane’? It’s No Mystery 2020-12-06T05:00:00Z To belabor the point, Mr. Mankell writes of Wallander’s feeling “as if he were turning into an hourglass with the sand silently running out.” Books of The Times: Detective Meets His End, Sort Of 2011-03-27T22:37:55Z She writes of her love of dance, of Mark Haim’s “Goldberg Variations,” shows bits of a film of small boys intently doing ballet exercises. Dance Review: Texts (and Gyrations) on the Art of Movement 2011-03-18T22:08:29Z Jack Dee wrote of his "great and lasting contribution" to British comedy. Eddie Braben: friends and fellow comic writers pay tribute 2013-05-21T18:34:56Z Hardly a soul writes of the listening and playing of music with such insight and tenderness. Haruki Murakami’s ‘Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage’ 2014-08-05T04:00:00Z Screen International wrote of its "outstanding quality," and the same publication was even more positive about "Submarino," a tough Danish drama which contains scenes of domestic abuse. 2010-02-15T09:13:00Z She noted that the handful of small spelling errors followed the phonetic sounds of words — “pitcher” instead of “picture” — which would be common in the writing of a young child. Did a 9-year-old called ‘Pickle’ really write that letter to Trump? Yep, he’s real. 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z In “Departures and Arrivals,” Mr. Harbutt wrote of his life’s work in more personal terms: Charles Harbutt, Photojournalist With an Eye for Art as Well as News, Dies at 79 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z Collection/Rex Features What made Gatsby emphatically "new" was not its focus upon modern life, however: Fitzgerald had written of nothing else since the start of his career. What makes The Great Gatsby great? 2013-05-03T18:00:00Z “My eyes lit up,” he wrote of that first sighting. “The Wizard of Oz,” the Last Munchkin, and the Little People Left Behind 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z The structure of the blues was on Savage’s mind throughout the writing of “Sunbathing Animal.” Parquet Courts: ‘Sunbathing Animal’ has a punk sound with surprising influences But as Mr. Porter pointed out, the tune also sounds a lot like the writing of Mr. Tyner. Lost John Coltrane Recording From 1963 Will Be Released at Last 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z “It looks as though the painting is a sardonic comment on our society,” Mr. Hamilton wrote of “She” in Architectural Design. Richard Hamilton, British Painter and a Creator of Pop Art, Dies at 89 2011-09-14T04:55:53Z In the series finale of “Game of Thrones,” the killing was minimal, the writing of books maximal, and the primacy of “story” questionable. “Game of Thrones” Season 8 Finale Recap: The Iron Throne 2019-05-20T04:00:00Z On Monday, Fawaz wrote of the fateful day in a Twitter post. George Michael’s Boyfriend Opens Up About the Singer’s Death 2016-12-27T05:00:00Z They lead me back to the show for a re-watch to catch the moments I missed that you write of. ‘Billions’ Season 2, Episode 10: Nonconformity 2017-04-23T04:00:00Z I realise now, one year after I finalised the edit, how much space and time the writing of that book occupied. Paperback Q&A: JJ Connolly on Viva La Madness 2012-07-17T14:29:30Z He writes of how his father’s stubborn nature, profligacy and addiction destroyed the family’s stability. 17 Refreshing Books to Read This Summer 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z He wrote once that: 'It seems to me nonsense, in a period like our own, to think that one can avoid writing of such subjects.' Orwell prize goes to 'chilling' study of Baha Mousa's death 2013-05-15T19:30:01Z Chekhov once wrote of his own dramatic intentions, “All I wanted was to say honestly to people: ‘Have a look at yourselves and see how bad and dreary your lives are!’ Antaeus Company's 'Uncle Vanya' is a sharp execution of midlife drift 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z Although Wolfe ultimately judges his search a failure — near the end of the book he writes of his “chronic inability to find Bix” — the journey itself is well worth reading about. Hot Tracks: Summer’s Big Books on Rock, Pop, Soul and Jazz 2017-05-30T04:00:00Z Then came the writing of a cheque, arranging our next appointment, the walk to the door… and that hug. What the therapist heard: ‘What would you do if your client behaved like a dog?’ 2019-12-21T05:00:00Z “The city was dying,” he writes of an early gig at the legendary Sound Factory, “but in here we were creating our own little Day-Glo, consequence-free world.” Moby describes his rise from small town to stardom 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z In “Walden,” Thoreau writes of a starving, exhausted man lost in the woods whose loneliness is relieved by “grotesque visions” that he takes to be real. | 'Letters From the Big Man': ?Letters From the Big Man? Stars Lily Rabe - Review 2011-11-10T21:57:13Z His friend Adam Gopnik wrote of him: “He smelled faintly, richly, of limes.” Richard Avedon, a Photographer Who Wanted to Outrun the Glitz Factor 2020-10-19T04:00:00Z His skill at shifting gears midsentence, flinging the reader from absurdity to reality and back, conjures the sublime early writing of Woody Allen. A Toddler Detective, Pirate Parents and Other Witty Treats in Simon Rich’s ‘New Teeth’ 2021-08-04T04:00:00Z “I am an unreliable narrator, hypervigilant to the point of being paranoid,” she writes of the experience at the nail salon. ‘Minor Feelings’ Rescues Personal Experience From the Expectations of Others 2020-02-17T05:00:00Z His work encompassed painting in oils, , the writing of several books, and the playing and teaching of the violin. Herbert Whone obituary 2011-08-03T18:33:10Z These evocations are woven into string writing of a strongly minimalist bent, smoothly but seemingly randomly. Review: Kronos Quartet, in an Emotionally Packed Performance 2015-03-08T05:00:00Z She wrote of her triumphs and struggles in her 1994 autobiography, A Dream Is a Wish Your Heart Makes the title taken from a Disney song. Mouseketeer Annette Funicello dies at 70 of complications from MS 2013-04-08T19:33:01Z “I could feel the difference whenever I went to sit with him in his den,” Abdul-Jabbar wrote of the latter stage of the relationship. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar memorializes the great John Wooden in 'Coach Wooden and Me' 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z “As far as I was concerned, the optics were just right,” she writes of that first party. In revealing new memoir, Michelle Obama candidly shares her story 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z A journalist once wrote of Goldblum that trying to pin him down is "like trying to nail jelly to a greased piglet". Jeff Goldblum: the Buddha of Hollywood 2010-07-12T20:30:00Z In the liner notes, he writes of taking the subway to and from the gigs like he's playing for a few friends, but that's OK. Olivia Chaney's 'Longest River' album flows with distinctive beauty 2015-06-20T04:00:00Z “He has consistently advanced his own sordid desires and fixations over the well-being of others,” prosecutors wrote of Weinstein. Weinstein to be sentenced for sex crimes after watershed #MeToo trial 2020-03-11T04:00:00Z They “seemed to inhabit another world,” he writes of the top-40 jocks. Remembering Dick Clark: The Bandstand Years 2012-04-18T22:50:00Z As the tree guru Michael Dirr writes of planting the silver birch in such a setting, “you might as well send a formal dinner invitation to the bronze birch borer.” Longing for the snow-white birch tree of our northern neighbors 2018-12-31T05:00:00Z “Her life was a war life; the war was her life,” Egan writes of Anna at one point. In ‘Manhattan Beach,’ Jennifer Egan Sets a Crime Story on the Waterfront 2017-10-03T04:00:00Z One is Kevin Pang, a food writer in Chicago who recently wrote of his revulsion for The Takeout, a food website affiliated with The Onion. Is America Ready to Love Cottage Cheese Again? 2018-06-26T04:00:00Z O’Hara wrote of his own time on Fire Island in the poem “A True Account of Talking to the Sun on Fire Island.” Fire Island Poetry Festival to Honor Frank O'Hara 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z These were the grim, prescient ruminations that preceded Herzl’s writing of “The Jewish State” and the first Zionist Congress of 1897 in Basel. Millenniums of Tribulation 2017-12-18T05:00:00Z One friend wrote of how she had reconnected with her competitive side, and maybe this is what I’m feeling the most. Lonnae O’Neal: The (painful) birth of a basketball dad 2015-02-08T05:00:00Z “Farley Granger comes with a fresh point of view — as well as a full head of hair,” Brooks Atkinson wrote of the City Center performance in The New York Times. Farley Granger, Screen Idol of the 1950s, Dies at 85 2011-03-29T15:27:56Z She described the writing of the memoir as a "spiritual journey". Samuel Johnson prize winner 'felt rage' 2014-11-05T05:00:00Z “To me, it beautifully captures both the hardships and oppressions human being inflict on one another time and again,” Sarah Twiest, 42, of San Francisco, wrote of the book. How ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ Changed Their Lives 2016-02-19T05:00:00Z In an email to me from April 2019, he wrote of feeling “terrible pain and exhaustion, much worse than last time.” A Critic and a Pianist, Close but Not Quite Friends 2021-02-04T05:00:00Z “It is assured and elegant, like a bird,” he wrote of a pterosaur in flight, “and not at all reminiscent of bats.” Exhibition Review: Natural History Museum Explores the Wonders of Pterosaurs 2014-04-10T14:00:02Z “Lies are the natural food of boyhood, and he had eaten greedily,” Forster writes of Maurice, who pledges no longer to feign an attraction to women, recognizing honesty as his only chance for salvation. Gay Literature Is Out of the Closet. So Why Is Deception a Big Theme? 2020-04-26T04:00:00Z But there was something in the actual writing of that paragraph that tore me apart. Samira Wiley, of ‘Orange Is the New Black,’ on Poussey’s Big Episode 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z Finding Viardot’s music charming, they wrote of their certainty that it would have “a successful run through the world.” A Queen of 19th-Century Opera Gets New Attention 2021-07-16T04:00:00Z My favorite writing of his was a March 1997 New York Times Magazine essay, “Nearing 90.” Wilma Rudolph, Nuclear Fusion and Other Letters to the Editor 2021-09-10T04:00:00Z Music was "the only comfort for my existential dread," Zauner writes of her life as a teenager in the Pacific Northwest. Japanese Breakfast’s Michelle Zauner is fighting for joy through grief 2021-04-19T04:00:00Z “Some days she is completely herself,” Mirandi wrote of her sister, “funny as hell, etc, but it’s unreliable and sometimes she throws tantrums and hates everybody.” The Eve Babitz Revival 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z The mourning, you'd say, is less for the reading or writing of letters than for the care for friendship which they imply. Here and Now: Letters, 2008‑2011 by Paul Auster and JM Coetzee – review 2013-05-20T07:00:02Z "Well, of course I minded, but of course I caved," he wrote of being billed behind Bacon and Penn. 10 surprising facts about Val Kilmer 2021-08-21T04:00:00Z “She said I shouldn’t be scared of something 'transcendental' like reading and writing,” Levy writes of one early teacher, a nun in the South African city of Durban. Deborah Levy on the writer's inner life 2014-06-04T04:00:00Z In that book, she wrote of realizing how little she knew about her own heritage, and of trying to fill in the gaps. Cecile Pineda, Latina Writer Known for a Novel of Identity, Dies at 89 2022-08-17T04:00:00Z But there was also promise, such as the dense chords and almost-bluesy trumpet writing of “Sober Miles” and the occasionally Minimalist-influenced miniatures like “Zebras” and “Three Elephants.” Review: Carnegie Hall Makes an Intimate Space More Intimate 2023-01-20T05:00:00Z How does this time and the writing of your memoir lead you to think about the current plight of the trans community and the future? "Sissy" author Jacob Tobia says we all have "a coming-of-gender story" 2019-03-10T05:00:00Z “I think of him now, abroad in the world,” Joseph writes of Pinocchio. Review | In Edward Carey’s ‘The Swallowed Man,’ ‘Pinocchio’ gets a reboot 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z “I want to understand Luther himself,” Roper, a historian at Oxford, writes of her project. New in Paperback: ‘The Ministry of Utmost Happiness,’ ‘Where the Water Goes’ 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z “If you cut out the destructive element,” Packer writes of his subject, “you would kill the thing that made him almost great.” The Agony and the Ecstasy of Richard Holbrooke 2019-05-07T04:00:00Z Known for his humble nature, his empathy for the poor and a lifelong commitment to rural Spain and its traditions, he wrote of sheepherders, cheese-makers, blacksmiths and hunters. Miguel Delibes, Prolific Spanish Writer, Dies at 89 2010-03-18T05:38:00Z Roland Barthes writes of how, after leaving a theatre, it is as though he has emerged from hypnosis, with its inevitable association with psychoanalysis. The Shuttered Lincoln Plaza Cinemas Is a Cultural Crime Scene 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z “I imagine the River Styx and ferryman Charon transporting souls of travelers,” he writes of “The Transit of Shadows: An Allegory,” his Multiple Exposures Gallery show. Review | In the galleries: Intellectually engaging, visually striking and open to interpretation 2021-10-06T04:00:00Z They write of how by the time he was forced out, he had lost his sense of practicality as well as some of his best early collaborators, whom he did a fine job of alienating. Review: ‘Becoming Steve Jobs’ Focuses on Another Apple Era 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z “A rude and brainless subculture of fascist drunks,” Hunter S. Thompson wrote of sportswriters covering the 1973 Super Bowl. Review, ‘Football: Great Writing about the National Sport,’ edited by John Schulian In a letter around the time of the premiere, he wrote of the synergy between folk lyrics and scripture, calling it “striking” and “natural.” Review: ‘The Ordering of Moses’ Shines at Riverside Church 2022-06-19T04:00:00Z “My photographs are acts of eloquent homage and deep remorse about the city,” Mr. Stettner wrote of his New York work. Louis Stettner, Who Photographed the Everyday New York and Paris, Dies at 93 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z Are there any rules that absolutely have to be observed during the writing of an episode, or any lines that cannot be crossed? An interview with the dean of "Community" 2011-09-28T22:30:00Z Even the Florentine Ghiberti was susceptible to their fascination, writing of Martini and Memmi that “they were gentle masters, their paintings done with great diligence, and most delicately finished.” Review: A Sculptural Showcase in Siena 2010-06-18T15:30:00Z “Jeez, but it was fun to be a teenager dropped in the middle of a revolution!” he writes of his early activism. Harvey Fierstein Sings the Song of Himself in ‘I Was Better Last Night’ 2022-02-28T05:00:00Z Her writing of the book coincided with a third pregnancy, during which she must have been plagued by fears. The Mother of Frankenstein 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z “The swimming body floats lightly upon the water, spins and dives with ease,” she wrote of the work. Shigeko Kubota, a Creator of Video Sculptures, Dies at 77 2015-07-27T04:00:00Z At times, Varble insisted he was Marie Debris, a performance character that evolved into an alter ego; he also spoke and wrote of perhaps having a woman’s mind in a man’s body. A ’70s Performance Artist Finds a New Audience 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z In his diary, Warhol wrote of the ensemble: “Mr. Trump was very upset that it wasn’t color-coordinated.” Trump and the Arts: ‘Evita,’ Huge Towers and a Snub for Warhol 2016-11-18T05:00:00Z There are a lot of references to the orchestral writing of the beginning of the twentieth century, but the way it's handled is more contemporary. Gabriel Prokofiev debuts concerto 2014-07-28T04:00:00Z Anthony Sampson, sometime editor of the influential Drum Magazine, wrote of the way Shakespeare had helped Nelson Mandela and other ANC activists incarcerated by the apartheid government. Power and glory: how to tackle Shakespeare's revolutions 2012-06-20T17:59:07Z “She has an incredible eye for knowing what fits in our world,” they wrote of Ms. Grice in a joint email. The Funny Woman’s Stylist 2022-03-26T04:00:00Z Will the success of The Flamethrowers help or hinder the writing of it? Rachel Kushner: 'I know what it feels like to crash a motorcycle at 140mph' 2013-06-08T23:05:01Z “Quickly or gradually, they eliminated human rights in their countries,” he wrote of the new class of dictators. Ali Salem’s Journey 2015-09-28T04:00:00Z “There’s a moment of cognitive dissonance — a feeling of not-Wilco seeing Tweedy performing songs with other musicians,” the website DFW.com wrote of a performance in late June. Jeff Tweedy, of Wilco, Records With His Son Spencer 2014-09-02T04:00:00Z It is very likely that my notes will be used later on, in the writing of the final draft. Elena Ferrante on ‘My Brilliant Friend’ Moving to the Screen 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z She wrote of undergoing four hours of surgery at Swansea’s Singleton hospital in March last year to a remove a cyst that she later nicknamed Mr Whippy. Woman tells of ‘pregnancy’ that turned out to be 26kg ovarian cyst 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z Richard Nixon’s former personal aide and White House deputy gives an insider’s account of Nixon’s political life and writes of his experiences with figures such as Henry Kissinger, J. Edgar Hoover and Frank Sinatra. Newly Published, From a Nixon Insider to Margaret Atwood 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z Ms. Smith writes of her mother’s initial preoccupation with the singer: “I think the Jacksons represented the possibility that black might be beautiful, that you might be adored in your blackness — worshiped, even.” Can 48 Artists in 14 Rooms Capture Michael Jackson? 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z Williams, a veteran of the Iraq war, writes of the romance and difficulties of her marriage to another veteran, Brian McGough, who suffers from a brain injury and PTSD. 27 essential Memorial Day books 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z At a time when the thriller and horror genres are increasingly subverting stereotypes and sexist writing of "crazy," hysterical or mentally ill female characters, "The Guilty" feels like a step backwards. Netflix's "The Guilty" isn't as progressive and critical of cops as it pretends to be 2021-10-04T04:00:00Z Miodownik writes of his own involvement with materials: he traces his interest back to the shocking impact of a razor blade when he was slashed by a stranger on a London tube station. Stuff Matters by Mark Miodownik – review 2013-07-03T11:15:01Z This was also true of the first of the Greeks to write of the atom: they, too, employed the term for “letter of the alphabet.” The Slowness of Literature and the Shadow of Knowledge 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z “Luck” began as one of the most promising television collaborations in ages: the brainy, off-kilter writing of Mr. Milch, the creator of “Deadwood,” matched with Mr. Mann’s vivid and viscerally cinematic producing style. | 'Luck': ?Luck,? Starring Dustin Hoffman on HBO 2012-01-27T12:00:00Z Or what Zadie Smith means in her essay on Middlemarch when she writes of how, over time, Eliot learned "sympathy for the stumbling errors of human beings". Gender balancing the books 2013-06-08T07:00:00Z Smith admits as much, writing of her “fascination for melancholia” and the poetic potential that resides in her “numinous malady.” The Theology of Patti Smith 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z Rowling tweeted back, "So did I, but it was the culmination of 17 years' work and the most cathartic piece of writing of my life." J.K. Rowling reveals her favorite 'Harry Potter' chapter -- and it's a weeper 2015-10-20T04:00:00Z In his 2007 best-selling autobiography he wrote of drug addiction, alcoholism, infidelity and the death of his 4-year-old son after a fall from a high-rise. Eric Clapton to rock KeyArena Saturday 2011-02-24T22:49:50Z And I think his anxiety about the writing of the show spilled over. An “SNL” mystery solved: This former Weekend Update host once called Tina Fey a very ugly word — and lived to Tweet about it 2015-12-14T05:00:00Z “His brain, both hemispheres, welled up with unanticipated infusions of new information,” she writes of one protagonist. Three New Story Collections Make Place a Protagonist 2023-05-12T04:00:00Z Plays like “A Taste of Honey” and “The Boys in the Band” troubled him as documents of loneliness and self-loathing, and spurred him to write of gay life more affirmatively, more assertively. Harvey Fierstein Sings the Song of Himself in ‘I Was Better Last Night’ 2022-02-28T05:00:00Z “To symbolize the achievement of human creativity and its expression through technology, a space ship was the material object,” he once wrote of the cover. Bob Seidemann, who shot iconic images of Janis Joplin and the Grateful Dead, dies at 75 2017-12-09T05:00:00Z Is there an element of autobiography in the writing of Malcolm? Philip Pullman on His New Trilogy and the upcoming 'His Dark Materials' TV Show 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z When Lawrence writes of an insomniac Gudrun in Women in Love that "she was destroyed into perfect consciousness", he gets his frisson. We don't deserve to be lost in translation 2010-04-24T23:08:00Z It would “become the college community’s main street,” he wrote of the skywalk plan in 1972 in the college’s student newspaper, “well above rush-hour traffic at street level.” Ulrich Franzen, Architect of New York Buildings, Dies at 91 2012-10-13T22:25:55Z Ms magazine wrote of her: “This woman is not a feminist.” Why Nancy Friday’s 1970s collection of women’s sexual fantasies still matters 2017-11-06T05:00:00Z “He opened tightly guarded doors for not only Blacks but poor whites as well and, of course, Native Americans, Latinos and Asian Americans,” the American Indian author Maurice Kenny wrote of him. Activist author Amiri Baraka dead at 79 2014-01-09T23:19:00Z A critic once wrote of Charles Munch: “Whether the music is illuminated or driven, it is never just respectable or indifferent. It is alive.” For the Conductor Charles Munch, Virtuosity Meant Taking Risks 2023-02-02T05:00:00Z “I felt at least two inches taller when I walked out of there,” Mr. Cameron wrote of his suit-shopping adventure, “and it wasn’t because of the elevator shoes.” Loren Cameron, 63, Dies; His Camera Brought Transgender Men to Light 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z He wrote of artichokes, and the moon, and friendship. Sharon Olds Sings the Body Electric 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z Rame, who suffered a stroke last year, helped with the writing of many of Fo's plays and was his leading lady. Italian actress Franca Rame, wife and muse of Dario Fo, dies 2013-05-29T12:08:39Z “You’re the loathsome collaborationist of sweet intentions, elite pedigree, high education and general niceness,” he writes of those mainstream environmentalists who fail one or more of his many litmus tests for ideological acceptability. Can the American West Be Saved? 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z There were notebooks from the writing of Oscar Wao, filled with very tall handwriting leaning hard to the right. Junot Díaz: my inspiration for writing This Is How You Lose Her 2012-12-30T00:05:37Z Aside from a few pages at the end where Mr Perry writes of African innovations, including ways of reversing desertification, the book does not quite live up to its promise. Clear-sighted 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z He writes of the “Poles” and the “French,” but what he finds when he compares these groups and others is that people generally reacted much the same way to their neighbors’ disappearance. A New Look at Civilian Life in Europe Under Hitler 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z “I see our tools as an extension of ourselves,” Joshua Miller writes of his Corner Store gallery show. Review | In the galleries: Whimsy rendered starkly, in black and white 2019-06-06T04:00:00Z The author of American freedom in 1776 wrote of American slavery as a necessary evil in this book, widely regarded as the most important political portrait of the nascent United States. A History of Race and Racism in America, in 24 Chapters 2017-02-22T05:00:00Z Saul writes of “his fragility, tenderness, and openness to emotional confusion.” Richard Pryor, Flame-Thrower 2015-03-04T05:00:00Z “Ray Liotta makes him ethereal and real at once,” Caryn James wrote of his portrayal in her Times review, “a relic of an earlier age much more than a ghost from the past.” Ray Liotta, of ‘Goodfellas’ and ‘Field of Dreams,’ Dies at 67 2022-05-26T04:00:00Z A work that prizes youthful passion and exuberance over technical assurance and structural cohesion, the symphony sometimes loses its way, lacks concision and is none too subtle in the bombastic writing of its outer movements. BBCSSO/Titov 2010-04-18T20:45:00Z "They've removed any sex appeal these characters had to appeal to a female 'girl power' audience instead of the core male comic book audience," one disgruntled male wrote of the DC flick at the time. Of course "Cowboy Bebop" is already inciting horny male outrage, and it hasn't even premiered yet 2021-08-24T04:00:00Z Judge writes of his decision to try out for the football team before his senior year, in part to win favor with his distant father. Key revelations from Mark Judge’s addiction memoir, “Wasted” 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z He has written of having submitted articles and then watching as the editor crossed out virtually every word, writing a new article between the lines of the old. Love and Cartagena: Gabriel Garc?a M?rquez Dreamed Here 2010-04-29T22:16:00Z “It is not a partisan painting,” McNaughton writes of his signature work. Bask in the absurdity of this 2018 #MAGA gift guide 2018-12-08T05:00:00Z I would like to offer my gratitude for the writing of Kentucky agrarian, Wendell Berry. Here's What Nick Offerman Is Thankful For 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z In a program essay, Mr. Biss writes of the “lyricism and terror” existing side by side in “the astonishing and often unsettling music of Schubert’s late period.” Review: Two Concerts Explore Schubert, Before He Took His Leave 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z Mr. Toibin writes of the trauma of seeing his own father, with “an enormous gash on the side of his head,” after a brain operation in Ireland. Colm Toibin on Elizabeth Bishop: A Different Kind of Literary Tango 2015-04-21T04:00:00Z As one music critic wrote of her work, it "systematically dismantles the myth of a homogenous Appalachia." Bruce Springsteen and John Mellencamp can teach Jason Aldean a thing or two about small towns 2023-07-30T04:00:00Z In look and technique, these works echo the automatic writing of the surrealists and contemporaneous experiments by Jackson Pollock. Art in the midst of catastrophe — and renewal 2018-02-13T05:00:00Z “The crime story it tells is appalling, and stocked with authentic heroes and villains,” our critic Dwight Garner wrote of the book. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2017-04-20T04:00:00Z In “Space, between humans & gods,” she writes of “ringing the quiet,” and that silent knell suffuses the book, as in “Wormwood”: “So it is at Chernobyl:/The Ferris wheel rusting/for decades in a forest.” Books Of the Times: Five Poets Seasoned by Life 2011-05-29T22:06:07Z Kramer wrote of the "personality transformations" that occurred in a substantial minority of those taking the drug, briefly pausing to speculate as to what impact this might have had on their creativity. Does Prozac help artists be creative? 2013-05-19T06:00:00Z Kennedy writes of N.W.A’s preeminence as if still in awe of its reach even today. Chronicling the ascent and downfall of N.W.A — iconic, contradictory — in 'Parental Discretion Is Advised' 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z “Everything is written in blood,” Henry Miller wrote of Cendrars’s verse and fiction, “but a blood that is saturated with starlight.” Blaise Cendrars at the Morgan: A Modern Match of Poetry and Painting 2023-08-03T04:00:00Z Steven Callahan writes of seeing the first food after his rescue – a cake of chipped coconut topped with a dot of red sugar – and how he looked at it in wonder and thought: “Red!” ‘Reality shrivels. This is your life now’: 88 days trapped in bed to save a pregnancy 2017-10-24T04:00:00Z If you like this book, you might also enjoy: The insightful writing of “Ms. Marvel Vol. 1: No Normal.” The top 10 graphic novels of 2014 Solovitch writes of her own quest to overcome stage fright and get herself to play a recital, a process mirroring Bernstein’s narrative arc in this film. An introduction to the artiste as a terrified performer 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z Spring also has kind words for A. J. Liebling, author of “one of the most delightful accounts ever written of one American gourmand’s love for Paris.” Iconic Food Writers Toppled Off Their Pedestals 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z “Biographers sometimes borrow the attitudes of their subjects,” our critic, Janet Maslin, wrote of this comprehensive examination of the royal union. 9 Books to Read About Queen Elizabeth II 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z In his introduction, he writes of “acutely felt tremors of social and political disintegration.” The Schorske Century 2015-09-28T04:00:00Z “He thought he would spend his whole life being desperate and afraid,” the narrator writes of his brother, Rashid. Review: ‘No Knives in the Kitchens of This City’ Describes a Syrian Hell 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z Even stiff and righteous Confucius never wrote of sex as shameful and thought concubines were permissible in certain situations. China’s schizophrenic sexual revolution 2012-12-23T14:00:00Z The point of view in this anthology frequently moves west, to California, and includes the work and writing of many female painters. ‘Art in America 1945-1970,’ Edited by Jed Perl 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z “The wrecking ball was a familiar sight,” Renton writes of London after the war, “demolishing the private palaces in which the Wyndhams had danced to make way for natty blocks of flats.” Review | These three sisters were the one percent of the one percent — before it all crashed 2018-06-08T04:00:00Z “They are their own tombstones and their own mourners,” Carr wrote of the remnants of trees that had been cut down. Vancouver Island, Through an Artist’s Eyes 2017-10-02T04:00:00Z The reviewer for this paper wrote of your “powerful … unhurried detachment.” Steven Seagal: ‘I like to go after murderers, bank robbers, rapists, kidnappers’ 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z “Don’t expect to play golf or stay at the Ritz; the main pursuits are swimming and beachcombing,” he writes of Ocracoke. 'Dr. Beach' ranks best American beaches for 2019, puts idyllic Hawaiian spot at No. 1 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z “I imagined myself exiting a primitive cave and striding onto terra firma,” she writes of the moment when she turned her back on religion. Books About Losing Faith That Will Give You Hope 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z As Arthur Machen once wrote of the book, it “mixes mirth and murder with immense spirit and success.” ‘The Deadly Dowager’: A new look at one of the great villains of modern literature 2016-08-17T04:00:00Z Scott’s take: “The antic cleverness serves a sincere and generous heart,” our critic wrote of the film directed by Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, who work under the name the Daniels. The Best Films of 2022, So Far 2022-07-01T04:00:00Z He is also much inspired by the writing of Langston Hughes, a key figure in the 1920s Harlem Renaissance. Arinze Kene: 'At home, I'm Nigerian. I go out and I'm a British kid' 2013-02-25T18:59:01Z “In the clarity after the rain, the valley appeared as a living version of Cézanne’s landscape,” she writes of Provence. Review: ‘Lisette’s List,’ by Susan Vreeland I did not undertake the writing of this book thinking that it was one thing or the other, or even that books in general have to be one thing or the other. Justin Cronin?s ?Passage? May Be a Best Seller 2010-06-01T22:14:00Z “The belief that they were special, that they had the stones to endure what others couldn’t, was the most quintessentially Texas thing about them,” Locke writes of Darren’s family. ‘Bluebird, Bluebird’: No black-and-white answers in this tale of race and murder 2017-09-19T04:00:00Z Likewise, at the close of the book, she writes of the recovering alcoholics she met in A.A.: Can Sobriety Be as Interesting as Addiction? A Writer Wonders 2018-04-17T04:00:00Z “The Yellow House was witness to our lives,” Broom writes of the home where she and most of her 11 older siblings grew up. How do you heal after losing a childhood home? In ‘The Yellow House,’ Sarah M. Broom wonders. 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z In her first book, the memoir “Falling Through the Earth,” Danielle Trussoni wrote of a rough-and-tumble childhood and a father who was irreparably damaged by his experiences as a tunnel rat in the Vietnam War. Books of The Times: Exotic Creatures and the Humans Who Chase Them 2010-03-01T06:01:00Z Elsewhere in the book she writes of the kind of split loyalties that were fostered and exacerbated under colonial rule — another fault line. In ‘Aftershocks,’ a Search for Home in a Life Around the World 2021-01-13T05:00:00Z There is an oft-told story surrounding the writing of “Stairway to Heaven,” holed up in a cabin in Wales. Led Zeppelin loses first court battle in “Stairway to Heaven” lawsuit 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z This straightforward writing of its own mythology as a business is startlingly effective, not just as narrative art but as marketing strategy. Alex Blumberg's podcast revolution is just beginning. NPR: this is your warning 2015-11-07T05:00:00Z The Boston Globe reported Tuesday that Wahlberg wrote of the struggles he faced growing up surrounded by “drugs, violence and crime” in a column in The Huffington Post on Monday. Mark Wahlberg No Longer a High School Dropout 2013-09-18T15:00:12Z You write of the sense of solidarity you felt with other prisoners.We were like a family. Ahmed Errachidi: 'We shared one thing in Guantánamo Bay – pain' 2013-03-30T20:00:01Z As Perelman writes of her recipes, "Use them as a jumping-off point for whatever is in your fridge." A stick-to-your ribs breakfast salad to start your day right 2023-01-15T05:00:00Z Rankine writes of people, living and breathing, who can’t escape the scrutiny of others and yet go unrecognized in the ways that matter. The Best Books of 2014 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z Parker was inspired by Blake's poem America: A Prophecy, in which he wrote of "flam'd red meteors" and "terrible wandering comets". Art and science collide to reopen Whitworth gallery 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z “It’s about the most fully committed, emotionally deep, physically harrowing performance I’ve seen in a while,” he wrote of the actress’s performance as an alcoholic, manipulative mother in West Texas. Andrea Riseborough Can’t Believe She Was Nominated for an Oscar, Either 2023-01-24T05:00:00Z Schulz created in Charlie Brown “a man who reflects about his part,” as Benjamin writes of the actor in Brecht’s concept of epic theatre. How “Peanuts” Created a Space for Thinking 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z “He’s been struggling with this history for many years,” Mr. Kramer writes of his fictional counterpart. Larry Kramer’s Novel ‘The American People’ Adds a Gay Dimension to History 2015-04-07T04:00:00Z The writing of “The Testaments” ran parallel to the making of the series, and was a process of subtle coordination. Margaret Atwood returns us to Gilead in ‘The Testaments’ 2019-09-04T04:00:00Z “No one bothered with the future in 1516,” Gleick notes, the year Thomas More wrote of Utopia as a remote island. What came first, the science or the fiction? The answer is in James Gleick's 'Time Travel' 2016-11-07T05:00:00Z In the book, he writes of the evening he decorated a Christmas tree for Moss’s holiday window display with 100 foot-high, sperm-shaped ornaments made of iridescent gold glass. The ‘Kanye West of Furniture’ Is Now Nesting in the ’Burbs 2018-04-10T04:00:00Z “We hurt our spouses, our kids, our reputations, for nothing,” Phair writes of the latter. Review | In recent memoirs, musicians reveal glamorous tantrums, plenty of drug use and the double-edged sword of fame 2019-11-13T05:00:00Z Mouhot wrote of cottages with fruit gardens and country houses for the aristocracy “who come here in the evening for the sake of breathing a purer air than they can find in the city.” In Cambodia, Along the Path to Something Profound 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z In "The Butterfly Mosque," Wilson writes of receiving an offer to teach in Cairo and accepts the position. 'The Butterfly Mosque': Learning to live with love and Islam 2010-06-09T23:48:00Z Graeber writes of having to pinch himself as he watched thousands of people mimicking the hand gestures and rallying cries of activists who were more used to shouting at each other across empty rooms. The Democracy Project: a History, a Crisis, a Movement by David Graeber – review 2013-03-28T16:10:18Z Mr. King writes of harmonics, echoes and “the butterfly effect,” two ways of saying that tampering with the past is a dangerous business. Books of The Times: Stephen King?s ?11/23/63? - Review 2011-10-30T22:44:25Z “I recall connecting to the father-and-son elements and heart in the story right off the bat,” Macchio writes of his first reading of the screenplay. Ralph Macchio Will Always Be ‘The Karate Kid.’ He’s Finally Fine With That. 2022-10-17T04:00:00Z Demick writes of Dharamsala, “I met many Tibetans spinning with indecision. Their families send them photos on WeChat of new cars and motorcycles, remodeled houses and appliances” — the perks of China’s economic boom. The Chinese Town That Became the Self-Immolation Capital of the World 2020-07-28T04:00:00Z “When I review posts . . . I almost envy my own life as though it were someone else’s,” she wrote of one phase of her Instagram life. The Rise of the “Getting Real” Post on Instagram 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z I think that’s why fiction, both the writing of it and the reading of it, is such a civilizing thing. This Week in Fiction: Victor Lodato 2014-09-15T04:00:00Z In the last lines of Charlotte Brontë's novel, the heroine Lucy Snowe writes of her lover, Monsieur Paul, returning to her by sea from three years' enforced exile in the West Indies. Lynn Shepherd's top 10 fictional drownings 2013-03-06T10:30:18Z He makes the aged Proust a character and embeds the writing of the novel into the action that it describes—and the inner life that it captures. Five Films to Stream on Kanopy While New Yorkers Still Can 2019-06-28T04:00:00Z In a letter of 1948, he explicitly disavowed the narrative element, writing of “Office at Night” that “I hope it will not tell any obvious anecdote, for none is intended.” What can fiction writers bring to Edward Hopper’s paintings? 2016-12-27T05:00:00Z “I felt drawn to the sincerity and simplicity of how she was trying to assert her worth while also exposing a weakness and a longing,” Williams wrote of Allison’s songwriting. Soccer Mommy Is Pushing Through the Indie-Rock Growing Pains 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z "It was heartbreaking," Morgan wrote of the tape, saying that McCartney "sounded lonely, miserable and desperate, and even sang 'We Can Work It Out' into the answerphone." CNN star Piers Morgan faces questions over past 2011-12-18T12:47:18Z “This kiss, with this man, is roving, and she feels the five hundred Home Depot trips,” Taddeo writes of Maggie’s first kiss with her English teacher, who’s cleverly evoked as a “man with a wallet.” Sex in the Mirror 2019-07-10T04:00:00Z I discovered it in the writing of it. A. R. Gurney and Bobby Steggert on ?Grand Manner? 2010-06-19T06:40:00Z “Lévi-Strauss appeared not to want to talk about his theories,” Mr. Wilcken writes of this encounter. Books of The Times: A French Thinker Who Crossed Continents and Cultures 2010-10-17T22:25:00Z He writes of Australasian lands before humans arrived as a vanished paradise of biodiversity, and describes evolution throughout Here on Earth, in a phrase translated from Chinese, as "the heavens' performance". Tim Flannery: A life in books 2011-03-14T07:59:01Z “The viewer gets a wide window into African-American life in New York at this time,” Glenn Kenny wrote of the movie in his review for The Times. What’s on TV Monday: ‘The God of High School’ and ‘Personal Problems’ 2020-07-06T04:00:00Z So often people write of late-night quiet, but our late nights were filled with the sound of my son’s labored breathing and the hiss of his nebulizer delivering medicine through a child-size surgical mask. Motherlode Blog: So Much More Than Peter Rabbit 2013-07-29T00:28:08Z “I was thirsty and hungry,” she writes of one long, forced trek. Books of The Times: Held Captive, yet Clinging to Hope 2010-09-20T22:16:00Z Another curious inclusion appears to invert gender roles as Stoker writes of his own "woman's eyes" and professes to Whitman a hope to be "wife to his soul." The queer horror of "Dracula" 2022-08-30T04:00:00Z “The stage setting was unconventional as the program,” the New York Times music critic Olin Downes wrote of a concert he attended at Aeolian Hall, on West 43rd Street, on Feb. 12, 1924. ArtsBeat: Concert to Re-Create Debut of Gershwin’s ‘Rhapsody in Blue’ on 90th Anniversary 2014-01-17T17:09:06Z In writing of things as they should have been, you are letting truth into history. Philip Pullman: The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ 2010-03-27T09:00:00Z “The saddest news about this new concoction,” he wrote of that work in 1997, “is that its music is grindingly, achingly dull.” Alan Rich, Los Angeles Music Critic, Dies at 85 2010-04-27T03:42:00Z “I felt bullied by its dominance,” he writes of global warming, and so he conceived of the essay, which turns into an extended whine about environmental groups for focusing so heavily on carbon emissions. Jonathan Franzen Despairs of a Planet Inhospitable to Birds 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z Much has been written of late about big Benny, thanks to a mad little non-row about class, but let's leave aside the man for a moment, what a bloody actor. Rewind TV: Parade's End; The Last Weekend; Funny Fortnight; The Queen's Mother-in-Law – review 2012-08-25T23:05:59Z In his autobiography Renoir writes of being fired by Zanuck one morning and rehired by him that same evening. DVD: Dana Andrews in Jean Renoir?s ?Swamp Water? on Blu-ray 2012-03-16T17:49:47Z That all the portraits in the book are of people now dead allows Mr. Langella to write of them with a candor rare in celebrity memoirs. ArtsBeat: Theater Talkback: Frank Langella Telling Tales 2012-04-12T19:11:46Z Aside from this episode's eyebrow-raising writing of a character of color and misrepresentation of Journalism 101, it presents a compelling, relevant story from which we can all learn something. The many betrayals of "Ted Lasso" 2021-10-02T04:00:00Z The Irish comedian and memoirist writes of her misadventures in the United States after moving here in her 30s and discovering the joys and pains of independence. New & Noteworthy 2018-07-31T04:00:00Z He starkly writes of “the pathological aspect of thought,” “the disease of thought,” “the machinery of thought.” Books of The Times: ‘A Place in the Country,’ Essays by W. G. Sebald 2014-02-09T22:17:26Z When writing of the ’90s, Ms. Evans fluctuates between restraint and defensiveness, particularly on subjects whose stories are not as triumphant as Hopper’s. ‘Broad Band’ Review: Mothers of Invention 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z In “Late Wife,” the book that won her the Pulitzer, she wrote of the divorce that forced her to start over at middle age. At home with her memory 2015-02-25T05:00:00Z In the town that I based Bliss, Texas, on, there was a school shooting during my writing of this novel. Stefan Merrill Block on his new novel 'Oliver Loving,' which follows the fallout of a tragedy in a small West Texas town 2018-01-19T05:00:00Z “Again and again,” Glaser writes of the era, “the nation’s powerful religious and political institutions collaborated to control women’s bodies and the destinies of babies.” Adoption Used to Be Hush-Hush. This Book Amplifies the Human Toll. 2021-01-22T05:00:00Z She writes of Mitchell’s ability to relive “emotional states, sounds, even bodily movements” as “eidetic” and reports on recent studies of synesthesia, a “sensory cross-wiring in the brain.” Lee Krasner and Joan Mitchell: Abstract Expressionist Lives 2011-07-08T15:56:48Z “It will probably be a long time before all traces of slavery disappear from the minds of the people,” G. T. Basden, a British missionary, wrote of the Igbo in 1921. My Great-Grandfather, the Nigerian Slave-Trader 2018-07-15T04:00:00Z The Mill on the Boot," Tacoma historian Murray Morgan wrote of this "true forest": "There was some hemlock and a scattering of cedar, but the basic tree was Douglas fir. 'Lakewold' book opens door to a magnificent garden 2011-07-29T21:05:05Z In the book, he wrote of being approached at a mall by three women who gushed over his “Sopranos” character. Frank Vincent, Mobster on ‘The Sopranos’ and ‘Goodfellas,’ Dies 2017-09-13T04:00:00Z “To destroy that enemy,” Burke wrote of the Jacobins, “the force opposed to it should be made to bear some analogy and resemblance to the force and spirit which that system exerts.” The Plight of the Political Convert 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z She writes of his return: “Oh, and if you had seen him, when he came home & threw himself into my arms ... in that dumb inarticulate ecstasy which is so affecting.” Exhibition Review: ?In the Company of Animals? Opens at the Morgan Library 2012-03-02T21:47:25Z Toshiro Mifune once wrote of his collaboration with the director Akira Kurosawa, “I have never as an actor done anything that I am proud of other than with him.” Mifune’s Transcendent Films, With and Without Kurosawa 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z “They saved the day and gave compelling performances, but their greenness came through, in different ways,” Anthony Tommasini wrote of the pair in his review in The New York Times. What’s on TV Friday: ‘Queer Eye’ and ‘Wyatt Cenac’s Problem Areas’ 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z There is, in my view, a good deal of luck in – well, in everything actually, but particularly in the planning and writing of a novel. Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks 2012-07-06T21:43:01Z There is a common thread to the writing of Steve Almond. Did the “The Daily Show” make us smarter voters or not? Two satire experts face off 2018-06-09T04:00:00Z In the documentary category, writer/director Charles Ferguson took the prize for best writing of a nonfiction film for "Inside Job." Writers Guild honors "Social Network," "Inception" 2011-02-06T03:59:19Z "You had to listen to everything on the market and try to understand what wasn't there — and what wasn't there was you," he writes of his teenage years. Into the ether with Greil Marcus' ' History of Rock 'n' Roll' 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z In one poem, he writes of “gross-bellied frogs” sitting “poised like mud grenades,” and in another, of “a rat-gray fungus” creeping over a fresh cache of fruit, portending rot and decay. An Appraisal: Capturing Rhythms of Nature in Poems 2013-08-30T23:11:07Z “Careers for women outside the home were hardly the accepted practice,” Ms. Block writes of the era. Amy Beach, a Pioneering American Composer, Turns 150 2017-09-01T04:00:00Z Emily Nussbaum, the TV critic for The New Yorker, wrote of the producer character: “He argues that the idealistic thing to do is not to believe her story.” HBO’s ‘The Newsroom’ Draws Backlash Over Rape Plot 2014-12-08T05:00:00Z She wrote of the fields that were “just like Sark” and the black-and-white cows that were “quite different than ours.” Blond hedgehogs, and more alluring strangeness of the Channel Islands 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z And the cartoonist R. Crumb has written of Cole’s work, “His covers are really noir: spirals, figures falling down through space, big spider webs.” A Return to Slumberland and a Psychedelic Rediscovery 2015-02-18T05:00:00Z She writes of “VPNs, coded chats” — the reality of online communication in contemporary China, haunted by “the bitten and erratic ghosts” of the past. Jenny Xie Explores the Subversive Power of the Concealed and the Overlooked 2022-09-19T04:00:00Z “Even if they recognized her, many parents ignored Giselle as she tried to hand them flyers,” Stewart writes of Burgess’s recruitment efforts. For Homeless Girl Scouts, It’s Not All Badges and Cookies 2020-05-19T04:00:00Z Rule writes of her suspicion: “I forgot about it … A lot of people drove VWs … I heard nothing more to indicate Ted Bundy was a viable suspect.” Too Close to Ted Bundy 2015-10-10T04:00:00Z “I think I made the right move,” Mayer writes of his latest flame. John Mayer is still gross 2012-06-06T18:50:00Z “It’s a gutsy, sensational performance that adds layers to an already spiky, provocative creation,” Manohla Dargis wrote of Ms. Ryan in her review in The New York Times; she named the film a Critic’s Pick. What’s on TV Thursday: ‘Step Brothers’ and ‘The Great Escape’ 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z I am a writer who fishes, not a fisherman who writes, as the great angling writer Roderick Haig-Brown once wrote of himself. Can Montana’s Smith River Survive a Nearby Mine? 2015-07-17T04:00:00Z "It contains," he wrote of the document, "excellent fragments of a much better age, which you would seek in vain to find elsewhere". History in the making: a Roman map… and an 18th-century hoax 2013-07-19T07:30:01Z This brings to mind the review that the Guardian’s Jason Farago wrote of the show. MoMA does Latin American architecture: the High-Low chat with Alexandra Lange 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z "Good Will Hunting" won them an Oscar for best writing of an original screenplay in 1997. Damon and Affleck resurrect 'Good Will Hunting' roles 2016-10-07T04:00:00Z The possibilities are endless when an author's not bound by old conventions, and the writing of these "Fantastic Women" is exciting, engaging and original: very well worth reading. New in sci fi, fantasy and horror: titles by Joan Aiken, Jennifer McMahon and Tin House 2011-08-20T18:05:54Z Of this woman, it could be said — as the collection writes of another femme fatale — “when she advanced she fascinated and when she turned back she destroyed.” In these medieval Arab tales, a heavy dollop of spice 2015-04-01T04:00:00Z Garner writes of this amiable book: “It’s been a long time since I met such a thoroughly normal guy in a memoir.” 13 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-08-12T04:00:00Z In one anecdote from “Elegy for Iris,” he wrote of their last swim together at a favorite spot along a small river in Oxford, she in “her shabby old one-piece swimsuit.” John Bayley, Oxford Don Who Wrote of His Wife, Iris Murdoch, Dies at 89 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z Orwell criticized the writing of his time for vagueness and euphemism, claiming that official-sounding jargon was “designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.” The Hedonic Appeal of “Dreyer’s English” 2019-01-30T05:00:00Z Ms. Kaufman later wrote of soldiers bursting into their home, smashing things and shooting off guns. Bel Kaufman, Who Told What School Was Really Like, Dies at 103 2014-07-25T04:00:00Z “I am such a strange mélange of good and evil,” the poet once wrote of himself, “that it would be difficult to describe me.” Review: ‘Touch of the Poet’ is a Powerful Study in Toxic Pride 2020-10-30T04:00:00Z The opening sentence, the prologue, I wrote that about halfway through the writing of the book, and when I wrote that sentence, I realized this is the way the book should be. Book Talk: Booker nominee Thayil offers bleak Bombay portrait 2012-10-11T09:01:42Z “There are not many masters as little known outside their own countries,” the critic David Thomson wrote of Mr. Rosi in the latest edition of his Biographical Dictionary of Film. Francesco Rosi, Giant of Italian Cinema, Dies at 92 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z Mayer writes of the early lives of the key players, the origin of their fortunes, their personal obsessions and quirks, and the role the operation was able to carve out. ‘Dark Money,’ by Jane Mayer 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z "Let me tell you something about her," he wrote of his wife in the half-chapter of A History of the World in 10½ Chapters, while giving away very little. Levels of Life by Julian Barnes – review 2013-04-10T12:08:06Z “They’ve turned us into drug addicts,” he writes of antiviral medication manufacturers, “and managing us is a very profitable business.” Harvey Fierstein Sings the Song of Himself in ‘I Was Better Last Night’ 2022-02-28T05:00:00Z The 19th-century Sinclair wrote of finding the Peruvian landscape a “great garden,” with soil rich enough to sustain the world. The best travel books of 2021 — so far 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z In that apostrophe to the Blessed Virgin, from his autobiography, Merton wrote of his departure from England: The Modern Monkhood of Thomas Merton 2018-12-28T05:00:00Z As he did in “Marble Season,” Hernandez writes of being young with piercing truth and nonjudgmental clarity. The top 10 graphic novels of 2014 “No wonder they were aghast,” she wrote of the company’s officials. Elsa Dorfman, Who Made Art With Giant Polaroids, Dies at 83 2020-06-02T04:00:00Z This is the most recently written of my top 10, but I have a feeling it too will haunt me for decades, offering surprises with every re-read. Teen book club: Lydia Syson's top 10 historical novels 2012-11-29T16:39:14Z She wrote of family trips in the summer when the late senator would lead his children on explorations of historic battlefields and buildings, trips she said taught her that one person can make a difference. Kara Kennedy, oldest child of late Sen. Ted Kennedy, dies 2011-09-17T18:43:00Z "People kept asking me why they couldn't get this season or that season," Reiser wrote of the sitcom distributed by Sony. Fallout from Sony hack may alter how Hollywood conducts business 2014-12-13T05:00:00Z Miller writes of meeting Parker years later, when they were neighbors in Beverly Hills. A Brilliant, Unknown Memoir About Classic Hollywood 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z “I stayed because my pastor told me that God hates divorce,” she wrote of her own abusive relationship. Behold the Power of #Hashtag Feminism 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z Both the urban and rural locations are realised through lyrically descriptive writing of the highest quality. Your books of the year 2012-12-28T22:55:18Z Much of the most beautiful music over the last two centuries has been conceived for it: imagine how impoverished western music would be without the piano writing of Beethoven, Schubert, Chopin, Brahms, Debussy and beyond. Composing for the piano in black and white 2010-06-03T22:05:00Z “I was soon programming the ballet seasons and overseeing their marketing from my office, first at Alfred Knopf, then at The New Yorker,” he would later write of his time on the board. Robert Gottlieb Didn’t Just Shape Manuscripts. He Shaped Dance, Too. 2023-06-23T04:00:00Z A critic with the IQ of a squirrel once wrote of me: "He's exposed for the rock charlatan that he really is." Portrait of the artist: Meat Loaf, singer 2010-06-21T21:30:00Z “I shall never forget the delightful sensation,” Scott wrote of Rob Roy country in his novel. Follow in the footsteps of Scottish folk hero on the Rob Roy Way 2017-09-15T04:00:00Z She praises the writing of English aristocrat Lord Berners, which traces a class of writers who swanned around together through two wars and terrible economic crashes. Tania Vartan Creates Coats from Furnishing Fabrics 2015-08-18T04:00:00Z The audience wanted “a braggart who lived large and said that it was O.K. to want things,” Poniewozik writes of Trump’s many television appearances in the 1980s and beyond. Which Came First, Trump or TV? 2019-09-06T04:00:00Z Faliveno’s deft writing of gender dynamics is as fluid as gender itself, making it a relief to read. Review | Melissa Faliveno’s ‘Tomboyland’ essays offer funny, moving explorations of self and society 2020-08-10T04:00:00Z The writer who profiled the 12 on the list writes of these critics, "...they form a vital phalanx of critical opinion that chronicles and weighs work that national media outlets are content to ignore." Seattle Times critic honored 2011-11-01T02:01:06Z “I still remember how blown away I was by its visual power,” Mr. Delsaux wrote of “Star Wars.” C?dric Delsaux?s Photographs of ?Star Wars? on Earth 2011-12-11T00:53:02Z Wonderful as the passages about the writing of “The Leopard” are, the deeper story in “Lampedusa” is about a dying man reckoning with his life. Review | The dying author of ‘The Leopard’ finds new life in ‘Lampedusa’ 2019-09-18T04:00:00Z Here’s the premise: The C.I.A. orchestrated the writing of “Wind of Change,” an anthemic power ballad by the German heavy metal band Scorpions. 7 Podcasts to Binge in a Day 2021-03-30T04:00:00Z In 1969, the philosopher Hannah Arendt wrote of the abysmal disinterest of scientists or intellectuals in violence as a subject of serious study, “No one questions or examines what is obvious to all.” “The Raft” Chronicles an Extreme Experiment with Human Nature 2019-07-18T04:00:00Z "A hustler don't stack his money, he shows it on himself for the world to see," Raekwon writes of his early success. Raekwon opens up about life before and with the Wu-Tang Clan 2021-12-11T05:00:00Z These films broke a cold streak for Shyamalan, getting him back in the public’s good graces with his twisty writing of contained proportions. Unbreakable at 20: the film that finally took superheroes seriously 2020-11-23T05:00:00Z “They were a difficult and exacting audience — those little creatures,” he wrote of his daughters in his journal. A Rediscovered Mark Twain Fairy Tale Is Coming Soon 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z “The sunny skies pulse with a blue you could fly into,” he writes of her paintings, which depict the rural scenes and characters of her childhood. More Than a Muse 2022-08-09T04:00:00Z In “From a Window” he writes of being “Incurable and unbelieving/in any truth but the truth of grieving.” Books of The Times: Poems of Pain, the Raw and the Remembered 2011-02-09T23:57:30Z “He was political,” she writes of one character’s boyfriend. Reviews: New Books From Anne Roiphe, Nickolas Butler and More 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z The writing of her character is some of the most finely wrought I’ve seen on the series. 'Girls' Recap: An Awkward Date Night for Hannah 2015-03-01T05:00:00Z “She was struck by the silence of the place,” Bowles writes of Kit, who is traveling with her husband, Port. Morocco, From Coast to Desert 2015-02-06T05:00:00Z “They demand that the state build the infrastructure that makes their land usable,” Stein writes of developers. The Plight of the Urban Planner 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z The era that Bourdain wrote of was the one in which this work was, he observed, for those of us either on our way to or just out of jail. ‘Sweetbitter,’ by Stephanie Danler 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z Among the various pieces collected in the second half of “The Ghosts of Birds” is a review that Weinberger wrote of George W. Bush’s memoir, “Decision Points.” The Unclassifiable Essays of Eliot Weinberger 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z “Xavier LeBo believed was he 10 years younger, they’d be letting good times roll all over this boat,” Mr. Leonard writes of the book’s never-say-die hero. Books of The Times: As Pirates Swash Their Buckles 2010-10-10T19:00:00Z “White people are ghosts,” Blight wrote of Ellison’s work, “invisible to themselves.” Buck Ellison’s Great White Society 2022-06-24T04:00:00Z Another critic wrote of the show: "White is bad, we're told here, or utterly uninteresting." Daniel Joseph Martinez offers a front-row seat to a famous artistic murder -- starring himself 2016-04-23T04:00:00Z Bertolt Brecht wrote of a single brick proving how nicely a house once stood. Loss haunts the gay Arab San Franciscan at the heart of Rabih Alameddine's new novel, 'Angel of History' 2016-10-16T04:00:00Z Li Bai often wrote of the moon, but the space in the painting is a vacant field. Chinese paintings at LACMA captivate with their delicacy 2014-05-17T04:00:00Z “What he avoids above all is the finishing touch,” Mr. Steinberg wrote of Rodin, “his secret dream being to keep every work going like a stoked fire — forever, if possible.” Leo Steinberg, Adventurous Art Historian, Dies at 90 2011-03-14T23:19:13Z Exhibits highlight the writing of the Constitution as well as issues that were to shape the fledgling nation — slavery, migration and immigration. This interactive museum outside Williamsburg, Va., brings the American Revolution to life 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z Mr. Jacobson was involved in the plots and writing of Richie Rich stories at the peak of the character’s popularity, when he appeared in several different books. Sid Jacobson, Comic Book Writer With Range, Dies at 92 2022-08-06T04:00:00Z A careful center-left technocrat, Hudak writes of trends in cannabis legislation and production, praising cannabis “entrepreneurs” who “have invested in development and become more innovative,” demonstrating “the laboratories of democracy at work.” Marijuana won big on election night: Four books to help process our new reality 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z “At the time, I was reading a lot of Dylan Thomas, and I was really into the concept of internal rhyme,” Mr. Walker wrote of the song’s origin in his 1999 memoir, “Gypsy Songman.” Jerry Jeff Walker, Who Wrote and Sang ‘Mr. Bojangles,’ Dies at 78 2020-10-24T04:00:00Z “She wants no part of Cuba,” Garcia writes of this young woman, “no part of its wretched carnival floats creaking with lies, no part of Cuba at all.” 25 Great Books by Refugees in America 2017-01-30T05:00:00Z Musique concrète carves up bluegrass, quasi-serialism darkens the blues, and in the writing of this little notice, I have found out how well it follows, or precedes, Mantra. Paul Morley on music: Stockhausen 2010-08-21T23:06:00Z In 1958, The New York Times wrote of their “gossamer lightness” and the way “the circular and oval shapes seem like magic lanterns, one within the other.” Ruth Asawa, an Artist Who Wove Wire, Dies at 87 2013-08-17T23:07:13Z A Marine Corps combat veteran but son of pacifist parents, Busch writes of his youthful enthusiasm for all things military. 25 best books of 2012 2012-12-13T00:31:12Z Maybe it’s the funny, evolved writing of this sixth and final season. Let me be misunderstood: The final episode of HBO’s “Girls” and how we really feel about Hannah Horvath 2017-04-15T04:00:00Z I think this book is a watershed in the writing of human history. How to live well: A handy reading list 2012-12-10T12:45:00Z “It expresses his identity,” he writes of Leatherface, “and his identity is that he has no identity.” ‘Texas Chain Saw Massacre’ and the Lessons Few Horror Films Get Right 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z She writes of the past with not only thought but feeling too: you sense her heart in it, not least in her marvelous sense of how ballet at many junctures was revitalized by pioneering women. Critic?s Notebook: Is Ballet Dying? Sure, It?s Died Many Times 2011-01-05T00:02:49Z “There is so much of her life she doesn’t understand,” Tallent writes of Turtle. A Heroine in the Mold of Huck and Scout 2017-08-29T04:00:00Z “Every man, I think, reads one book in his life, and this one is mine,” he wrote of “Walden” in a 1953 New Yorker piece. “Every man reads one book in his life, and this one is mine”: E.B. White’s lifelong conversation with Thoreau’s “Walden” 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z But I'm not sure it truly represents the best romantic writing of the last half century. Call this romance? 2010-09-16T10:52:00Z When Lazarus writes of the “huddled masses” and the “wretched refuse,” she wasn’t waxing poetic; she was documenting a crisis and trying to bring into being a great nation’s magnanimous response. Perspective | Don’t let the Trump administration vandalize Lady Liberty’s inspiring message 2019-08-14T04:00:00Z “Something to think about the next time you eat at the salad bar,” a Twitter account called WTF wrote of the footage. Man eats soup directly from supermarket hot bar, enrages Twitter: 'Who does that?' 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z But Joubert's music, with its well-judged use of dissonance within a tonal context, seems much more striking when anguished and despairing than in the rather bland diatonic choral writing of the final two movements. An English Requiem 2010-08-11T21:00:00Z Hemingway realised his mistake too late, writing of Richardson in A Movable Feast: "I wished I had died before I loved anyone but her." Hadley Freeman's 10 awesome women: from Katharine Hepburn to Miss Piggy 2013-04-22T15:38:00Z Kirchick writes of Nancy Reagan: “Her own persona is inescapably, irrepressibly gay, embodied by the retinue that designed, dressed, escorted, entertained, flattered, housed, humored, pampered, styled and titillated her.” ‘Secret City,’ an Epic Narrative History of the Closet in the Capital 2022-05-22T04:00:00Z Literature is her main window to the outside world, and was her solace during years of war: She writes of reading Italo Calvino by candlelight “while people killed each other outside my window.” This Is the Beirut We Wish You Could See 2018-04-10T04:00:00Z In his great poem “Musée des Beaux Arts,” W. H. Auden wrote of how suffering “takes place while someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along.” | 'Sons of the Prophet': ?Sons of the Prophet? at Laura Pels Theater - Review 2011-10-21T02:14:08Z Nevertheless, the drawbacks of the electronic process are already apparent during the writing of the manuscript. G?nter Grass writes final autobiography 2010-08-24T13:25:00Z There was a documentary we watched during the writing of the script that the producer had put together. ArtsBeat: Tribeca: Juliette Binoche on Acting From Insecurity 2012-04-25T14:17:19Z In her 2015 memoir, “Becoming Maria: Love and Chaos in the South Bronx,” she writes of living in poverty with an abusive, alcoholic father who frequently beat her mother. In ‘Alma’s Way,’ a Young Latina Thinks for Herself, Like Her Creator 2021-10-03T04:00:00Z Even before he became a public man, he wrote of his affinity for socialism. Martin, Malcolm and the Fight for Equality 2020-03-31T04:00:00Z In his memoir, he writes of his love of the United States, first forged as a law student in Pakistan; his faith; and his family’s values. New in Paperback: ‘An American Family,’ ‘Red Clocks’ 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z “If we were to stand and scream all our days and our nights, it would not suffice,” the Russian Jewish author Joseph Hayim Brenner wrote of the pogrom. Before the Holocaust, Jewish Suffering Had One Name: Kishinev 2018-07-24T04:00:00Z “At the beginning of the war,” Mr. Stourton writes of the BBC, “the Corporation had not understood the mood of the nation, and believed that people wanted nothing but light music.” ‘Kenneth Clark’ Paints a Portrait of a Cultural Titan 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z “I loved it with an intensity of love that was a kind of nostalgia reversed,” Tolkien wrote of England in his great essay “On Fairy-Stories.” Review | Lose yourself in the places that inspired J.R.R. Tolkien 2020-06-08T04:00:00Z The most powerful, after all, control the writing of their own histories. ‘White on White’ Review: Problematic Images 2021-06-30T04:00:00Z In the exhibition catalog, the scholar James Smalls writes of “sculpting as a colonizing act,” and so it can be. ‘Carpeaux Recast’: A Sculptural Gem With a Knotty Back Story 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z And no wonder: His hometown, once devastated by the shuttering of a Studebaker plant — he writes of passing “the acres of collapsing Studebaker factories” on his way to school — is now thriving. A Memoir From the Young, Gay Mayor of South Bend Running for President 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z “Like the founding fathers of other utopian settlements in the past, he was unhappy with the world around him,” he wrote of Mr. Williamson. John Williamson Dies at 80; Founded Sandstone Retreat 2013-05-04T22:36:13Z As an example, Ms. Morrison wrote of simple day-to-day assumptions that accompany whiteness, including the “confidence that you will not be watched in a department store.” What Is the Color of Beauty? 2016-11-26T05:00:00Z “A viewer peering into the box will see her own reflection,” a curator writes of a particularly delicious miniature world by Joseph Cornell. The use and abuse of the feminine in Hirshhorn’s ‘Marvelous Objects’ 2015-10-28T04:00:00Z Revealing they had chosen the name Jack, the model and the musician wrote of their love for their lost son, who would have been their third child. Chrissy Teigen and John Legend grieve their miscarriage 2020-10-01T04:00:00Z “We engaged the percussion players from the New York Philharmonic, but it soon became clear that they could never master the rhythms,” Slonimsky wrote of the recording session in his memoir, “Perfect Pitch.” Into The Music: The Clout of Edgard Var?se?s ?Ionisation? 2010-07-16T14:55:00Z It was, it seems, the wilful ugliness and lumpenness of Nijinsky's evocation of Russian prehistory that was really shocking to audiences – the "knock-kneed Lolitas" Stravinsky wrote of. The Rite of Spring: 'The work of a madman' 2013-02-12T19:59:01Z He writes of his time with the agency, where he witnessed casual cruelty toward migrants. New in Paperback: ‘Force of Nature,’ ‘Feel Free’ 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z That's what I worry about – the fact that there isn't more diversity of expression in the writing of computer scientists. Jaron Lanier: the digital pioneer who became a web rebel –interview 2013-03-17T00:05:39Z Early on, Greg writes of his dismay, during his father's funeral, at all the young writers jostling to get in on the act: "After all, he was my father." Saul Bellow's Heart: A Son's Memoir by Greg Bellow – review 2013-05-25T11:01:01Z And the writing of the book followed a productive period of visual work for Smith. T Magazine: Patti Smith, Requiem Lass 2011-10-14T15:15:24Z The stories and and writing of the Great War has inspired deeply affect us. David Cameron announces £50m fund for first world war commemorations 2012-10-11T19:12:20Z This is one of many Bellini moments that inspired the melodic writing of Chopin, a Bellini devotee. Compelling Singers Lift a Muddled ‘Norma’ at the Metropolitan Opera 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z “It was good for Paul, but not good for me,” Jane wrote of Tangier near the end of her life. The Madness of Queen Jane 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z “The face of London was now indeed strangely altered,” Daniel Defoe wrote of an outbreak of bubonic plague in 1665 that would eventually claim the lives of nearly a quarter of that city’s population. Coronavirus Notebook: Finding Solace, and Connection, in Classic Books 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z As Ada puts it when he impulsively writes of his dream to her and they begin a correspondence, “A machine that creates peace.” Review: ‘Futurity,’ in a Civil War Setting, Wishes for Today’s Technology 2015-10-20T04:00:00Z “Romance at short notice was her specialty,” Saki wrote of the heroine in his short story “The Open Window”; Marian, too, has discovered the usefulness of quick improvisation. In Simon Mawer’s ‘Tightrope,’ a Female Spy Masters the Tools of Her Trade 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z “Subject is a human tumbleweed,” he writes of one person of interest to the police. Cold Cases and Hot Emotions: Marilyn Stasio’s Crime Column 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z “I was favor-trading with people who were causing real-world harm so I could get a pat on the head from some client who wanted self-serving scuttlebutt fed to the rubes,” he writes of his career. ‘Why We Did It’ Is a Dark Ride on the ‘Republican Road to Hell’ 2022-06-29T04:00:00Z “The experience called ‘Orchestral Space ’68’ mapped some new territory for the audiences,” Edmund C. Wilkes of The San Francisco Examiner wrote of that year’s festival in Tokyo. Toshi Ichiyanagi, Avant-Garde Composer and Pianist, Dies at 89 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z “For some reason,” Ms. Dennis-Benn writes of Delores, “the joy and innocence in her daughter only infuriated her. Had Margot known what life could become for girls like her, she would never grin like that.” Review: In ‘Here Comes the Sun,’ a Hustle to Thrive in Jamaica 2016-06-29T04:00:00Z I find myself thanking my 20-year-old self for her sincerity when I wrote my first letter, and how it has shaped my writing of the second. "Dear Father" letters and DNA tests 2021-12-05T05:00:00Z “Art becomes retail surprisingly quickly,” Chayka writes of Marfa, where Judd’s work turned the remote town into a place where upscale tourists can easily procure a vegan sandwich or a glass of rosé. ‘The Longing for Less’ Gets at the Big Appeal of Minimalism 2020-01-21T05:00:00Z “Most soldiers can’t tell you precisely how much death is on their ledger,” Harry writes of his tours during the war. 11 Takeaways From Prince Harry’s Memoir, ‘Spare’ 2023-01-10T05:00:00Z “He had begun to feel the first stirrings of it,” he writes of Green as a teenager, “the longing to transform himself into someone new, that special American itch for the future.” This Novel Revisits a Power Broker Who Trod Lightly and Left a Big Footprint 2021-07-28T04:00:00Z “As I see it, the Academy Awards is not where the ‘real’ battle is,” Lee wrote of the issue. Spike Lee Won't Attend The Oscars, But He Isn't Boycotting 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z Even the writing of the show seems to be treated as a cunning and complicated game. ‘Inside No. 9’ Returns With More Cunning Puzzles 2021-06-21T04:00:00Z Philpott gives us an Australian stretcher-bearer named Henry Freeman, who wrote of marching “through the most beautiful country imaginable . . . wild flowers of every colour and description intermingled with the almost golden corn stretching for miles.” How poppies, strong and fragile, became a symbol of WWI devastation 2018-11-11T05:00:00Z He is told that it would be “hardly possible to write of Jews with more bile and contempt and hatred.” Philip Roth’s journey from “enemy of the Jews” to great Jewish-American novelist 2018-05-30T04:00:00Z It’s the “kind of thing,” Sibelius wrote of this work, that “brings a smile to your lips at the hour of death.” 10 Classical Concerts to Stream in June 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z “It’s as though a lens has been dropped over my vision, giving me heightened self-awareness and emotional intelligence,” she wrote of her own experience. Ayahuasca: A Strong Cup of Tea 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z “He was more of a pagan, but he loved the writing of the Bible, the theater of church with the incense and the beautiful windows and the mood it created.” He Made Kids’ Music and Albums About Lucifer. Now His Work Is a Rock Opera. 2018-01-09T05:00:00Z The writing of Morning was developed in part through workshops with teenagers. Edinburgh festival fringe puts young people on centre stage 2012-08-17T14:15:02Z But I started noticing a progression in his writing of the women. For Shakespeare & Company’s Tina Packer, a Last Romance 2017-08-07T04:00:00Z The Bishop wrote of how easy it was to research targets and gather bomb-making materials on the Internet. Man called 'Bishop' mail bomber to defend self 2012-04-23T01:22:00Z “In the part’s eerie alternation between worldliness and childhood she fashioned a mixture that was both credible and lyrical,” Jack Gould wrote of that performance in The New York Times. Zina Bethune, Actress and Dancer, Dies at 66 2012-02-19T06:37:27Z Their job is to ensure clarity in the writing of others. Diner's Journal: Hey, Mr. Critic: In Search of Fine Dining and Harbor Views 2011-04-20T18:02:52Z From then on, he gave much of his energy to the writing of reviews and essays. Sir Frank Kermode obituary 2010-08-18T13:20:00Z This year is the 200th anniversary of the writing of the national anthem at Fort McHenry in Baltimore. AAA makes travel projections for DC area 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z Let me recap: Schleger writes of crack use that spans 15 years, including weekends lost to binges, out-of-control spending and “deleterious consequences” but nonetheless advocates for a middle ground of moderate use. Addiction isn’t “fun”: The problem with moderation manifestoes 2014-03-03T23:59:00Z “Like a feral cat, she can seem quicksilver and weightless or, when enraged, menacing and bristly and twice her size,” Jesse Green wrote of Negga’s performance in a review in The Times. Ruth Negga Thinks Lady Macbeth Is Misunderstood 2022-06-07T04:00:00Z Featherstone said it that it was during the writing of the episodes for the upcoming 10th series about Harry's past and his relationship with colleague Ruth Evershed that she realised she wanted Spooks to end. BBC's Spooks axed after a decade 2011-08-10T23:01:09Z Elias Canetti once wrote of Kafka that he sought, above all, to preserve his freedom to fail. In ‘Forest Dark,’ Nicole Krauss Plays With Divided Selves 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z “There’s some tension between old and new conceptions of “the artist’s touch,’” he writes of the work. Essential Arts & Culture: Border wall bids, Pritzker's starchitect retreat, Hamburg's magical new concert hall 2017-03-03T05:00:00Z “With one word, I had lost my wife and gained a lifelong patient,” Lukach writes of hearing the word “schizophrenia” applied to her for the first time. New in Memoir: Lessons in Falling in Love, and 2 Accounts of Its Horrors 2017-07-21T04:00:00Z “At her most unhappy,” Oates writes of Jessalyn, “she remained sane. Was that her punishment? — an irrevocable and implacable sanity?” Joyce Carol Oates Takes On Racism and Grief in Her New Novel 2020-06-09T04:00:00Z "She is the daughter of a Yorkshire farmer," Woolf wrote of Holtby, "and learnt to read . . . while minding the pigs – hence her passion for me." Winifred Holtby's South Riding 2011-02-19T00:05:25Z Kindly follow along: "Seven Psychopaths" is a movie about the writing of a movie called "Seven Psychopaths." 'Seven Psychopaths': Crime comedy is a little too bloody clever 2012-10-10T15:52:03Z Sotheby’s also has said through its lawyers that it apprised Ms. Clegg in writing of the risks of submission to the committee. Her ‘Chagall’ Is Headed for the Trash. How’s That for Caveat Emptor? 2022-07-06T04:00:00Z The ME Association wrote of its members’ shock, anger and concern at the suggestions. ‘It was like being buried alive’: battle to recover from chronic fatigue syndrome 2016-02-15T05:00:00Z The anger dissipated over the years, partly through the family meetings and partly through the writing of Guest's memoir, which seemed to act as a sort of therapy. The strange life of Tim Guest 2010-03-28T00:05:00Z William James, whose openness to mystery makes him one of the guiding lights of Pollan’s book, once wrote of the substantial aftermath of mystical experiences: “Dreams cannot stand this test.” A Strait-Laced Writer Explores Psychedelics, and Leaves the Door of Perception Ajar 2018-05-14T04:00:00Z In it, he writes of going from being "too black for TV" to later being accused of "cooning it up." Kid Dyn-o-Mite is a senior citizen, still on road 2012-07-20T17:24:08Z She wrote of collective attempts to make social change and the nightmares of assassination and setback. In a Commanding Literary Voice, Maya Angelou Sang Out to the World 2014-05-28T04:00:00Z In walking with Frost, he had written of the urgent need to protect – and if necessary, to fight for – the life and the landscape around him. Edward Thomas, Robert Frost and the road to war 2011-07-29T21:57:01Z As she wrote of Irving Penn, his portraits are Penns before they are photographs of his subjects. Janet Malcolm, a Withering Critic, in a Nostalgic Key 2019-02-05T05:00:00Z Yes, this is testament to the writing of Hawkins, of “The Girl on the Train” fame. Rosamund Pike Reads Paula Hawkins; and Other Audiobooks to Make Your Head Spin 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z Through the writing of Quinta and other writers and what I'm hopefully bringing to the performance, I'm trying to make her a real person. Why do we love "Abbott Elementary" star Janelle James for being bad? It's simple: "I'm hilarious" 2023-02-14T05:00:00Z But nothing could rob her of her love of poets and artists and education, and the sweetest memories I have of her are like the writing of hers I saw and remember: tender, lyrical, true. Two Sister-Poets Gone Too Soon: Ntozake Shange and My Sister 2018-11-17T05:00:00Z “Why he loved silver so much I don’t know,” Warhol wrote of the man who later rechristened himself Billy Name. Billy Name, Who Glazed Warhol’s Factory in Silver, Dies at 76 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z “I don’t think she ever truly thought of the consequences of her actions,” Morton wrote of Diana in a forward to a revised edition of the book after the Princess’s death. ‘The Crown’: What to Read and Watch About Diana 2020-11-17T05:00:00Z “That one post changed everything,” The Hollywood Reporter wrote of the potential power of Whisper in show business. In Hollywood, Apps Like Whisper Dish Dirt 2014-07-25T04:00:00Z He wrote of going to a retreat called the Advocate Experience in San Francisco. A literary feud for the ages: What fueled the bad blood between Dominick Dunne and “the Didions” 2017-04-16T04:00:00Z “Death in this ‘ancient and deathless’ terrain is always too close, where the land is sometimes a resplendent spectacle, more often a callous god,” our reviewer, Chanelle Benz, wrote of this novel. New in Paperback: Dana Spiotta and Juan Gonzalez 2022-06-17T04:00:00Z “The dominant quality of this work, composed by a woman, is precisely what one would least expect to find,” a critic wrote of her First Symphony in 1845. Louise Farrenc, 19th-Century Composer, Surges Back Into Sound 2021-10-08T04:00:00Z “I still lived in a world of logic and purpose and resolve,” he writes of the early days, “and I hadn’t figured out how much pointlessness a hostage has to put up with.” Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: A Journalist Recalls the Terror (and Boredom) of Being Held Hostage 2018-11-18T05:00:00Z Did she willingly participate in the writing of "The Mockingbird Next Door" only to forget doing so? A deeper look at the mystery of Harper Lee 2014-07-21T04:00:00Z Everything he has written before, Mr. Fugard said, was “a journey to the writing of this play.” Athol Fugard?s Next Act: Driving Out Apartheid?s Ghost 2010-03-13T00:01:00Z “Down, down into the midst of ordinary things the finger fell making the moment solemn,” Woolf wrote of one of the many existential shivers that Clarissa confronts on the June day chronicled in “Mrs. Dalloway.” | 'Septimus and Clarissa': ?Septimus and Clarissa,? an Adaptation of ?Mrs. Dalloway? - Review 2011-09-16T02:01:01Z It's not just some of the best writing in the book, it's some of the best writing of Moody's career. Rick Moody's uneven 'Hotels of North America' is not worth a stay 2015-11-13T05:00:00Z Drug use inspires the finest writing in “Christodora,” and Murphy writes of addiction with sympathy and pathos. ‘Christodora’: A powerful novel about the AIDS crisis and its legacy 2016-07-31T04:00:00Z “I haven’t stopped arguing with Lucy for 37 years,” she writes of her dead daughter. In Yiyun Li’s Latest, a Grieving Mother Desperately Clings to Memory 2020-07-28T04:00:00Z But also the writing of the script was a collaborative process. What "O.G." star Jeffrey Wright learned from the real inmate actors in his new HBO film 2019-02-27T05:00:00Z “I prefer not to see the strength of my arm in the painting but only the poetry of my heart,” he wrote of this change. Arshile Gorky’s Art of Bliss Remembered 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z Mark Shriver writes of painful yet warm recollections from the last years of his dad's life, which was strongly buoyed by his faith in Catholicism. Mark Shriver explores what made 'Sarge' a good man 2012-06-16T19:46:04Z Poignantly he wrote of himself: "If I had been a woman, I never should have loved the kind of person that I am." John Ruskin's marriage: what really happened 2013-03-29T16:00:01Z In 1948, Aaron Copland wrote of his younger colleague Shapero that “few musicians of our time put their pieces together with greater security,” adding that Shapero’s technical adroitness serves “a wonderfully spontaneous musical gift.” Hear 7 of the Best Works From a Neglected Era of American Music 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z Finally, in the last lines of the book, she writes of hurling herself over the border to Switzerland, her clothes tearing on the barbed wire. Her Francophilia Saved Her From the Death Camps, but Not From Great Danger 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z But the guts of dictionary-making is the writing of definitions, which for science fiction terms carries particular challenges. Tracking the Vocabulary of Sci-Fi, from Aerocar to Zero-Gravity 2021-01-26T05:00:00Z But Jefferson rarely wrote of Hemings, possibly in an attempt to cloak her role in his life. For decades they hid Jefferson’s relationship with her. Now Monticello is making room for Sally Hemings. 2017-02-18T05:00:00Z But the actual writing of the piece took relatively little time, curiously much less than the work on one of my piano études. The Philharmonic Takes on a Composer of Puzzles and Turns 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z Middlebrook did not live to write of Ovid’s composition of “The Metamorphoses” or his final decade in exile after being banished from Rome, for an unknown offense, by the Emperor Augustus. Books to Watch Out For: December 2014-12-15T05:00:00Z She wrote of her triumphs and struggles in her 1994 autobiography, "A Dream Is a Wish Your Heart Makes" - the title taken from a Disney song. Annette Funicello, Mouseketeer and film star, dies 2013-04-08T17:35:09Z “My dumpling,” she wrote of the family moment. Instagram influencer praised for 'real' postpartum photo after backlash 2019-08-02T04:00:00Z Rivera, who died tragically in 2020 and left behind a young son, had written of feuds, partying and hook-ups among the cast. "Funny Girl" gives Lea Michele a stage to poke fun at those literacy rumors 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z Naylor notes that popular historian Murray Morgan wrote of this dilemma in a jocular vein. ‘Frontier Boosters’: Port Townsend’s elusive dream 2014-04-02T23:42:55Z Prince writes of her “nude” florentines that “without the chocolate, the caramelised nuts and fruit flavours are better appreciated”, and I’m inclined to agree. How to bake the perfect florentines 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z He writes of the 2009 squad, "Many of the Rays' best subtle advantages result from old-fashioned player development and instruction more than data-crunching." 'Extra 2%' doesn't deliver on Wall Street promise 2011-03-28T11:38:08Z Jesse Albrecht writes of being deprived of the requisite Small Arms Protective Insert when he served as a medic in Iraq. Resistance in clay: Ceramic artists speak out against Trump, war and more in 'We the People' 2017-08-29T04:00:00Z In his well-received 2014 memoir, “Even This I Get to Experience,” Lear writes of his euphoria on visits to Washington, how being in the White House makes him feel “a foot taller.” Norman Lear put his foot down — and Trump’s White House flinched 2017-11-26T05:00:00Z “She’s not telling these stories to inspire people or induce our pity,” the poet Kathi Wolfe wrote of “Waist-High in the World” in The Progressive. Nancy Mairs, Who Wrote About Her Mental Illness and Multiple Sclerosis, Dies at 73 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z “All the years she was alive,” she writes of her father, “she’d sought to settle the question of who she was. Jew or Christian? Hungarian or American? Woman or man? So many oppositions.” My Father, the Shapeshifter 2016-12-31T05:00:00Z “I searched the Internet, and I couldn’t find a video of an actual surgical procedure in the clinic that focused on the woman’s experience,” she recently wrote of the decision to film her abortion. “There is so much shame”: Emily Letts on why she filmed her abortion — and what happened next 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z Murata’s presentation of alienation as a natural response to the pressures of conformity may not give us much that wasn’t on offer in, say, European existentialist writing of nearly a century ago. To Sayaka Murata, Nonconformity Is a Slippery Slope 2020-10-06T04:00:00Z He writes of his frequent tears and how it feels to mourn someone who is alive and of his furious remorse whenever he loses his temper with her. My Bonnie: How Dementia Stole the Love of my Life by John Suchet; and Keeper: Living with Nancy. A Journey Into Alzheimer's by Andrea Gillies 2010-06-12T23:06:00Z “It makes almost any other portrait of American adolescence look like the picture of Dorian Gray,” Janet Maslin wrote of the unrated film in her review for The New York Times. ‘Kids,’ Then and Now 2015-07-21T04:00:00Z The writing of the characters’ dialogue is often shaky, and noticeably weaker when it gets too far from Fitzgerald’s pared-down style. ‘The Great Gatsby’ Review: Raising a Glass to an American Tragedy 2023-06-29T04:00:00Z In his diary on Dec. 17, 1940, he wrote of buying a number of master violins for use by German violinists. Nejiko Suwa and Joseph Goebbels’s Gift 2012-09-21T17:36:28Z Nobleman called the writing of both books an adventure. The creators of Batman and Superman have an incredible story to tell 2015-12-15T05:00:00Z Whether on blogs or Facebook, in tweets or poems, what matters in confessionalism is not the dirty or trivial detail itself but the writing of it. 81 Austerities by Sam Riviere – review 2012-08-03T21:55:07Z “The dominoes were falling: soon all of Eastern Europe would be free,” he writes of the tumultuous weeks after the Berlin Wall came down. Bill Browder’s ‘Red Notice,’ About His Russian Misadventures 2015-02-01T05:00:00Z In my first paragraph, I pose the question that drives all 24 chapters: To what degree do our bodily limitations of ear and eye and memory shape our reading and writing of poetry? John Keats, Chopped Prose and Other Letters to the Editor 2022-04-29T04:00:00Z Harvard literary critic Helen Vendler once wrote of his work: “Is there any compelling reason why it should be called poetry?” Philip Levine, U.S. poet laureate who wrote of working life, dies at 87 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z “Smoking freebase has pretty much been my job for the past year,” she writes of a particularly extreme period. Memoirs of Addiction and Ambition by Cat Marnell and Julia Phillips 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z “Looking at the Manitous on a winter walk is worth any self-help book save the Bible,” he once wrote of the offshore Manitou Islands in Lake Michigan. Searching for a Secret Ski Destination? Try Michigan 2017-12-11T05:00:00Z I wrote of him that as he nears 40, a man's body begins to die. What I'm thinking about ... men turning 40 2013-03-11T04:46:40Z In her memoirs, published in 2014, Loren wrote of Grant’s determined pursuit of her, despite the fact he was married to his third wife. Cary Grant never proposed to me on set, says Sophia Loren 2020-11-03T05:00:00Z Mark Swed wrote of it in The Los Angeles Times, “We now have something that can genuinely be called L.A. opera.” Music Review: ‘Don Giovanni,’ Los Angeles Philharmonic and Gustavo Dudamel 2012-05-27T22:36:40Z Much has been written of late about how Oprah is the last of her kind, a relic from an era when daytime television belonged to talk show hosts and that other dying breed, soap operas. There will never be another Oprah 2011-05-24T15:06:00Z Meg: What was the first writing of yours that was published? When Covid struck the Wolitzers, Meg and Hilma bonded by creating a book. Let them tell you about it. 2021-08-30T04:00:00Z One commenter wrote of being unable to "summon any empathy towards a family that hires a professional cook to take on holiday". Is Archipelago a class act or an empty gesture? 2011-03-14T12:05:29Z “I would’ve had an absolute heart attack if I seen this on the bus!!!” another wrote of the discovery. Escaped snake caught on bus terrifies passengers: 'Never getting on a bus again' 2019-04-28T04:00:00Z “My shoulders opened, my heart was bare, I could be in the world in ways that felt impossible before,” he writes of coming out as gay. Elliot Page, From Shame to Self-Acceptance, in Hollywood’s Glare 2023-06-06T04:00:00Z “What I knew about Skip would fit on a postcard,” she writes of their early days together. Into the Wild: Three books celebrate the joys of life in nature 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z “I have tried not to reveal crucial plot details,” she writes of her entertaining, fastidiously researched headnotes. A Late — and Maybe Last — Collection of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s ‘Lost’ Stories 2017-05-30T04:00:00Z Solnit writes of trying to both “appear and disappear” — acts, she confesses, that are “often odds with each other.” Review | Rebecca Solnit, who inspired the term ‘mansplaining,’ explains herself (sort of) 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z The Guardian wrote of “tears and roars of delight” for the new ensemble. An Orchestra Supports Ukraine, and Reunites a Couple Parted by War 2022-08-14T04:00:00Z Here’s how Thicke said he contributed to the writing of the song, from depositions obtained by The Hollywood Reporter: Robin Thicke Admits He Didn't Really Write "Blurred Lines," Was High in the Studio 2014-09-15T04:00:00Z Swimming Home is the book that caused me the most elation and the most despair, both in the writing of it and in its publishing journey. Booker shines spotlight on indie publishers 2012-09-19T00:00:23Z The letter mentioned a review I had written of Kelly’s latest album, “TP-2.com.” I had admired a lot of the music on the singer’s first five releases, albeit with reservations. R. Kelly and the Damage Done 2019-06-03T04:00:00Z He writes of how in the early days of the American colonies there was a “budding ‘Persophilia’ — a romantic idealization of Persian culture and Persian themes.” What Has Gone Wrong Between Iran and the United States? 2021-01-22T05:00:00Z I spent too many years of my life afraid to fly, and am attuned to the writing of others thus afflicted. Moments in Reading That Salvaged an Often Sour Year 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z The authors write of a dozen wild crows at Seattle's Woodland Park Zoo who followed a feeding ritual. 'Gifts of the Crow': New book by Seattle authors about brainy birds 2012-06-04T01:30:06Z The writing of “Frankenstein” is the stuff of literary legend. Hopelessly romantic: ‘Frankenstein’ at Book-It 2014-02-07T21:39:52Z In it, Mosher writes of another man, a man in many ways like Sunny, who lived in a mythical Vermont county: Sunny’s Place 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z The writing of “Laura” was a kind of accident, done for money. The Secrets of Vera Caspary, the Woman Who Wrote "Laura" 2015-09-21T04:00:00Z What interests you about the writing of each of these men? Jim Parsons and Zachary Quinto give voice to the prickly friendship of authors "Truman & Tennessee" 2021-06-19T04:00:00Z "She wrote of him at once with a desperate, clinging affection." The Woman in Black by Susan Hill 2012-02-10T22:55:08Z "I was riveted by the aura of menace," he writes of the sculpture, "though too uneasy to look for long." 'My Avant-Garde Education': Bernard Cooper's sketches of a life in art 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z For the content of most nativity scenes, we do not have the Bible to thank, but rather Saint Birgitta of Sweden, a 14th century nun who wrote of her visions. Dreaming of a dark Christmas: Decoding the seasonal iconography we take for granted 2016-12-25T05:00:00Z “He did not struggle with the regime. He simply did not notice it. He was not really aware of its existence,” Dovlatov wrote of Brodsky’s relationship, or lack thereof, to the Soviet state. A Russian Writer’s Lessons for Being a Nobody While Being Yourself 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z “Love your sense of humor,” one fan wrote of the bags. California mom sells hilarious 'passive-aggressive lunch bags' 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z Early in the book, Sandberg writes of several occasions not long after Goldberg’s death when she broke down, or nearly broke down, in tears during meetings, before hastily excusing herself from the room. Sheryl Sandberg’s “Option B” and Facebook’s Way to Grieve Book Review 2017-05-04T04:00:00Z In a letter, Picasso writes of his fellow painter, “Braque is wounded,” and asks for more information. Viewing World War I Through the Prism of the Personal 2014-06-19T04:00:00Z Mo writes of visceral pleasures and existential quandaries, creating vivid characters. A glance at the Nobel Prize for literature 2012-10-11T11:54:11Z One visitor wrote of the encounter: “We were so similar in sensibility it’s hard to believe the meeting wasn’t rigged.” At Woodrow Wilson Plaza, a Portal to connect with faraway strangers 2015-06-14T04:00:00Z She writes of someone, “His appearance was a little eccentric: a large specimen of a spider was stuck to his forehead.” Edan Lepucki’s ‘California,’ Alberto Moravia’s ‘Agostino,’ and More 2014-07-30T04:00:00Z As Rule later wrote of the incongruity, “Ted Bundy took lives, he also saved lives.” Too Close to Ted Bundy 2015-10-10T04:00:00Z Beyond the music, Hersch writes of his life as an HIV-positive man, fearful that he would not live to see 40. This great jazz pianist fell into a coma for months. He came back better than ever. 2017-11-01T04:00:00Z In “21st Century USA,” Hood writes of “men working hard for not enough, at best” and “women working just as hard for less.” Southern band takes on Trump as impeachment vote nears 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z She writes of her extreme shyness: “The sheer dread … that fills me when I am face-to-face with most humans … made me suffer atrociously during my life as an actress.” 'I know what it feels like to be hunted': Brigitte Bardot on life in the spotlight 2019-02-15T05:00:00Z Uncertainty is the right attitude to bring to the study and writing of history. Art Review: Vietnamese Voices Against a Whir of War 2010-08-12T21:59:00Z Clinton isn’t even the first president to participate in the writing of such a book, though this requires some sleuthing to uncover. The Mystery Buffs in the White House 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z Mr. Dunne once wrote of his wife that she “had the kind of class that people in those days called ‘good goods.’ ” The Gimlet Eye: Trading on Sentiment at Dominick Dunne?s Estate Sale 2010-11-25T05:00:00Z Now it becomes an even more urgent gesture toward flight: "I felt a deep desire to escape," he wrote of that period. A life in paintings 2011-03-20T00:08:06Z Greenberg wrote of a supposedly fierce battle for cultural dominance underway between high art and mass art. 'Out of Sight' gives L.A.'s '60s art scene the respect its due 2015-04-07T04:00:00Z There are lots of surprises: In the 25th reunion book Ellen Ward Cooney wrote of her divorce, and in the 35th she has remarried her now former ex-husband. After Harvard, Dispatches of Adulthood 2012-04-13T22:21:53Z They also still inform the writing of history. Macaulay and Son: Archtects of Imperial Britain by Catherine Hall - review 2012-12-21T22:55:02Z Keats wrote of his Grecian urn: "Thou foster-child of Silence and slow Time". Let each of us write our own history in 100 objects 2010-12-26T19:00:00Z “I got nothing but astonished respect,” another user wrote of her “blood red” number. Nancy Pelosi's 'blood red' coat sparks a frenzy 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z “In the final analysis, the singing seemed virtually irrelevant,” Los Angeles Times critic Martin Bernheimer wrote of the 1994 Dodger Stadium concert, presented on a set with fake classical columns and waterfalls. Tibor Rudas, music impresario who furthered Pavarotti’s career, dies at 94 “Miss Bow’s voice is better than the narrative,” Hall wrote of “The Wild Party” in 1929. ‘Babylon’: A Guide to the Characters and Their Real-Life Counterparts 2022-12-23T05:00:00Z In the poem "Song of Myself," Walt Whitman wrote of a writer's need to embrace apparently irreconcilable points of view: "Do I contradict myself?" wrote Whitman. Once a Hanford engineer, now Washington's poet laureate 2012-04-02T02:01:16Z There’s a strong tradition in mystery writing of living writers continuing the work of dead ones. Review | Ian Rankin took on the challenge of finishing his mentor’s book. The result is a darkly beautiful novel. 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z Kesha had teased her return to the studio on social media, writing of Zedd, “It’s a miracle when someone gives you a chance at finding your voice again!!” Kesha Will Release a Song, With Dr. Luke’s Approval 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z “They said they were driven by principle,” Mayer writes of the Koch-led network, “but their positions dovetailed seamlessly with their personal financial interests.” ‘Dark Money,’ by Jane Mayer 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z She jumps into the writing of her story and gets her hands dirty, her heart broken, her spirit bruised. Abused, Addicted, Biracial and Queer: Jaquira Díaz Is Anything but ‘Ordinary’ 2019-10-29T04:00:00Z “I’ve lived through it and way too many others have as well,” Twitter user Concertange wrote of the issues raised by the trend. #MeToo: Sexual harassment stories sweep social media after Weinstein allegations 2017-10-16T04:00:00Z "When I read my first novel now – Jesus, it's like the writing of a PhD student," Rankin said. Ian Rankin embarrassed by 'purple prose' of first book 2010-08-16T10:39:00Z We like the idea of Stubborn Heart living in their "London griefhole", as someone wrote of them, seeking solace in electro noise and moaning sadly as the killing sonics slowly engulf them. New band of the day – No 1,315: Stubborn Heart 2012-07-24T15:59:00Z “Mad Ireland hurt you into poetry,” W. H. Auden wrote of Yeats. Natasha Trethewey: By the Book 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z “He throws an inordinate number of pitches and works with such intensity and combative fire that you sense that anything less might bring on disaster,” Angell wrote of Cone. More Than 25 Years After “Private Parts,” Howard Stern Has Another No. 1 Best Seller 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z But it’s never Béjart Ms. Farrell means when she speaks of “Mr. B.” — or writes of him. The Week of the Woman 2015-10-27T04:00:00Z "It is my job to be invisible," Thorpe writes of parenting young children, describing them as "a hinge that only bends one way." Is the real monster in “Pieces of Her” the mother-artist? 2022-03-11T05:00:00Z “Nature is built on a stupendous plan in that region,” Mark Twain once wrote of the valley leading into Zermatt. 36 Hours in Zermatt 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z Mr. Carpenter was deeply involved in the writing of “Understanding Media,” the book that made McLuhan an intellectual celebrity. Edmund Carpenter, Archaelogist and Anthropologist, Dies at 88 2011-07-07T23:15:41Z Considerable challenges attend the writing of a book about a developing field of science. A Biography of the Woman Who Will Re-Engineer Humans 2021-03-08T05:00:00Z For his part, Smola combed through articles and texts where writers responded to the faculty paintings, seeking an objective sense of color in the subjective writing of criticism. Artificial intelligence is restoring lost works by Klimt, Picasso and Rembrandt. Not everyone is happy about it. 2021-12-28T05:00:00Z “There was a price to be paid for a culture that idealizes the relentless pursuit of ‘self,’ ” he writes of the world of his youth. The Unreality of Being a Celebrity 2011-05-16T11:00:17Z “No wonder he hated me,” Welles wrote of the film director D. W. Griffith, according to Mr. Hallman. Archivists Find Fragments of an Unfinished Orson Welles Autobiography 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z As Ernaux writes of herself: “She is all desire and pride. And: She is waiting to fall madly in love.” Buying Dora Maar’s Diary on eBay and Other Classy Tales From France 2020-04-24T04:00:00Z Jones writes of his mother and her heart condition, and of physical assault, economic hardship, and the floating threat of violence that men like him face. Saeed Jones’s Striking Memoir About Race, Sex, and Self-Invention 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z He also evaluates their user-friendliness: “Mangling with these boards would pain the hands that pressed down upon them,” he writes of ornately carved German ones from the 1630s. The Arcane Charms of Mangle Boards 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z The author wrote of living “like a machine that talked, a yoked human.” A Dissident Book Smuggled From North Korea Finds a Global Audience 2017-03-19T04:00:00Z In 1981, the author Dotson Rader, Williams’s friend, wrote of one incident in which he and Williams were singing to a group on the street when a man flashed a knife. Tennessee Williams Made Paintings. They Were About Love and Loss, Too. 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z In one of the letters to his mother, Regan writes of “a void inside me … a vessel that is sinking slowly”. The big picture: 'Without photography, I wouldn't be here' 2019-07-20T04:00:00Z “There is a ballet that is like an ocean,” she writes of Balanchine’s “Serenade.” Books of The Times: Jenifer Ringer and Misty Copeland Have New Memoirs 2014-03-16T21:00:25Z In a speech reproduced in that collection, Ms. Brown wrote of her lifelong impulse to retell and illustrate traditional stories. Marcia Brown, 96, Dies; Book Illustrator Won Three Caldecott Medals 2015-05-06T04:00:00Z "It was that combination of naivete and deception — as Nabokov might have said — that made the band so compelling," Mehr writes of the band's early stages. The Replacements' story is told bottle by bottle, song by song, in the new book 'Trouble Boys' 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z Others wrote of LED lanterns being destroyed and sunglasses and other property going missing. In Transit: Readers Share Thoughts on the T.S.A. 2010-12-11T16:58:00Z Trevor-Roper was easily distracted by such things and by the writing of introductions to others’ books. Books of The Times: Adam Sisman?s ?Honourable Englishman,? on Hugh Trevor-Roper 2011-12-06T21:46:10Z Are there any characters who you thought would play a bigger role in the book, but who you found yourself moving away from in the writing of it? ArtsBeat: Thomas Mallon on the Fact and Fiction of 'Watergate' 2012-02-22T16:00:18Z In this month’s Motherlode Book Club selection, “No Biking in the House Without a Helmet,” Melissa Fay Greene writes of building a family. Motherlode Blog: Revisiting a Childhood Home 2011-08-12T18:11:30Z “I’m a good listener, and I’m not quick to judge,” he writes of spending time with the veteran professionals, local residents and drifters in the last days of the Bakken oil boom. From an Artist’s Life in Brooklyn to North Dakota’s Oil Fields 2021-02-12T05:00:00Z “Whether Mr. Freire is shy or merely introspective, it is impossible to say,” Allen Hughes of The New York Times wrote of the pianist’s New York recital debut in 1971. Nelson Freire, Piano Virtuoso of Warmth and Finesse, Dies at 77 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z On another occasion, Haydon writes of his painting, “I leave off weary and commence in disgust!” Michael Dirda reviews ‘The Immortal Evening’ by Stanley Plumly Shelley has steadily refined that style — a braid of folk immediacy and poetic insight, much like the writing of fellow Kentuckian Wendell Berry — for a dozen years. Joan Shelley’s New Songs Soothe Old Wounds 2022-06-20T04:00:00Z Sunday’s episode opens with an argument erupting between Boseman and Julius about a potential case involving a TV writer who published online an entire episode he had written of a popular procedural. ‘The Good Fight’ Season 1, Episode 5 Recap: Office Warfare 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z In the book's epilogue, Caxton said "In the writing of the same my pen is worn, mine hand weary and not steadfast, mine eyes dimmed with overmuch looking on the white paper". First book printed in English sells 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z Ms. Johnston wrote of being impressed “by the incredible assortment of bodies, the any old bodies of our any old lives.” Dance Review: Steve Paxton’s ‘Satisfyin’ Lover’ and ‘State,’ at MoMA 2012-10-18T21:53:51Z He also writes of how a publisher had rejected “Italian Neighbours,” saying that readers wouldn’t like it because it “doesn’t reinforce their stereotypes of the country, whether positive or negative.” In ‘Italian Ways,’ Tim Parks Again Tries to Explain Italy 2013-06-07T21:25:53Z In Alone Together I write of "necessary conversations" that lie ahead. Author, author: Sherry Turkle 2011-01-29T00:05:59Z "I'd just made a complete fool of myself and given my family the middle finger," Palin writes of hearing the news. Bristol Palin calls her ex 'the gnat' in new book 2011-06-18T01:52:08Z “I see an antique television with an underwater seascape,” one user writes of a photo showing a cart holding a tangle of electrical wiring. Office Romance 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z TUE A comedy about the writing of Shakespeare's "Macbeth," 8 p.m. Community calendar 2012-03-07T21:12:07Z But there’s a “narrative stealth” at work that A. O. Scott wrote of in his review for The New York Times. What’s on TV: ‘Sick Note’ and ‘Vice’ 2018-11-23T05:00:00Z Philip Gould, English professor at Brown University, discusses the oratory and writing of Frederick Douglass. What to watch this weekend: ‘Homeland’ returns on Showtime 2020-02-07T05:00:00Z He wrote of the “primitivism” and “barbarism” of African societies. V.S. Naipaul, a Writer of Many Contradictions and Obvious Greatness 2018-08-12T04:00:00Z He also provided regular feedback during the writing of the screenplay and the shooting and editing of the movie. Filmmaker J. J. Abrams Is a Crowd Teaser 2011-05-29T01:23:02Z More importantly, she writes of the dream to be whole once again. Review | Ntozake Shange, author of ‘for colored girls,’ returns with powerful new poems 2018-01-01T05:00:00Z Jewel described one especially harrowing episode in her memoir, when Atz struck her and her brother: “He kept yelling, spittle flying in my face,” she wrote of her father. ’90s folk superstar Jewel is happy — finally. Now she wants to know: Are you? 2018-01-17T05:00:00Z In it, she writes of sharing a taxi cab with a coworker, who announces that he’s engaged, then confesses to her: How these 5 little words can jump-start an illicit sexual affair 2016-01-08T05:00:00Z Her first play, Blood and Ice, about Mary Shelley and the writing of Frankenstein, is a brilliant, almost feverishly poetic and dramatic exploration of the feminist impulse and its limits. Scotland has the makings of a great makar in Liz Lochhead 2011-01-19T17:16:41Z Montaigne took a different tack: he wrote of grief by writing it off. Too much grief 2011-08-19T21:55:11Z She cared for him and three kids over two decades and supported him in his high-flying career, including the writing of his book "A Brief History of Time" for non-scientists to understand the universe. 'Theory of Everything,' a film study of Stephen Hawking's universe 2014-09-08T04:00:00Z “She possessed intelligence,” Elena writes of Lila, “and didn’t put it to use but, rather, wasted it, like a great lady for whom all the riches of the world are merely a sign of vulgarity.” ‘The Story of the Lost Child,’ by Elena Ferrante 2015-08-26T04:00:00Z Rhodes writes of the urgent need to transition from a fossil-fuel-dominated energy mix to a more sustainable one, but doesn’t discuss the progress — real if still nascent — already made in that direction. A History of the Energy We Have Consumed 2018-06-18T04:00:00Z But as the writing of “The Telling Room” dragged on, Mr. Paterniti’s wife seemed to have expressed some skepticism. Books of The Times: Michael Paterniti’s ‘Telling Room,’ Set in Rural Spain 2013-07-22T20:29:40Z “I read, ate too much, asked the stewardess for more chocolate,” Self writes of his flight to the United Arab Emirates in “Walking to The World.” 2010-01-01T00:14:00Z More constructively, he was developing an instrumentalist approach to art and images that he could apply to his writing of narrative prose. Henry James, a Poohbah Who Painted With Words 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z “I noticed we had become legends quite a while ago,” he writes of the Pythons. Nudge Nudge: New Books by Eric Idle and John Cleese 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z Did you blink away from the darkness in your writing of “The Houseguest?” “Obviously, we all die”: On rejecting the cult of positivity and embracing the joy of darkness 2016-04-19T04:00:00Z By the time Weschler writes of Sacks’s death, I found myself tearing up at the loss of this inspired creature. A Biography of Oliver Sacks, Written by His Boswell 2019-08-20T04:00:00Z One day after I wrote of the downside of replacing David Letterman with Stephen Colbert, CBS went ahead and did exactly that. ArtsBeat: Next Guessing Game: Who Will Replace Colbert? 2014-04-10T18:45:14Z It is a linear, at times almost traditionally symphonic work, with motifs and episodes exchanged and even occasionally developed in writing of considerable discipline. LSO/Harding – review 2013-02-08T12:46:35Z In an e-mail message, Ms. Wintour wrote of Ms. Gilhart: “She has always been a fearless yet kind advocate for young designers in this country and beyond.” Julie Gilhart: Bouncing Back With a Digital Twist 2013-09-04T21:41:47Z "It seemed to me the notes were almost perfect," he wrote of the van Royen flat. John Pawson: Plain Space 2010-09-18T23:05:00Z “He writes of their long-term bonds, their massive nests, ‘as stout as an old warship,’ to which they return year after year, and of their eclectic appetites. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2022-03-31T04:00:00Z “As much bumbling clown as muscular force to be reckoned with, by turns endearing and commanding,” Dominic Cavendish wrote of “Misty” in The Daily Telegraph after it transferred to the West End. Four Rising Theater Stars to Watch This Spring 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z But the writing of Redeployment felt vital to me in a different way. Phil Klay on His Iraq War Book 'Redeployment' 2015-03-04T05:00:00Z “They were unknown then, now they are unknowable,” Ms Flynn writes of those who died. Ancestral voices 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z She writes of the violent westward expansion of the country in the 19th century and genocide of Native people. Seattle’s Ijeoma Oluo calls out the elephant in the room in ‘Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America’ 2020-11-27T05:00:00Z The writing of a memoir — especially one subtitled "A True Love Story" — presents an inherent challenge: the author's self-revelation risks devolving into rank confession and undermining the larger truths of the story. 'Burmese Lessons: A True Love Story': an intimate witness to rebellion in Burma 2010-06-02T22:41:00Z Yet, as Manohla Dargis wrote of Mr. Baker’s work in The Times, “the most astonishing thing about this perfectly cast, beautifully directed movie is the tenderness with which he foregrounds marginalized characters.” Breakthrough Performances of the Summer Movies Season 2015-05-01T04:00:00Z Even the eternally alienated Joan Didion wrote of buying two straw hats, four bottles of nail enamel and “a toaster, on sale at Sears,” at the Ala Moana Center in Honolulu. An Ode to Shopping Malls 2017-07-26T04:00:00Z “To cut all the jars,” she wrote of Site 1, “it took laborers, numerous laborers, disciplined, well led, perhaps over centuries.” Footsteps: In Laos, the Lady and the Jars 2012-07-13T16:23:26Z Motion regarded the writing of Larkin's biography as "one of the most important things I'll ever be asked to do in my life", and he still feels the same way about it now. The real Larkin 2010-06-26T23:04:00Z On the show’s fan pages, some viewers wrote of their disgust or cried conspiracy theory. After ‘Interns’ Star Came Out in Russia, a Mix of Fury and Shrugs 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z The people who work in my home were there at different times during the writing of the book. Shonda Rhimes: "All I ever write about is being alone" 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z He wrote of picturesque villages tucked into woodlands, and fishermen gathered on the shores, trading stories of the Seven Years’ or Napoleonic wars. Nature's son: on the trail of Theodor Fontane, the German Charles Dickens 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z Local newspapers along my routes wrote of electoral candidates who hadn't bothered attending community debates, of foreclosures and soup kitchens, unprecedented demands for assistance, homelessness. A happy ending to my American tour 2010-10-19T09:57:00Z In “I Wear the Black Hat,” Klosterman writes of Machiavelli’s signature work that “ ‘The Prince’ can be read like a self-help book for someone who openly aspires to be depraved.” ‘I Wear the Black Hat’: the essential anatomy of a villain 2013-08-28T22:25:51Z And the more my story than the original, my testimony than the original writing of it. God is key to Gloria Gaynor’s survival, in life and music 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z She writes of the inability of men of her generation to cope with housekeeping after the death of a spouse, and notes how death cleaning has traditionally been women’s work. Hygge Gets Heave-Ho as Swedes, Norwegians Join the Fun 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z “He is not merely a confident storyteller,” our critic Dwight Garner wrote of Adiga, “but also a thinker, a skeptic, a wily entertainer, a thorn in the side of orthodoxy and cant.” 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z He writes of 'sparkling' eyes, 'shining' eyes, 'laughing' eyes, 'twinkling' eyes, eyes 'like ice'. The invention of Obama 2010-04-23T23:06:00Z The biographer writes of what happened soon thereafter: The Odd Factual Gaps in Michael Grandage’s “Genius” 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z However, in the concluding paragraph, Wolcott writes of the unrelenting media attention paid to the various subsidiary Trumps and Kardashians, “Please, stop.... Why keep feeding their ravenous egos?” Letters to the Editor 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z People are going into prisons and care units and facilitating the writing of poetry. 'All the hood rats would jam with us': Grandmaster Flash, AJ Tracey and other artists on the generation gap 2019-10-19T04:00:00Z “He does not carry his liquor well, and there is a lot to carry,” Ms. Hohoff wrote of one colleague. The Invisible Hand Behind Harper Lee’s ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ 2015-07-12T04:00:00Z The Encores! version doesn’t quite solve the conundrum of characters who, as Sondheim wrote of the original, “were, if not exactly three-dimensional, at least two-and-a-half.” A Sondheim Musical Rolls Back to Life 2012-02-15T16:40:10Z "These days are perfect," Mantel writes of the summer the king courts Jane. 'Bring Up the Bodies' a wonderful, terrible sequel to 'Wolf Hall' 2012-05-04T03:31:52Z He writes of public access to great houses with the disdain of a Waugh or Wodehouse. Why Alan Bennett is wrong about the National Trust 2012-11-21T19:00:01Z Jesse Green wrote of last year’s production in Massachusetts that it does the good work “we are always asking new musicals to do: the work of singing about real things.” 11 Plays and Musicals to Go to in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z Arin writes of the challenges he faced as a girl, getting kicked out of private school and dating a young transgender woman. Books for parents, kids, teens on LGBTQ experience 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z She worked through the impasse by revisiting the writing of Anthony Bourdain, whose bracing words energized her. A Writer Describes Palestinian Cuisine, and the World Around It 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z By high school, they were very vain: Blake writes of being acutely aware of the years when Scott was the more authoritative and handsome of the two. Books Of the Times: ‘The Splendid Things We Planned,’ Blake Bailey’s Memoir 2014-02-23T22:48:06Z In one chapter Mr. Toibin compares the writing of James Baldwin and Barack Obama, men who grew up without fathers and learned to, he says, “make it up as they went along.” Books of The Times: Colm Toibin’s ‘New Ways to Kill Your Mother’ Looks at Writers 2012-06-11T20:19:38Z Yeats wrote of the ache of her rejection: Climbing the summits of Irish literature Mr. Kikuchi, a psychiatric social worker, wrote of his experiences in a memoir, “The Kikuchi Diary: Chronicle From an American Concentration Camp.” Susan Kikuchi, 74, Dies; Staged Martha Graham Dances and ‘King and I’ 2022-11-28T05:00:00Z Turning my head in his direction I froze in shock at the sight of Ray brandishing his manhood before me,’” she writes of the incident. #MeToo and the B-list: "Nobody cares because their assailants were not famous" 2019-05-10T04:00:00Z Horace Greeley, who embodied that time almost as well as King Strang, wrote of living in “this stammering century.” Meet the Man Who Spun the Media, Scammed Followers and Named Himself King 2020-07-14T04:00:00Z “Black had become beautiful,” she writes of the immediate aftermath, referring to the influx of money and community involvement represented by the Watts Writers Workshop among other groups. The literature of Watts 2015-08-11T04:00:00Z As productive as he was profligate, with nearly 200 novels and as many short stories, Simenon often wrote of men and women drawn into affairs that end in pain or violence. Sex and Death at Cannes 2014-05-18T04:00:00Z "She was a magazine of feelings, & they were of all kinds & of all shades of force," Twain wrote of Susy in the sketch shortly after her death in 1896. Mark Twain tribute fetches $242,000 at NYC auction 2010-06-17T21:49:00Z The novelist Russell Banks wrote of Kingsolver's "Chekhovian tenderness towards her characters" and of her humour as "contemporary American – fast, hip and a little outrageous". A life in writing: Barbara Kingsolver 2010-06-11T23:05:00Z Beulah’s story adds a grimness to the novel as Stewart writes of how Beulah was abused by men since childhood and then dragged through the mud by the media for years. Review | Three plucky sisters refuse to accept their place in the world in Amy Stewart’s new novel 2019-09-13T04:00:00Z In “Terminal Resemblance,” the speaker writes of her reticent father becoming voluble at the end: “when a man’s dying, / he has a subject.” Louise Glück’s Stark New Book Affirms Her Icy Precision 2021-10-26T04:00:00Z By Chapter 2, Silva’s written of a bloody murder and a delicate restoration project in a Venetian church. Daniel Silva is the best-selling author of the Gabriel Allon series. Meet his secret adviser 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z In writing of any kind, the most important qualities are precision, boldness, imagination and flair in the use of language. Richard Lloyd Parry: By the Book 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z Mike Davis, an urban theorist and historian who in stark, sometimes prescient books wrote of catastrophes faced by and awaiting humankind, and especially Los Angeles, died on Tuesday at his home in San Diego. Mike Davis, Who Wrote of Los Angeles and Catastrophe, Dies at 76 2022-10-26T04:00:00Z She made them come alive in a way that made them more than that, and so I tried to channel her spirits a bit in the writing of the stories. "A similar genesis": The Cure's Lol Tolhurst honors goth and its (spider)web of artistic connections 2023-10-28T04:00:00Z “The day was splendid for it,” she wrote of the session in her journal. Love Those Royal Family Photos? It All Started With Victoria. 2014-04-18T21:56:07Z He had been maintaining a blog for years about his sexual exploits, writing of his cleverness at maintaining the façade of dedicated husband and father while prowling for men on the side. My husband’s secret gay life 2012-12-10T02:00:00Z How do you divide the writing of the season? Game of Thrones Creators: ‘We Know What Happens in Each Scene’ of Season 8 2017-07-11T04:00:00Z “Dazzling, different surfaces, tissues, textures,” she wrote of an early work, in language that could describe her style over 40 years. Kaija Saariaho: 11 Essential Works 2023-06-02T04:00:00Z Higgins writes of "the capacity of the sleeping earth to throw up anomalies", and nowhere is this anomalousness more visible than in Roman Britain. Under Another Sky: Journeys in Roman Britain, by Charlotte Higgins – review 2013-07-24T10:06:01Z “With his diminutive stature, knobby features and avuncular paunch, he looked more like the neighborhood butcher than, say, the dashing Duke of Mantua,” The Washington Post wrote of Mr. Bergonzi in 2004. Carlo Bergonzi, Masterful Operatic Tenor, Dies at 90 2014-07-26T04:00:00Z The way Percy writes of the incident, it doesn’t fundamentally alter the trajectory of Ryan’s life, mind you. Which boy's life? Esquire's "American Boy," race, and masculinity at 17 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z The problem arose particularly in the writing of the chapter about Gary Lambert, who bore a certain superficial resemblance to my oldest brother. Jonathan Franzen: the path to Freedom 2012-05-25T21:55:12Z When Paul asks her if he might tape their conversation, Hollinghurst writes of the recorder's "odd insinuations of flattery and mistrust". Alan Hollinghurst: 'The Booker can drive people mad' 2012-05-19T23:05:49Z Hitchens wrote of himself as keeping "two sets of books", and this applies above all in his writing. The Orwell prize gets Hitched 2012-05-28T09:34:25Z Did personal experience influence the writing of your lead character in “The Whale”? A Word With: Jami Attenberg and Samuel D. Hunter: Obesity, With Jami Attenberg and Samuel D. Hunter 2012-12-12T22:15:59Z There are passages of touching vulnerability and tenderness, as when she writes of a cancer scare in the mid-1980s, of her own mother’s death in 1986 and her brother’s, 10 years later. In ‘Rachel, Monique,’ Sophie Calle Eulogizes Her Mother 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z Alasdair Gray wrote of English people working in the Scottish arts as being 'settlers' or 'colonists'. Scotland should not be wasting time on blaming the English any more 2012-12-21T19:00:00Z In her preface, she writes of the “happiness” she enjoyed while working on the book and the “pleasure” she hopes its readers will experience. The Bookish Pleasures of a Henry James Yearbook 2016-12-23T05:00:00Z Although his books have enjoyed gratifying commercial success, Sacks writes of an often frustrating lack of attention from the medical world. Oliver Sacks' 'On the Move' a memoir of an extraordinary life 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z The most persuasive passages in Bob Honey are those in which Penn writes of his character’s insomnia. Sean Penn: ‘Some of my best laughs have come out of the worst reviews’ 2018-05-05T04:00:00Z While her husband lies swollen beyond recognition in the intensive-care unit, Ms. Haskell writes of thinking in the generous, forgiving ways we wish we did all the time. Modern Love: Embracing Marriage, Flaws and All 2012-01-26T21:45:54Z “The theater was dingy beyond description, the band reduced to a drummer and a pianist and the midweek audience painfully spare,” The Los Angeles Times wrote of that 1966 performance. Betty Rowland, One of Burlesque's Last Queens, Dies at 106 2022-06-29T04:00:00Z In one text, Carlson wrote of Trump, “I hate him passionately.” Late Night Can’t Believe Tucker Carlson’s Texts About Trump 2023-03-09T05:00:00Z Early on in the writing of these stories, I decided that I wanted to write Swedish characters rather than American characters in Sweden. This Week in Fiction: Jensen Beach 2015-08-24T04:00:00Z He writes of striving to establish friendly relationships with the other inmates on his floor and shows them generosity by offering them provisions from his outsized commissary. The Screwball Poetry of Lil Wayne’s Prison Diary 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z “It is so beautiful outside of color, color, color and sun,” he wrote of Domburg in a 1908 letter to a friend. Overnighter: Where Mondrian Lingers on a Dutch Coast 2012-08-22T19:00:20Z In his 2000 New Yorker essay “Arbitrage,” Mr. Aciman writes of the fluctuating emotional value of a home, how it alters when you are away from it, caught up in another kind of life. ‘Change Your Life,’ the Poet Says, and a Rural Idyll Offers a Tantalizing Choice 2018-12-09T05:00:00Z “In the years that followed, he behaved in ways that continually shocked me despite their near constancy,” Nicole writes of her brainy husband. Is Nicole Krauss’s new novel an act of literary revenge? 2017-09-11T04:00:00Z "Besides that, if we know what books were in his library in the years leading to the writing of the Declaration of Independence, it tells us something about what might have inspired his intellect." Book lovers fear dim future for notes in the margins 2011-02-22T04:17:03Z “For a tenner, they were up for anything,” he writes of the £10 Season audience, 30 percent of which had never been to the National before. Review | One of theater’s most accomplished directors reveals a life among the stars 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z In letters home, Hopper wrote of lively streets “thick” with crowds. Perspective | In Hopper’s early Paris paintings, reflections of today’s strange, desolate cities 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z Seeger was smitten just as much with Champagne, writing of a night when he and other soldiers "in our candle-lit loft we uncorked bottles of bubbling champagne ... and clinking our tin army cups." 100 years later: Alan Seeger's global commitment lingers 2016-07-03T04:00:00Z In the original story, Burke writes of one of the trespassers, “He smiled while he talked, but his eyes did not go with his face.” ‘God’s Country’ Review: A Solitary Woman Isn’t Left Alone for Long 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z The Boston Herald wrote of his Beantown show that "by stripping the songs down, he opened up their soul." Your best arts and entertainment bets for the week ahead 2011-04-27T22:16:04Z “The rule of thumb for something like this is simple: It’s not just about those you invite, it’s about those you don’t invite,” Mr. Carter wrote of his party in 2005. The Oscars, New York-Style 2011-02-27T06:02:00Z Melissa Rosenberg, the creator and show runner of the “Jessica Jones” TV series, said that she saw similarities in how Ms. Ritter approached her acting work and the writing of “Bonfire.” Krysten Ritter Spins Her Own Mystery in Her Debut Novel, ‘Bonfire’ 2017-11-12T05:00:00Z These panels are our only models for the writing of poetry. Technology and the novel, from Blake to Ballard 2010-07-23T23:06:00Z “They’re still answering the call,” Swanson writes of the modern-day Rangers. The True Story of the Texas Rangers 2020-06-09T04:00:00Z Shortly before, Alex Ross had written of the “Ring” in The New Yorker: “Pound for pound, ton for ton, it is the most witless and wasteful production in modern operatic history.” Critic?s Notebook: Peter Gelb on Wagner?s ?Ring? Cycle at Met Opera 2012-04-03T18:45:55Z It reminds me of George Orwell's observation about the writing of Rudyard Kipling. Motherlode Blog: I Can't Get 'The Little Engine That Could' Out of My Head 2012-10-01T17:01:49Z Her two daughters from her marriage to Fahnestock are in their 40s, are mothers themselves and have supported her decision to write of her experience, she said. JFK intern recounts long-ago affair in new book 2012-02-13T08:02:09Z Mitter's book is enlivened by extracts from the writing of Chinese people who endured the war and also from many interesting foreigners who reported from wartime China. China's War With Japan by Rana Mitter – review 2013-06-30T13:00:01Z “She brings supreme comic obtuseness to Meg, the pathetic proprietor of a shabby seaside boarding house,” Frank Rich of The New York Times wrote of Ms. Stapleton’s performance in “The Birthday Party.” Jean Stapleton, Who Played Archie’s Better Angel, Dies at 90 2013-06-01T21:08:35Z The emerging film is not simply a persuasive augmentation of Katz’s argument, but also a disturbing portrait of how very human impulses — passivity, rationalization, social pressures — can shape the writing of history. ‘Tantura’ Review: Unearthing the Past 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z Williams, a veteran of the Iraq war, writes of the romance and difficulties in her marriage to another veteran, Brian McGough, who suffers from a brain injury and PTSD. 25 essential books for Memorial Day 2014-05-26T04:00:00Z “It’s not brave or funny enough, like a step backwards from Little Britain, 10 years after Little Britain,” the Guardian’s Sam Wollaston wrote of the show. This week's best TV: Good Girls Revolt, The Great Indoors and Charlie Brown 2016-10-24T04:00:00Z Holed up in Los Angeles, he developed his interest in the occult – the Kabbalah, the writing of the English satanist Aleister Crowley – and his fascination with various esoteric writings by obscure Nazi pseudo-philosophers. Who is David Bowie? A guide to the V&A retrospective 2013-02-16T19:59:00Z Reviewing it for The New York Times, Charles Isherwood wrote of Mr. Leguizamo, “His pliant, expressive face and rubbery limbs are in virtually nonstop motion for two acts and almost two and a half hours.” James Brown and Al Pacino, Salsa Added 2011-04-10T00:51:52Z The writing of a biography — a fraught and invasive endeavor — is especially complicated when the subject is not only still living but continues to wield influence. Jann Wenner and His Biographer Have a Falling Out 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z Plath writes of "snares," "Zeroes, shutting on nothing," and "wires." How Sylvia Plath’s secret miscarriage transforms our understanding of her poetry 2022-03-08T05:00:00Z “The Savior of the Nation went begging in style,” she writes of Tuvy. NoViolet Bulawayo Allegorizes the Aftermath of Robert Mugabe 2022-03-06T05:00:00Z “Its nine black contributors have launched their literary ship with vigor,” Newsweek magazine wrote of the first issue. Charles F. Harris, 81, Dies; Led Effort to Publish Work by Black Writers 2015-12-22T05:00:00Z “There’s a reason why you finally arrived at diving as your competitive sport,” Ms. Vida writes of the narrator’s high school years. Review: Vendela Vida’s ‘The Diver’s Clothes Lie Empty’ Offers Freedom to Escape 2015-06-16T04:00:00Z “It’s the idiosyncratic story of an idiosyncratic Los Angeles family that shows how idiosyncrasy has become a formula itself,” James Poniewozik wrote of this Golden Globe-nominated comedy last season in The New York Times. What’s on TV Tuesday 2016-06-07T04:00:00Z "When he died during the writing of this book — and then I very nearly died myself — the thriller I was working on grew into something far more ambitious and profound." Greg Iles to write more Penn Cage thrillers 2013-06-11T16:10:37Z "He only looked at me in bewilderment and without understanding," Reich wrote of the unreciprocated comradeship. Sex-Pol: Essays, 1929-1934 by Wilhelm Reich – review 2013-05-01T07:00:02Z Employees “were constantly on the lookout for jobs that paid better and abused them less,” Morris writes of the demoralized work force. An Inventor’s Life That Was Incandescent Any Way You Look at It 2019-10-22T04:00:00Z He wrote of “towering walls of verdure” and “gleaming cataracts of vines,” of birds of “splendid plumage” and “rollicking monkeys.” | Latin America Issue: Twain?s Nicaragua, 144 Years Later 2010-09-17T16:03:00Z “Someone seriously in their underwear… anything for likes,” one person wrote of Rocheva, who is pictured stripping off a hazmat suit to reveal a bra and thong underneath. Model criticized for skimpy Chernobyl-themed photo apologizes, says she wasn't even there 2019-06-14T04:00:00Z He would later write of his nervous excitement at threading his way into their gathering, past the reigning enfant terrible Robert Mapplethorpe, and spying his own artwork there. Art Basel Miami, Where Big Money Meets Bigger Money 2019-11-29T05:00:00Z In a brochure essay Mr. Zuniga writes of the sobering impression his own mother’s death has made on his view of mortality, though he manages to make the self-revelation sound like a smart one-liner. Critic?s Notebook: SoHo, Steadfast Bastion for Alternative Works 2011-04-22T03:29:51Z In his memoir, he wrote of his "impotent discontent" at the state of the teaching of English in Cambridge. Sir Frank Kermode obituary 2010-08-18T13:20:00Z “We didn’t get along well, and that’s a fact,” he wrote of their relationship’s early stages. Inside Gene Wilder and Gilda Radner's Romance 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z “Their windows, empty of glass, were full of sky,” he wrote of the derelict houses he found. Jonathan Raban, Adventurous Literary Traveler, Dies at 80 2023-01-18T05:00:00Z There is rather less to be found on the thought and writing of the major natural philosophers of the period. Three New Books on the Predigital Technologies That Shaped Our World 2021-01-05T05:00:00Z “At one point,” Ms. Goldberg said, “she writes of her fear of being linked with radical feminists, ‘angry women whose resentment was turning the sterling silver concept of equal rights into corrosive man-hating sexual warfare.’ Gail Sheehy, Journalist, Author and Social Observer, Dies at 83 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z “When famine balled its fist, it struck with great force,” she writes of one boyfriend’s misfortunes. She Survived a Tough Childhood. Then She Met Jeffrey Epstein. 2021-12-06T05:00:00Z “The weight of this felt unbearable,” Josh Stepakoff writes of his life since being shot at age 6 at his California day camp 20 years ago. Review | School shooting survivors speak out in a new book. Their pain is terrible — and vital — to hear. 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z “The highly addictive nature of their products,” he writes of drugmakers at the turn of the 20th century, “coupled with no government oversight and regulation, was good for sales.” How Big Pharma Grew Addicted to Big Profits 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z Jim once wrote of a character, “He’s literally taking bites out of the sun, moon, and earth,” which is what he himself spent a lifetime doing. Inhaling Life with Jim Harrison 2017-03-18T04:00:00Z Mr. Kelly writes of how the commercial value of oil sketches and drawings rose as they began to be seen as “the most direct and spontaneous emanation of the artist’s personality.” Théodore Rousseau Retrospective at the Morgan 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z Counting the ‘Blessings’ of Insomnia Obama’s Primary Test The Stone features the writing of contemporary philosophers on issues both timely and timeless. Sitting With Marina 2010-05-23T21:05:00Z “Mary and Claire get revenge,” Angelica Jade Bastién writes of Saturday’s episode of “Outlander,” “but the show doesn’t fully wrestle with what this means for either of them going forward.” What You Should Watch This Week: ‘Greenleaf’ and ‘Thirteen’ 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z Mr. Barich wrote of “handicapping overkill, the brain weaving useless webs.” ArtsBeat: The Small and Pleasurable World at the Track 2013-05-03T14:00:48Z “There were times when just the writing of it was enough.” Charlotte Rogan, Author of ?The Lifeboat? 2012-04-03T22:17:12Z “Most of them were young,” the Star’s correspondent wrote of the entrants, “and all of them were not ugly.” For one wild era, walking was the nation’s No. 1 spectator sport 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z “Their ordinariness,” Stepanova writes of her family, “put them beyond the usual human interest and this seemed unfair.” A Writer Shakes Her Family Tree, and Cherishes Every Leaf 2021-02-24T05:00:00Z “Institutions conferred not simply knowledge, but also the means to be seen,” she writes of her decision to enroll in the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University. Seeing the Art World Through Personal and Political Lenses 2018-06-20T04:00:00Z "He simply went to class, did his work, got A's," Hobbs writes of Peace's time at Yale. 'The Short and Tragic Life' explores class, race amid struggle and wonder 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z He wrote of experiencing the “San Francisco Renaissance,” calling the city “the Liverpool of the United States.” Ralph Gleason’s Artistic Activism 2016-05-17T04:00:00Z “Seeing the thrill that Williams got from the lights playing off a Coke can,” Silberman writes of one, “he later sent her a belt covered in red sequins from Kmart as a gift.” ‘NeuroTribes,’ by Steve Silberman 2015-08-17T04:00:00Z “This is the most Wisconsin thing I've ever heard,” one Twitter user wrote of the news. Wisconsin ice cream shop distributes free cones in minus 20-degree temps, continuing 87-year-old tradition 2019-01-30T05:00:00Z This bricolage felt perfectly natural despite its artifice, and for the first time ever, I write of the new work that it was too short. Shaw’s terrific ‘Blueprint’ felt too short 2017-02-21T05:00:00Z “Sometimes we really work very closely, collaboratively on every little silly millimeter on the writing of the song and certainly of the records, and sometimes less so.” Walter Becker was the cynical one hiding behind the guitar 2017-09-03T04:00:00Z Mailhot writes of a friend: “She thinks my husband doesn’t understand how to communicate love, and I think he’s impotent.” ‘Heart Berries’ Shatters a Pattern of Silence 2018-01-30T05:00:00Z Struck by the insensitivity of this attitude, Styron wrote an op-ed, published in the Times in December, 1988, in which he expressed empathy for Levi and wrote of his own experiences with depression. “The Great God of Depression,” An Insightful Podcast About William Styron, Writing, and Mental Health 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z At one point he writes of the children born to immigrants in town: “They are babies born to people who weren’t babies born here themselves.” How a Small-Town Newspaper Editor Won a Pulitzer Prize 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z “For a long time they looked at the river beneath them, saying nothing, and the river said nothing too, for it felt very quiet and peaceful on this summer afternoon,” Milne wrote of the scene. A Vintage Drawing of Winnie the Pooh Just Sold for Nearly $500K 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z As J. K. Rowling wrote of the dishes that awaited Harry Potter at Hogwarts: “He had never seen so many things he liked to eat on one table.” Mohonk’s Farm-to-Table Rebirth 2017-08-01T04:00:00Z “He didn’t want to be a person in need,” Wall writes of James early in the novel, not long after he introduces Nan to his family. A Lifetime at a Church, Filled With Faith and Drama 2019-08-13T04:00:00Z I was living on Cemetery Road and writing of elsewhere. The Man Booker 2012 shortlist: the authors on their novels 2012-10-12T21:54:02Z Abdul-Jabbar was frequently the subject of racial epithets from crowds while at UCLA, and he writes of several incidents in which he and Wooden faced racism. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar memorializes the great John Wooden in 'Coach Wooden and Me' 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z A reason Ms. Kelly was allowed to include a previously unseen “photo shoot” that took place during the writing of her first book. Before ‘The Crown,’ Revelations About the Actual Crown 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z "He has been proved triumphantly right," Greene wrote of the filmmaker. The superb, thrilling 'Third Man' returns in a brilliant restoration 2015-06-27T04:00:00Z “He had to look real,” Ms. Fortnum wrote of the bear in her unpublished memoirs. Peggy Fortnum, Illustrator of Paddington, Dies at 96 2016-04-08T04:00:00Z “Clumps of his white hair,” Ms. Leve writes of one, “would be on the floor.” Review: In ‘An Abbreviated Life,’ Ariel Leve Escapes Her Mommie Dearest 2016-06-26T04:00:00Z Or as Shaw wrote of Ibsen’s play, “The revolt of Nora is the end of a chapter in human history.” ‘A Doll’s House’ at Seattle Shakespeare Co. 2013-01-03T22:36:43Z “It’s a deep, loving character study and manages to make us laugh while demonstrating how much the truth can hurt,” Roger Ebert wrote of “Made for Each Other” in The Chicago Sun-Times. Joseph Bologna, Onscreen Tough Guy With a Sense of Humor, Dies at 82 2017-08-14T04:00:00Z “Listening to Trump, it almost felt like there was no such thing as truth anymore,” she writes of his campaigning, adding that his tactic was to “appeal to the ugliest impulses of our national character.” Seven talking points about Hillary Clinton's new book, 'What Happened' 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z TIME’s Richard Corliss wrote of Pulp Fiction, “It towers over the year’s other movies as majestically and menacingly as a gang lord at a preschool.” The 12 Most Controversial Best Picture Oscar Winners of All Time 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z White writes of childhood very well in Happy Valley; its unanswerable bewilderment and its unthinking cruelties. Happy Valley by Patrick White – review 2012-12-19T08:00:06Z More reliable, perhaps, is Keaton’s account of the writing of Annie Hall, which grew from Allen’s fascination with Keaton, her mother and sisters. Woody Allen and his sisters 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z “Elegant in a black cocktail dress, she mixed vodka martinis, the house full of actors, poets and politicians as well as journalists,” Hilsum writes of one such gathering. She Reported From the World’s Combat Zones, at the Cost of Her Life 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z In his most recent book, 2015's "Deep South: Four Seasons on Back Roads," Theroux wrote of his travels through the American South. What do a Gutenberg Bible, Charles Bukowski and Paul Theroux have in common? 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z A looping, weaving sequence turned out to mimic the writing of Morganti's own name, and a flashing collage of phrases showed what radically different nuances could be given to a simple gesture or walk. Pina Bausch's World Cities – what's the verdict? 2012-07-08T17:30:01Z In her 1963 book, “Black Sheep, White Lamb,” she wrote of a woman who “pecked over her obsessions like a crow at a corpse.” Dorothy Salisbury Davis, Suspense Novelist, Dies at 98 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z In the “I Like to Watch” introduction, Nussbaum writes of her male classmates at NYU, where she was a literature doctoral student in the late 1990s. Review | How one critic’s once-iconoclastic views about television’s ascendancy went mainstream 2019-06-11T04:00:00Z “A Civil War soldier wrote of mixing snow and sugar in his wine and said it was admirable,” he recalls. What did the founding fathers drink? And other pressing wine questions. 2015-04-05T04:00:00Z “She lost herself to me,” Julavits writes of her younger self. ‘The Folded Clock,’ by Heidi Julavits 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z What Murray Kempton wrote of JFK in the 1960 primary — that "He is fresh and everyone else is tired" — applies to Stephen, an idealist with a terrier's determination. The Ides of March: Ladies and Gentlemen, President George Clooney 2011-10-06T08:00:00Z Others may write of the sublimity of dining on the Mexican Caribbean at Noma Tulum, but thank you for taking your role as critic with some sense of responsibility and gravity. Why I’m Not Reviewing Noma Mexico 2017-05-23T04:00:00Z "At best a major disappointment, at worst an extravagant exercise in tedium," she wrote of the film. Judith Crist obituary 2012-08-10T11:55:04Z Amy Hubbard, Yale University professor of English and American studies, doesn't use "Best American" in her classes, which focus on the study of — rather than the writing of — literature. '100 Years of Best American Short Stories' is vital yet flawed for loading the canon 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z In his own book, “How to Be Danish,” out in 2012, Patrick Kingsley, a reporter at The Guardian, wrote of his bemusement at the ubiquity of the term. Wintering the Danish Way: Learning About Hygge 2016-12-24T05:00:00Z He is well into the writing of the second volume in the series, so his mind is still focused on vampires and what he sees as the origin of the fascination with them. Justin Cronin?s ?Passage? May Be a Best Seller 2010-06-01T22:14:00Z “They sharpen themselves on each other,” Perry writes of Cora and Ransome, “each by turn is blade and whetstone.” A Spirited Widow and a Monstrous Serpent Propel a Lush Novel 2017-06-07T04:00:00Z He writes of suffering from depression, and how in the past it was connected to his drinking. This Time, He Stars In His Own Story 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z In an obituary of his colleague, Moore wrote of the "prodigious amount of work" that went into the mapping project but, also, that "his personal enthusiasm was inspiring". Picturing science: Mapping the moon 2013-06-11T07:25:01Z “You could do what you liked, nobody cared,” he writes of an Irish bar in Murray Hill, because there’s not a place in the world Mr. Furst can’t make sound louche. A Critic’s Survey of Summer Books 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z Two people close to Gov. Chris Christie who were pivotal in the plan to close access lanes to the George Washington Bridge wrote of creating traffic problems at the home of a local rabbi. The New York Times - Breaking News, World News & Multimedia 2014-02-27T17:04:29Z “I follow this every year and always end up saving a heap of money as well as the time spent wondering what to buy!” one mom wrote of the shopping rule. Parents swear by viral 'four gift' Christmas rule: 'It made shopping a whole lot easier' 2019-12-11T05:00:00Z Decades later, journalists wrote of seeing the scars from the shackles on Mr. Ford’s ankles. T-Model Ford, Late-Blooming Bluesman, Is Dead 2013-07-19T00:45:07Z In “On Poetics,” he wrote of what makes for a great work of art. The art of David Ortiz: Is Big Papi himself a work of art? Let’s consult the experts 2016-10-16T04:00:00Z She writes of women who finally were allowed into higher paid factory positions during World War II only to be shunted aside when men wanted those positions back. Seattle’s Ijeoma Oluo calls out the elephant in the room in ‘Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America’ 2020-11-27T05:00:00Z “We have come to the conclusion that our trust in her was misplaced,” Rolling Stone wrote of Jackie, before ultimately retracting the story. Five years on, the lessons from the Rolling Stone rape story 2019-12-29T05:00:00Z His tone can veer from chatty — he writes of collagen that “splorts” — to overly academic, and there is enough repetition that one could wish for a sharper editorial scalpel. Skin and Bones, Hold the Skin: An Author Considers Our Inner Scaffolding 2019-04-02T04:00:00Z She writes of her experience of being a grad student through to becoming a physicist. The Many Layers of Lorna Simpson 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z "Incomprehensible," said the Guardian's Adrian Searle, while critic Paul Morley, on BBC2's The Review Show on Friday described it as "one of the great pieces of comedy writing of the year". Charles Saatchi's catalogue of disasters 2010-06-08T19:00:00Z “The only way I can explain how it happened,” Ms. Williams writes of her life’s unlikely trajectory, “is to tell you exactly what went down.” Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: Patricia Williams Goes From Crime to Comedy 2017-08-20T04:00:00Z Englehart, a conscientious objector who was honorably discharged from the Army, took over the writing of "Captain American and the Falcon" in 1972 in the midst of the Vietnam War. The politics of Captain America 2011-07-19T21:01:00Z "And I wanted to get a strong female voice in the writing of this." Pixar Animation to make 'Toy Story 4' 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z We wrote of “geoclimatic” hazards and disasters instead, and we hope that term catches on. How the world breaks: An intimate look at recent global natural weather disasters 2017-04-22T04:00:00Z On his Facebook page last year, he reportedly wrote of his alcohol abuse and crack addiction. Islamic State's soft weapon of choice: social media 2014-09-22T04:00:00Z As Alexis Petridis wrote of the opening night, there is something curious about the fact that "a band who once seemed so forward-looking … now appear consumed by their past". Kraftwerk at Tate Modern, night two: Radio-Activity 2013-02-08T14:53:56Z “Wandering through books and archives can be a lot like wandering through landscapes,” she writes of her research, and recalls a moment when she discovered a mention of yet another of Orwell’s obscure interests. Review | Orwell was more than a social critic. Rebecca Solnit’s new book finds him in the garden. 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z It contains some of the best writing of his career. Books of The Times: ‘The River Swimmer,’ Two Novellas by Jim Harrison 2013-01-15T19:55:50Z “There was only one leader for us,” she writes of her family, “And it was Hitler.” November must-read books: Lynda Barry's comics, Carmen Maria Machado's "In the Dream House" and more 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z Plato wrote of the ring of Gyges, which bestowed the gift/curse of invisibility, leading men to thieve. Internet trolls can’t help themselves 2012-08-01T21:00:00Z There’s a lot of writing of this vague sort early on. The Music Biographer Peter Guralnick’s New Book Covers Many Subjects — Including Himself 2020-10-26T04:00:00Z Michael Henderson, in the Spectator, wrote of Syed's Bounce: It is an ambitious book undermined by a clunking style, and an eagerness to find profundity where none exists. William Hill Sports Book of the Year 2010: who should win? 2010-10-26T13:48:00Z Nesbø is not alone in writing of political extremism and deep social problems in Norway, just as many Swedish, Danish and Icelandic authors do in their own homelands. How will Norway's crime writers respond to the Ut?ya massacre? 2011-07-30T23:06:29Z “We are veterans of the same war,” Ackerman writes of his Syrian friend Abed, “the same disillusionment, one where high-minded democratic ideals left a wake of destruction.” A Reckoning With the Wars He Has Known 2019-07-10T04:00:00Z In Mr. Miller’s 1987 autobiography, “Timebends,” he writes of being acutely aware of his Jewishness, and of struggling in adolescence “to identify myself with mankind rather than one small tribal fraction of it.” Avi Hoffman and Suzanne Toren on ‘Death of a Salesman’ and Yiddish 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z This is a disappointing way to write of one of the founding figures of postmodern dance. Review: Decades of Lucinda Childs’s Cool Minimalism in Motion 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z But then Saturday results started rolling in, and Warner started popping the Champagne. Deadline.com, an entertainment news blog, wrote of the sky-high total for Saturday, “That is not a typo.” At the Box Office, Little Plastic Bricks Have Legs 2014-02-09T22:25:37Z She writes of their romance, careers and dreams, and the grief that comes with the quiet. The Story of a Famous Covid Widow 2021-06-10T04:00:00Z Professor Merriman approached the research and writing of his books with a similar goal: to avoid approaching 19th- and 20th-century French social and political history dryly. John Merriman, Eminent Historian of France, Is Dead at 75 2022-06-11T04:00:00Z “A Christmas Story,” which is set not in Ireland but northwest Indiana and was based on the writing of Jean Shepherd, might seem like a very different assignment. Summer theater heats up 2011-05-26T22:06:30Z “I thanked the highway,” he writes of the time when he cared for Emily while she was sick and staying a couple of hundred miles away. ‘Son of Elsewhere,’ a Funny and Frank Story About Life After a Big Move 2022-07-06T04:00:00Z Instead he pushed himself into the writing of the new record. Biffy Clyro interview: 'We care too much to be cool' 2013-01-26T22:00:01Z In an essay for The Guardian, he wrote of Beethoven as a composer who “lives his freedom and achieves it in ever-new ways.” Playing Beethoven’s Piano Sonatas Changed How I Hear Them 2020-07-03T04:00:00Z It is an invitation to ask questions, to participate in the writing of multiple histories, to think about where we place emphasis on certain historical markers, about who influences who. 'Elles' exhibit at Seattle Art Museum asks: What is 'women's' art? 2012-10-07T06:38:52Z Communication, pronunciation, elocution, writing of all forms, grammar, punctuation, public speaking, whatever the students needed in this broad area, I was to help them with it. The eye surgery I never should have seen 2014-01-28T00:00:00Z Hemon writes of how when he became a father he used to start to imagine something terrible happening, but would stop himself. Nowhere man 2013-02-23T08:00:16Z You write of possible fallout — but what of any benefits? Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Your son is 29. Only he can get himself into therapy at this point. 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z “For all its magical incantations, murder, lust, voodoo and exorcism, the narrative never casts a spell potent enough to stir the soul,” a critic for The San Jose Mercury News wrote of “House.” Marcus Gardley’s ‘The Box: A Black Comedy’ Comes to Brooklyn 2014-04-13T21:56:13Z In her blog, deborahsilver.com, she writes of the need for “twinkle” to help “stave off the gray.” In this season of austerity, there’s a cold sort of beauty in decorating with twigs 2020-11-30T05:00:00Z “It seemed,” Leith writes of the 2008 election, “that though we expected politicians to make speeches, we didn’t like them to be too good at it.” “Tubes”: What the Internet is made of 2012-05-28T00:30:00Z In “The Taste of Country Cooking,” Lewis wrote of her childhood in Freetown, a rural settlement in Orange County, Va., founded by formerly enslaved people, Lewis’s grandparents Chester and Lucinda among them. On the menu at the Edna Lewis family reunion: Deviled eggs, peach cobbler and pride 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z It comes when you take sound and fury in his writing of the 1950s at face value. A guide to Pierre Boulez's music 2012-07-16T15:49:00Z Cedric’s work also inspired the writing of the film because he already was working with people in the village recycling and transforming materials that are seen as waste into art installations and zero-waste fashion. With ‘Neptune Frost,’ How to Make an Afrofuturist Sci-Fi Musical 2022-06-03T04:00:00Z Shortly after the massacre, in which several were killed and several hundred injured, Thomas Love Peacock wrote of it to his friend Percy Bysshe Shelley in Italy. What's poetry's role in protest politics? 2010-12-15T17:02:20Z “A more perfect unconscious metaphor for his American cockiness,” the critic and historian Joseph Horowitz writes of the moment, “could hardly be invented.” Brash, Confident and Democratic: How Leonard Bernstein Symbolized America 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z Army’s Western Defense Command, writing of the threat posed by Japanese-Americans, argued, “The very fact that no sabotage has taken place to date is a disturbing and confirming indication that such action will be taken.” The Japanese-American Artist Who Went to the Camps to Help 2017-01-31T05:00:00Z Over on the blog Daddy Dialectic, Shawn Taylor, a contributor, wrote of discrimination not in the workplace, but on the playground. Motherlode: A Minority Father at the Playground 2011-05-19T17:53:40Z “It was impossible for a woman to go about alone,” Virginia Woolf wrote of Jane Austen in “A Room of One’s Own.” On Eating Alone in Paris 2018-05-30T04:00:00Z “Raised with unprecedented access to information,” Chinen writes of today’s improvisers, “they scour jazz history not for a linear narrative but a network of possibilities.” Review | How the Internet transformed contemporary jazz 2018-08-14T04:00:00Z “What preceded the writing of this musical was an eight-year period of not writing songs. A fallow period,” he says. Sting, the tireless troubadour She writes of her “sense of invisibility and need for validation” as a child, the “bottomless urge I had to entertain,” the desire to “entertain the pain right out of” her anorexic mother. Review: Carrie Brownstein’s ‘Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl’ 2015-10-28T04:00:00Z In a statement announcing his return, Mallinder wrote of a “false nostalgia about the analogue past,” and concluded: “Let the machines talk to each other, let them dance … they lead, we follow.” The Playlist: Lana Del Rey’s Pointed Protest, and 8 More New Songs 2019-08-09T04:00:00Z “Sulamith was adorable,” Davis writes of a terrier Nicks owned in 1999, “but there were those who were less than enchanted with the grating, squealing ‘voice’ that Stevie used to communicate with the puppy.” Louise Erdrich on Pregnancy and Who Controls Women’s Bodies 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z Olds frequently borrows religious tropes to write of her erotic life, letting the body take the place where religion had been. Sharon Olds Sings the Body Electric 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z When the young Sontag writes of a tedious night with her stepfather, then contemplates erasing the sentence, she decides against it. | 'Sontag: Reborn': Moe Angelos?s ?Sontag: Reborn? in Under the Radar - Review 2012-01-08T21:53:50Z Saafeld also wrote of how the Titanic was nearly involved in a collision with another liner while at Southampton docks – but seemed more worried that this delayed his dinner. Titanic letter expected to fetch ?25,000 at auction 2010-03-30T12:55:00Z I think we're all asking ourselves whether this coalition can work, and I've heard that Mark slowly became disenchanted with the whole concept of coalitions during the writing of the book. Summer reading: 'coalition books' 2010-07-16T23:05:00Z In the current political environment, name-checking the writing of James Joyce may not seem like the canniest move. The Politicians Who Love “Ulysses” 2019-04-23T04:00:00Z Martin Short, in his lovely recent memoir, writes of growing up a Sinatra fanatic and imitator in Hamilton, Ontario, a few short years before I did the same in Montreal. The Pure Artistry of Frank Sinatra 2015-04-08T04:00:00Z “For me, painting stills the mind,” he writes of this measured approach. In the galleries: At Hillyer, a universe of change, instability and chaos 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z Like all caricatures this one is unjust – no one could have accused Wallace's writing of not being intimately concerned, second by second, with a human pulse – but it contains a pinch of truth. Karen Green on life after suicide 2011-04-09T23:04:02Z Instead, he likens it to what Truman Capote once said about the writing of Jack Kerouac: “That’s not writing, it’s typing.” ‘The Boomer List’ at the Newseum captures a segment of the largest generation “It all sounds like dogs howling,” she wrote of a work that stretches vocal traditions. Peter Sellars jump-starts the conversation at the Ojai Music Festival 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z Uglow reasonably speculates that this was “abuse of some kind,” noting that “Lear rarely writes of touch, or physical desire.” There Once Was a Man Who Felt Lonely: A Biographer Considers Edward Lear’s Art and Its Sources 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z “I want the earliest copy on record,” he once wrote of his compulsion. Frame: Bookstores as Galleries of the Page 2012-08-16T20:19:06Z Because it takes a strong guy of true integrity to stand alone, and that guy is Don Trump Jr. As the president’s son wrote of the opus: “Kanye West is cracking the cultural code.” Even if nobody else is listening, the president's son is singing the praises of Kanye West's new album 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z "We needed a new architecture for a new world," she writes of her mission as American's diplomat in chief, "more in the spirit of Frank Gehry than formal Greek classicism." Hillary Clinton's 'Hard Choices' makes for compelling reading 2014-06-10T04:00:00Z Their interactions have the naturally rhythmic vocal writing of Janacek or Debussy. Review: ‘Upload’ Asks Old Questions With New Technology 2022-03-23T04:00:00Z Trilling writes of Cecil that “culture for him is a way of hiding his embarrassment before life.” Watch “Howards End”—Then Read It 2016-08-30T04:00:00Z Mr. Carlisle wrote of 8 of the 20 crew members surviving in lifeboats for two months, partly by eating the dead. Henry Carlisle, Aided Oppressed Writers, Dies at 84 2011-07-15T03:31:57Z Furthermore, the style of writing of this novel depict how feminine writing works in every novel which is written by woman; unorganized, and splitted plot. World literature tour: Indonesia 2011-07-18T11:22:40Z “I usually don’t worry about doing something new,” Mr. Hong wrote of his films, in an email from Seoul. Films of Hong Sang-soo Capture Pleasures and Pratfalls of Attraction 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z In the beginning, Rhimes writes of self-medicating so frequently with red wine to cope with anxiety that it seems like foreshadowing for a disclosure of a drinking problem. In ‘Year of Yes,’ Shonda Rhimes shares tips from her own enlightenment 2015-11-03T05:00:00Z If you want to see what has been done in the way of writing of slang lexicography for 500 years, then this is the place to go. Slang: The universal language 2012-10-15T11:45:00Z The process “was smart, literate and economical, establishing the gold standard for a particular kind of B-movie,” J. Hoberman wrote of the film in The New York Times. What’s on TV This Week: ‘Saturday Night Live’ and the First Presidential Debate 2020-09-28T04:00:00Z “When we deployed shame, we were utilizing an immensely powerful tool,” he writes of his initial reaction: “The silenced were getting a voice. It was like the democratization of justice.” Jon Ronson’s ‘So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed’ 2015-04-17T04:00:00Z Here, Kondo wrote of the many items keeping homes in a state of disarray, clogging everyday life and robbing people of joy. Blindfolded stuffed animals and other over-the-top ideas from Marie Kondo’s new organizing book 2016-01-05T05:00:00Z As the British critic Rupert Christiansen wrote of a recent production, “The fierce simplicity of the tale gets obscured by flummery and faux religiosity.” Critic’s Notebook: Mark Morris Directing Britten’s ‘Curlew River’ 2013-07-30T20:59:50Z In The Year of Magical Thinking, an account of her first year of widowhood, Joan Didion wrote of "how open we are to the persistent message that we can avert death". Say Her Name by Francisco Goldman ? review 2011-08-05T21:55:03Z Shara Lessley wrote of witnessing the Arab Spring in her book "The Explosive Expert's Wife": "I don't know / where the dead go, only that / you promise to make it home." What’s with all the viral poems? Why we turn to verse in a time of war 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z “It’s not that nobody ever gets away: that’s not true,” he writes of their small town. In 'Universal Harvester,' John Darnielle walks into cornfields, family and horror 2017-02-07T05:00:00Z “His ballets capture perfectly the raffish individualism of life in the Village and strengthen the performance in a number of ways,” the critic Brooks Atkinson wrote of Mr. Saddler in The New York Times. Donald Saddler, Dancer, and a Choreographer on Broadway, Dies at 96 2014-11-04T05:00:00Z “Krakoff has a way to go,” Women’s Wear Daily wrote of his inaugural collection. Reed Krakoff Will Show His First Collection Since Leaving Coach 2014-02-05T23:49:10Z “Sixtysomething, skeptical, scrupulous and allergic to flashiness or exaggeration,” Kantor and Twohey write of her, “but so low profile that she barely surfaced in Google search results. Her ambition was journalistic, not personal.” ‘She Said’ Recounts How Two Times Reporters Broke the Harvey Weinstein Story 2019-09-08T04:00:00Z IN 1939, George Orwell wrote of Westerners flocking to Marrakesh in search of “camels, castles, palm-trees, Foreign Legionnaires, brass trays and bandits.” 36 Hours: 36 Hours in Marrakesh, Morocco 2010-12-23T21:08:40Z Byrne writes of his youthful decision to become a priest, convinced he had a calling, of how he left Ireland at the age of 11 to enroll in a Catholic seminary in England. This Time, He Stars In His Own Story 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z “Guantánamo Diary” is the most profound account yet written of what it is like to be that collateral damage. ‘Guantánamo Diary,’ by Mohamedou Ould Slahi 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z In one of the unpublished manuscripts, Williams wrote of playwrights as "those unattractively awkward, embarrassed, graceless, blushing, fidgeting, shuffling, stammering, wretches". Tennessee Williams lambasted his rivals as 'vampires' 2013-02-17T00:06:15Z The introspective, restrained tone of Supratik’s letters contrasts with the noisier writing of the other narrative, and these opposing perspectives converge several times with particularly dramatic results. Book review: ‘The Lives of Others,’ by Neel Mukherjee Speaking of Shaw: The writing of his character this season has been all over the place. ‘Star Trek: Picard’ Season 3, Episode 8 Recap: Consequences Abound 2023-04-06T04:00:00Z While America is happening to my mind and body, I try to make sense of it as I walk toward home and Love, but my mind can’t make writing of it. Revealing and Obscuring Myself on the Streets of New York 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z He writes of his family’s ordeal in facing the reality of this downhill slide, and of his own particular helplessness as a doctor. ‘Being Mortal,’ by Atul Gawande 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z In 54 entries of varying lengths and dispositions, Williams writes of voices and of silence. 'When Women Were Birds': Grappling with a mother's parting gift 2012-04-11T22:26:06Z “Holding his bow about five inches from the end, Joe Thompson draws a scratchy, rakish tone from his fiddle, full of higher overtones,” Jon Pareles wrote of the performance in The New York Times. Joe Thompson Dies at 93; Fiddler of String Band Legacy 2012-03-02T03:08:25Z In a letter addressed to the justice secretary, Ken Clarke, and printed in the Guardian today, 40 archaeology professors write of their "deep and widespread concern" about the issue. Legislation forces archaeologists to rebury finds 2011-02-04T06:05:00Z The epigraph to Young Romantics is taken from something Keats wrote of his circle in 1817: "The web of our Life is of mingled yarn." Young Romantics: The Shelleys, Byron and Other Tangled Lives by Daisy Hay 2010-04-24T23:08:00Z Later Gary writes of a time when Brown and Gaston went sailing together. The bold, boisterous woman behind the classic children’s tale ‘Goodnight Moon’ 2017-01-09T05:00:00Z To be clear, I had no hand in the writing of the script. How “High-Rise’s” orgy scenes got made on a budget: “‘Game of Thrones’ has pumped the per-person cost of nudity through the roof” 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z But the book became a tremendous success, signaling a new approach to the writing of nonfiction: deeply personal, deeply empathetic, disconcertingly self-revelatory. Emmanuel Carrère’s Disconcertingly Personal and Utterly Gripping Prose 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z “Her sense of the matter was that things were generally hopeless and that there was no place for her anywhere,” Taubes writes of the adult Sophie. A Skeptical Heroine, Unconvinced by Religion, Romance or Psychoanalysis 2020-12-01T05:00:00Z True, there is something rather gauche about the sometimes too predominantly unison writing of the C major quartet D32, composed when Schubert was 14. Cuarteto Casals – review 2012-10-11T16:44:30Z The writing of Stuck the screenplay had come so easily I’d already knocked out a draft of the screenplay of my second novel, Ghost Notes. All writers should read Robert McKee 2013-04-10T20:47:00Z About a dozen pages into "The Argonauts," for instance, Nelson writes of a friend who comes over for coffee and spies a mug Nelson's mother has sent her. An intimate look at a fluid family in Maggie Nelson's 'The Argonauts' 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z A dummy was duly thrown into a marsh and Söderbaum became the State Water Corpse once more, as Goebbels wrote of being moved by the “erotics of death”. The 'Nazi Marilyn Monroe': Goebbels had very nice eyes – but he was a devil! 2017-04-03T04:00:00Z “We were in life together,” he writes of the millions of people who all tuned in to watch the TV movie of the week. Review | Playwright David Adjmi’s stirring memoir, ‘Lot Six,’ explores the very meaning of identity 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z “This, truly, is an international emblem,” he wrote of the five rings, linked together to suggest the unity of humankind. Design: Who Made the Olympic Rings? 2012-07-12T04:47:18Z I wrote of my rage on my blog and was shocked to receive a threatening call from someone close to power. I received a phone threat and knew writers were not as free as I'd thought 2010-05-15T23:07:00Z Shortly before his death, he wrote of his life, “You can’t say it wasn’t interesting.” Review: Thumbs up for Ebert doc ‘Life Itself’ 2014-07-01T04:00:00Z Simkins writes of 'the daily grind of keeping body and mind intact'. Paul Bhattacharjee and Cory Monteith deaths: is acting today just too tough? 2013-07-23T17:45:00Z “Had I been a man, I would have married her,” Bonheur wrote of Micas. Rich, Famous and Then Forgotten: The Art of Rosa Bonheur 2022-10-17T04:00:00Z Sex 'Positively indecent' – or as close as the filmmakers dared … Adams and Franklin call on Mrs Jefferson The writing of the constitution is left to Thomas Jefferson. 1776: the original constitutional nightmare 2010-08-12T08:22:00Z “Parsifal” interested him sufficiently that he went to see the opera again when it was done in Monte Carlo, and in a subsequent letter he wrote of the “great art of Wagner.” A Rediscovered Stravinsky Work, from Before He Made His Leap Into the Unknown 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z Hornberger seems to have approached the writing of the novel as something of a lark—a way to recount for posterity some of the more outlandish stories he either experienced or heard about while serving. What “M*A*S*H” Taught Us 2018-07-24T04:00:00Z I sometimes pick up a new book and think about all the cups of coffee, trips to the bathroom and nose-picking that attended the writing of it. An Encyclopedic New Guide to Cocktails Stirred, Shaken, Rolled, Tossed, Swizzled, Muddled... 2021-12-13T05:00:00Z “What happened to me happens to everyone,” Wolff writes of first hearing that music. Why Seattle Symphony’s next program has just one piece 2017-04-16T04:00:00Z “Like so many, this trial is not about the truth; it’s about winning,” he writes of this early, exemplary case. Review: John Grisham and Michael Connelly, Making Their Cases in New Novels 2015-10-27T04:00:00Z In the following excerpt, “Y is for Yquem,” she writes of a time in her early thirties, between marriages, when she wasted a year on a man who was all wrong for her. My date with a 1985 Chateau d’Yquem 2018-09-03T04:00:00Z “I have to confess that this soup was one of my favorite treats as a child,” he writes of crème vichyssoise glacée. A History of Everything, Served in a Cold Glass of Milk 2018-07-23T04:00:00Z In Black Lake Drewe writes of a conversation with China, a woman he helped when a snake attempted to climb into her picnic basket. Small is beautiful: the joy of short and micro-fiction 2013-07-17T05:56:21Z “Its Modern holdings rank far behind those of the Museum of Modern Art and the Guggenheim,” Holland Cotter wrote of the Met in The New York Times in 2011. In Met’s Future, a Redesigned Modern Art Wing 2014-05-19T04:00:00Z “His sister Jane lived three years,” she writes of De Quincey. Times Critics’ Top Books of 2017 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z “We wanted to do something that honored our characters and something that we planned from the beginning of the writing of season four, which is what we’ve done,” she said. ‘Killing Eve’ deadly cat-and-mouse game enters last season 2022-02-25T05:00:00Z "Reading it aloud could shatter your wineglasses," Elmore Leonard wrote of the first one, "Black Dahlia," in 1987. James Ellroy talks up his new L.A. Quartet 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z In “Specific Objects” Judd wrote of a new kind of three-dimensional work that incorporated aspects of painting and sculpture but was neither. Art in Review: ‘Specific Objects’ 2013-07-04T23:38:57Z Was this really the same man taken to task for stereotyping Chinese train companions as venal, and writing of Africans that "the best of them are bare-assed"? 2010-01-08T21:05:00Z Even with all the research, she said she found the writing of the book hard going. The Many Lives of Jeannette Walls 2023-03-18T04:00:00Z In a 2018 essay in New York, she wrote of learning that she was actually the product of an affair between her mother and the photographer Bob Adelman, who died in 2016. Elizabeth Wurtzel, ‘Prozac Nation’ Author, Is Dead at 52 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z “She’s a beautiful writer, a playwright first, and it shows in the writing of the book; her lyrics are smart and surprising. And Ross’s score is just gorgeous.” Perspective | People said her great-great-aunts posed as white and robbed banks. So she wrote a musical about them. 2020-02-06T05:00:00Z In his 1932 book, “The Disappearing City,” he wrote of the American metropolis: “A parasite of the spirit is here, a whirling dervish in a whirling vortex.” | Frank Lloyd Wright’s Love-Hate Relationship With the American City 2014-01-29T20:24:54Z Brewer's writing of a memoir first was reported by the Arizona Capitol Times. Arizona gov. writing book to be published in fall 2011-05-10T17:01:08Z I climbed a fence, a simple act that I recognized later predestined the writing of 1,200 pages of fiction in my novels “Dalva” and “The Road Home.” A Prairie Prologue in Nebraska 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z Capa wrote of the experience to a friend: “Everybody suspects that you are a spy or that you want to make money at the expense of other people’s skins.” A Modern History of China, in Photographs 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z Post wrote of good manners, saying they're really "nothing but courteous consideration of other people's interests and feelings." Why are we SO obsessed with stories of hospitality gone wrong? 2022-06-11T04:00:00Z In the book, Moore writes of her prior battles with substance abuse; she went to rehab for drug and alcohol addiction in the mid-1980s. Demi Moore reveals she was raped aged 15 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z His parents were part of the post 1960s "back-to-the land" movement, fired up on the writing of self-sufficiency pioneers such as Helen and Scott Bearing and Wendell Berry. Lucas Foglia: the photographer in search of off-the-grid Americans 2012-07-13T16:13:18Z Ephron wrote of summers in the Hamptons on Long Island when her children were little, of fireworks on the Fourth of July and picnics on the beach. Nora Ephron, writer-filmmaker, dies at 71 2012-06-27T03:28:11Z Ms. LuPone plays the highlight reel and the blooper reel essentially in straightforward chronological order, writing of roles and rehearsals and openings and closings in a style unadorned by felicitous phrasing or sustained reflection. Books of The Times: Glory and Misery on the Way to Stardom 2010-10-07T22:52:00Z “He’s a good-looking charmer with a silver tongue and a heavy heart,” she wrote of his appearance at Washington’s Dance Place in 2009. Keo Woolford, ‘Hawaii Five-O’ actor and dancer of traditional Hawaiian styles, dies at 49 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z The title of the program, in January, that will feature Ms. Beglarian’s piece draws on a letter by Rilke in which he writes of “a barely arching bridge that connects the terrible to the tender.” After Trauma, a Silenced Vocalist Sings Again 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z “A major new pianist has arrived,” the critic Anthony Tommasini wrote of that night. Review: Igor Levit Arrives at the Philharmonic, at Last 2022-05-08T04:00:00Z As Fitzgerald wrote of Gatsby: “He was never quite still; there was always a tapping foot somewhere or the impatient opening and closing of a hand.” George Santos had an awkward first day at the office 2023-01-03T05:00:00Z In the wake of the successful surgery, he seemed cheerfully resilient, writing of the experience: “When Charles Darwin gave us each two balls, he intended one as a spare. Hallelujah.” Will Welch Leads GQ to ‘the New Masculinity’ 2022-09-17T04:00:00Z Schloss writes of a time, incredible as it may seem now, when painters in New York had the clout of movie stars. New York’s Midcentury Art Scene Springs to Life in ‘The Loft Generation’ 2021-11-21T05:00:00Z She wrote of devising 10 or 20 designs at a sitting. Art Review: Swatches Illuminate a Painter?s Other Art 2011-03-17T22:16:56Z “I’m happy if I can be boss,” the author once wrote of their relationship, which more closely resembled a marriage than anything else. The Many Faces of Patricia Highsmith 2021-04-19T04:00:00Z At the beginning of the novel Fitzgerald writes of Gatsby's capacity for hope; at the end he writes of man's capacity for wonder. What makes The Great Gatsby great? 2013-05-03T18:00:00Z I prefer to talk about the writing of the thing. Maggie Smith on her memoir's unanswerable questions and feeling ambivalent about "Good Bones" 2023-04-13T04:00:00Z Bebergal grew up lighting black candles and playing Dungeons & Dragons, he says, but somewhere in the writing of this book, his adolescent enthusiasm got replaced by a deadening academic scrupulousness. Book review: ‘Season of the Witch: How the Occult Saved Rock and Roll” I was isolated in the writing of the book. "Miles Morales: Spider-Man" author Saladin Ahmed: "Politics are central to the story for me" 2019-07-26T04:00:00Z "They deserve to be treated with respect," Goldman wrote of the figurines. Paula Goldman's menagerie of Hagen-Renaker collectibles 2015-03-04T05:00:00Z “On Interstate 15, the going felt a little treacherous,” he writes of a stormy day south of Provo. They’re Not as Famous as Lewis and Clark, but They Should Be 2019-07-16T04:00:00Z “He wore his swagger as part of his El Snazzo suit,” Ms. French wrote of Scorcher then. Books of The Times: ‘Broken Harbor’ by Tana French 2012-07-18T20:18:22Z Jordan is 15 now and is proud that the film credits say, “Based on the writing of Charles Monroe King and the book by Dana Canedy.” Reliving the Pain (and Joy, Too) of My Deepest Love Onscreen 2021-12-22T05:00:00Z “Did you notice,” one wrote in an interoffice memo, “that no work of Schuman’s has been performed in the five years he writes of?” Two Composers, Honored Silently 2011-07-30T04:00:25Z The notion of a trapped consciousness is as terrifying here as it is in Dalton Trumbo’s “Johnny Got His Gun”: “His thoughts began to race like mad,” Steig writes of Sylvester. William Steig’s Books Explored the Reality That Adults Don’t Want Children to Know About 2019-06-03T04:00:00Z "Minor not major Izzard," I wrote of the possible future mayor of London's latest standup show. Alexander Armstrong hits back at 'tribal aversion' to posh comics 2013-05-14T15:04:06Z “I’ve lived through it and way too many others have as well,” Twitter user Concertange wrote of the issues raised by the trend. #MeToo: Sexual harassment stories sweep social media after Weinstein allegations 2017-10-16T04:00:00Z “You are sad beyond measure because, you believe, there are no good people,” she wrote of learning her hero had wandering hands. Who’s next? A moment of reckoning for men — and the behavior we can no longer ignore. 2017-10-26T04:00:00Z “The daughter part of me shatters,” Buntin writes of her mother’s response, “sees this as a failure that will change our relationship forever.” Writing truthfully about my father: An act of resistance, an act of love 2018-07-27T04:00:00Z “Marriage wasn’t something we did after we’d grown up, it was how we have grown up and grown together,” she wrote of herself and her husband. Sex on Campus: She Can Play That Game, Too 2013-07-12T20:23:14Z With this, he wrote of Ruth, gave her a title, and conveyed the nature of her work. Flashcards, shoestring budgets and butter: How "The French Chef" came to be 2022-04-02T04:00:00Z “I felt as if I were walking with destiny,” Churchill wrote of that moment in May 1940 when he achieved the highest office. Is This the Best One-Volume Biography of Churchill Yet Written? 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z “They had known war and terror and hunger, had seen dear ones dead before their times,” Mitchell writes of postwar southerners. Reading Gone with the Wind in Pyongyang 2012-10-25T17:00:12Z You can almost hear the frantic writing of a thousand Apple computers as Carter and his staff grasp at straws to keep their fan base alive. 10-year time capsule: When "The X-Files" changed TV fandom 2011-02-16T21:24:00Z She also wrote of her attacks, "My targets didn't deserve them. No one does. Many of them needed empathy, kindness, understanding and support, not my meanness masquerading as a kind of casual, edgy humor." Chrissy Teigen and the enduring, celebrity need to be relatable 2021-06-16T04:00:00Z In his introduction Lebrecht writes of anxiety as “a sense of dread or apprehension,” which “most psychologists” consider “a negative, inhibiting emotion.” How Jews Have Made an Impact on the Modern World 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z In her memoir she wrote of that moment: “My candidacy had been struck by an almost fatal blow before the campaign had hardly begun.” Being vice president is dreadful. Running for it is so much worse. 2016-10-03T04:00:00Z On her first album, “Way Out West,” in 1974, she wrote of gamblers, rounders and outlaws and, in the title song, of heartbreak and disillusionment: Mary McCaslin, Folk Singer Who Lamented the Lost Old West, Dies at 75 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z “That changed the entire writing of the show,” Teller said. I?m Not Really a Corpse. I Just Played One Onstage. 2011-03-04T00:24:08Z Benjamin wrote of it skeptically, charting its rise alongside the spread of the printing press. The End of Endings 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z What Murray Kempton wrote of JFK in the 1960 primary — "He is fresh and everyone else is tired" — applies to Stephen, who fights to balance idealism with a terrier's determination. 'The Ides of March': George Clooney for President! 2011-08-31T14:20:00Z The author starts by writing of his present-day visits to the area that was East Prussia. Books of The Times: ?Forgotten Land? by Max Egremont - Review 2011-12-28T22:10:01Z Together they bring this world alive, closing the centuries-long distance between the writing of the play and this interpretation. | 'Coriolanus': Ralph Fiennes and Vanessa Redgrave in ?Coriolanus? - Review 2011-12-01T23:36:25Z And so the saying of my name and the writing of it becomes complicated. How do you pronounce your name? 2021-11-14T05:00:00Z Mr. O’Rourke wrote of watching “typical American boys and girls develop deep feelings of betrayal by their government.” ‘The Train to Crystal City,’ by Jan Jarboe Russell 2015-01-18T05:00:00Z Neither do I, nor do I think that writing of any genre that sets out to lambast its characters is likely to be good. Writing truthfully about my father: An act of resistance, an act of love 2018-07-27T04:00:00Z “We weren’t doing nothing — we were standing still,” she writes of one moment in a performance. Balanchine and Cunningham: The Titans of 20th-Century Dance 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z Jessica Van Meir, who is from Atlanta but living in the U.K., wrote of the alleged incident, which reportedly happened Saturday, on her social media page. Virgin Atlantic passenger claims she was sent sexually harassing messages via plane's chat system 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z Now, instead of talking about pumpkin patches and playdates, Marina and her husband are writing of their new life. The Krims show the world what healing looks like 2013-01-08T21:11:00Z As long as the TV series continues, the writing of “Thrones!” remains unfinished, with the group updating the stage show to events unfolding on TV. Sex! Savagery! Singing! It's 'Game of Thrones' as musical parody 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z He concedes his work may be folly: “Given time, neurologists may well establish a firm connection between mental illness and the writing of books about the Royal Family.” Review | Princess Margaret’s beauty and arrogance are on parade in ‘Ninety-Nine Glimpses’ 2018-08-01T04:00:00Z Grimwood evokes the scent of a Corsican hillside; he writes of monks on St Michel hovering "at the back of the dilapidated cathedral like unhappy ghosts" and the tawdry, crowded stink of Versailles. The Last Banquet by Jonathan Grimwood – review 2013-07-20T10:01:08Z But, she added, “his practice is very different to what we do; when you work with highly skilled dancers performing the specific writing of a choreographer, you can’t transmit that by Skype.” When the Choreographer Won’t Fly, the Dancers Rehearse by Skype 2019-09-23T04:00:00Z “Jeremy Renner, Christian Bale, and Bradley Cooper all fought and succeeded in negotiating powerful deals for themselves,” she wrote of her co-stars. Jennifer Lawrence Speaks Out Against Gender Pay Inequality 2015-10-13T04:00:00Z "I crashed eight or 10 times in that 10-mile race," Smith writes of one event. Good writing about great riding in racing star Malcolm Smith's autobiography, 'Malcolm!' 2015-10-16T04:00:00Z In an e-mail, Paul Muldoon, poetry editor of The New Yorker, describes performance as “an act of creativity and criticism combined, as was the writing of the poem in the first place.” Poetry in Performance in New York 2011-10-06T22:17:39Z “Honestly, it didn’t occur to me to tell it,” Polley writes of the latter version. How Sarah Polley, Child Star and ‘Canada’s Sweetheart,’ Grew Up Way Too Fast 2022-03-01T05:00:00Z As she spent time subsuming herself in the writing of others, she began to think more about her own creative ambitions. That Voice You’re Hearing? It Might Be Hers. 2022-07-22T04:00:00Z But their form of feminism, such as it is, represents an “evolution” from the writing of the last century, said Alemany Bay. For Latin American Women, Horror and Fantasy Capture Everyday Struggle 2022-10-09T04:00:00Z She also wrote of the “Manichaean tone to some of the passages in this book, and at times, a hazardous tendency to generalize.” The Times's Reviews of National Book Award Winners 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z “I was not going to attack Palin just for being a woman appealing for support from other women,” she wrote of the exchange with the Obama campaign. Sarah Palin believes she is the only actual victim of the “war on women” 2014-06-10T04:00:00Z In another, he writes of a young Tim Buckley humbly hesitating to accept payment after a performance at the Folklore Center, eventually taking the money, only to spend it on a cab ride home. Settled in Sweden, the Man Who First Booked Dylan 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z The idea of office ennui is nothing new — in 1853, Melville wrote of Bartleby, the clerk who one day decided he preferred not to do his job anymore. Are More and More People Working Meaningless Jobs? 2018-06-26T04:00:00Z “They were farmers or children or farmers, bumpkins most of them,” Mr. Penn wrote of the 1930s gangsters who inspired the story. Arthur Penn, Director of ?Bonnie and Clyde,? Is Dead 2010-09-29T14:59:00Z She writes of a pummeling childhood, a history of serial betrayals by boyfriends, and a mostly bleak marriage to James Taylor, with whom she is apparently not in communication. Review: In Carly Simon’s Memoir, Few Secrets Left Untold 2015-11-25T05:00:00Z A few years later, he wrote of his sexual alienation and a youthful, brief conversion to Catholicism — Gilman was a Jewish atheist — in “Faith, Sex, Mystery: A Memoir,” out in 1987. Literary Fathers, Literary Daughters, and the Books That Bind Them 2023-02-05T05:00:00Z Describing the loading of a rifle, he writes of “the black magic of the gun slamming forward.” ‘Youngblood’ review: A novel about the Iraq War from a soldier who was there 2016-01-22T05:00:00Z “This is not a positive look at larger women in fashion but a freak show,”one Internet poster wrote of the V shoot. Plus-Size Wars 2010-07-29T15:41:00Z “It was the most exciting meal of my life,” Child wrote of her lunch here. Overnighter: Near Paris, a City of Flaubert and Joan of Arc 2013-08-08T19:59:58Z In a past column, I wrote of one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World — the Hanging Gardens of Babylon. How we lost the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World 2017-08-20T04:00:00Z He writes of his fears about the increasing use of encryption. In ‘The Threat,’ Andrew McCabe Issues the Latest Warning Call About Trump’s America 2019-02-16T05:00:00Z “Her feet were often bloody and her poorly tended sores infected,” she writes of Marie. Camille Laurens’s “Little Dancer Aged Fourteen” Is a Fascinating Hybrid, and Obsessed with Obsession 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z She wrote of the experience in “Dear Friend, From My Life I Write to You in Your Life,” a series of enigmatic essays in which she traced her depression and lifelong desire to disappear. A Mother Loses a Son to Suicide, but Their Dialogue Continues 2019-01-22T05:00:00Z "She was lovely in both of them," Powell wrote of Simmons in his autobiography, "I don't think that she was ever quite so good again." 2010-01-24T20:25:00Z “Best $40 I ever spent,” Martinez wrote of her eerie outfit, which she later tweeted is the “Rake Skin” costume from the Spirit Store. Nebraska college student's scary Halloween costume prank goes viral 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z Roig-Franzia wrote of the charged reaction in the Pennsylvania courtroom Thursday, relating how, as the forewoman of the jury said the words, “guilty, guilty, guilty — the courtroom rocked with emotion.” Perspective | The Cosby verdict feels like a stunning breakthrough. But it was decades in the making. 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z “One of my responses,” she writes of her extraordinary childhood, “as a defense mechanism, was to become very positive about everything in my life.” Keke Palmer Keeps a Check 2020-08-28T04:00:00Z |
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