| 单词 | bookish |
| 例句 | Keeley, the sentimental sap, was listening to the silly, bookish girl and easing up on his grip. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z “I don’t really know. I guess people thought of me as too bookish, I guess.” It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z For some reason resorting to uncharacteristic, bookish language. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Kyle knew Sierra Russell could handle anything bookish the game makers threw at her. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z Brandon was so small and so bookish, she had just assumed he wasn’t very athletic. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z I was a dreamy, bookish girl, not inclined to politics and protest. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z The local racetrackers grew fond of the odd, bookish boy, nicknaming him Red, and a few let him ride their horses. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z She could see the similarities between these two lonely children, even more clearly than they could: the same sensitive personalities lurking inside both of them, the same bookish wisdom layered over a deep naïveté. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z I became bookish, puzzling to all my family. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Lee, once he had given up his brackish bookish dream, made a new kind of place for himself in the house beside Reynaud’s Bakery. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z She was my best friend, bookish like me, almost like my twin. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z But he did manage to hire a tutor for Laertes, a bookish, black-capped man. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Skepticism is one of the few remnants of our bookish past, and most of us hold on to it tenaciously. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Would I, filled with bookish notions, act in a manner that would make the whites dislike me? Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z “They’re right. I’m a little off my head right now. Teccam’s septagy, folklore and all that. It’s a bit bookish for me, but a fine thing to study. I didn’t mean any offense.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z When he smiled, however, you saw the softness in his eyes, which made it clear that Lefty was in fact no gangster but the pampered, bookish son of comfortably well-off parents. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Gloriously daft, drop-dead charming, full of bookish nonsense and foul language, brave and generous. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z By the time she’d met him she’d begun to fear that she was retreating into her former self, before Paris—untouched, bookish, alone. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z I was sixteen years old, a harmless boy, bookish and religious, and now I had blood on my hands. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Barristan Selmy was not a bookish man, but he had often glanced through the pages of the White Book, where the deeds of his predecessors had been recorded. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z They were not alike; Aberforth was never bookish and, unlike Albus, preferred to settle arguments by dueling rather than through reasoned discussion. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z Mother had left home after her marriage, as introverted and conservative, and possibly even more shy and bookish, than any of the others. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z The Union Square area is the place to be for the bookish crowds. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z It was how he later wanted me, his bookish but rebellious daughter, to be: a serious student free of alcohol, drugs, and the risk of teen pregnancy. The Power of “Grease” 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z Insiders will recognize real-world touches: the bookish spectacles one defendant dons for court, the feral dogs that roam gang neighborhoods, the civilian police employee who passes tips to her gang-member nephew. The Killers of the ‘Sex Money Murder’ Gang and the Cops Who Went After Them 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z All bookish lyrics and driving rhythms, baroque arrangements with New Wave synthesizers, “Rhumb” and 2010 follow-up “The Orchard” — both issued by Seattle’s influential Barsuk Records — established the group as one to watch. Ra Ra Riot’s new album is a pleasing radio-ready departure 2013-02-07T23:24:56Z That collegial atmosphere has made Tumblr a place where bookish young women have come to feel welcome to express themselves; it's become a haven for enthusiasm and girlish cheer. Tumblr a place for readers and favorite authors to connect 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z That reading of the chains is supported by other bookish references in the painting. Parmigianino’s ‘Schiava Turca’ Comes to the Frick 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z As a bookish adolescent I sopped up texts as if I were blotting paper and they were fluid. Will Self: modernism and me 2012-08-03T21:55:10Z “People essentially have her down as a sort of Miss Marple – a sexless, removed, bookish, woolly, very English sort of individual,” he said. Shedunnit – how Agatha Christie became cinema hot property 2019-11-15T05:00:00Z Using the chronology of Ivins’s life as a narrative spine, Engel delivers the up-close and personal, deploying archival material and interviews to fill in a picture of a bookish child turned freethinker. ‘Raise Hell’ Review: For Molly Ivins, Writing Was Fighting 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z Babel is its soul, and Jonathan David Martin gives a bookish, slightly anxious performance as the writer whose exercises in make-believe and subversion get perfected by thugs pursuing power. Review | This Putin learns the power of lies in ‘Describe the Night’ 2019-06-03T04:00:00Z The sight of a young woman clutching a book but looking uncomfortable in her own skin reminds Ms. Orlandersmith of her younger self, similarly bookish, awkward, alienated. Review: In ‘Forever,’ Dael Orlandersmith Finds Comfort in a Cemetery 2015-05-04T04:00:00Z Her father, who was in the insurance business, was a bookish sort who passed on to his daughter his love of poetry. Valerie Eliot, Wife and Editor of T.S. Eliot, Dies at 86 2012-11-13T02:16:22Z It's a subculture appealing to bookish outsiders, offering a liberating dream, school imagined as a place to belong and shine. Dark Academia and debt: University thrillers are the literary subgenre of the student loan crisis 2021-07-31T04:00:00Z Immersed in this creative, bookish atmosphere, Jessica asked her dad to teach her to read before she went to school. My famous illustrator parents 2013-05-11T07:00:22Z Our narrator, Hazel Lancaster, is irreverent, bookish, soulful and very funny. 2012′s best — so far 2012-07-04T14:00:00Z That said, the trademark Buttigieg traits of openness, intellectual curiosity, and bookish determination are made all the more alluring by the unthinkability of Donald Trump exhibiting any of the same qualities. The Coming-of-Age Tale That Inspired Mayor Pete to Learn Norwegian 2019-05-02T04:00:00Z Nora, a bookish girl from a damaged family, is the kind of teen who's thrilled when she receives a Latin dictionary for her birthday. CJ Daugherty's top 10 secret society books 2013-01-10T14:58:14Z Maybe what they need are some bookish gifts that aren't books. Some favorite gifts (that aren't books) for book lovers 2014-12-01T05:00:00Z The idea for the show was to tell the story of a bookish teenage girl whose best friend was her 30-something mother. Why ‘Gilmore Girls’ Endures 2020-11-23T05:00:00Z The portrayal of Alfredo, sung with lovely lyricism by Ben Johnson as a bookish student in a duffel coat, was perplexing. Eugene Onegin; La traviata – review 2013-02-10T00:06:16Z As a boy, Jodorowsky was bullied for being Jewish and bullied for being bookish. Alejandro Jodorowsky: 'I am not mad. I am trying to heal my soul' 2013-05-23T15:47:54Z Today, the specter of artificial intelligence may rouse anxiety in the minds of the bookish sorts who pack the fair. The Antiquarian Book Fair: From 1750s True Crime to Warhol’s Cats 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z His childhood friend Jonathas is sung by the radiant Portuguese soprano Ana Quintans, made to look like a bookish, slightly uptight young man with short hair and glasses. Music Review: ‘David et Jonathas,’ at Brooklyn Academy of Music 2013-04-18T21:56:57Z We accompany young Shauna to school and see the struggle between her bookish intelligence and her desire to fit in — all while dealing with the cultural pressure on girls to be nice, small and docile. Review | A popular blogger ponders a simpler life in ‘Enough’ 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z I should insert what has become a standard caveat about this composer: Describing “The Romance of the Rose” might make it sound dry and bookish, but it isn’t. Review: A New Opera Puts Real Emotions in a Fantasy Garden 2023-02-20T05:00:00Z On paper, the program he presented at Avery Fisher Hall promised no great discoveries: selections from Shostakovich’s frothy Suite for Variety Orchestra, Rachmaninoff’s chocolate-box Symphony No. 2 and Bernstein’s bookish “Serenade.” Music Review: Budapest Festival Orchestra at Avery Fisher Hall 2013-01-22T23:20:20Z For the bookish, the bummed, and the British, the Fall represent a fading type of bedlam brought on by the presence of a true punk anti-hero. Perspective | Burrowing deep into many rabbit holes of Mark E. Smith and the Fall 2021-07-15T04:00:00Z In my own case, the coronavirus pandemic has left my bookish temperament all the more wistful and retrospective: I regularly find myself lingering over memories of old times and absent friends. Perspective | Remembering Norton Juster and other lost literary friends 2021-03-16T04:00:00Z “The Wife of Willesden,” Smith’s first play, is bookish bed death. Review: In ‘The Wife of Willesden,’ a Literary Marriage Falters 2023-04-06T04:00:00Z It is most reminiscent of the editions of Susan Sontag’s journals that have appeared in recent years and that have became very popular among a certain kind of young, bookish person. Joan Didion gets out of town in 'South and West' — and finds only fragments 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z Adapted from Gideon Defoe’s Pirates! book, this is rather openly aimed at the primary school audience, with that title namechecking two key obsessions of the bookish kid. Aardman's 20 best films – ranked! 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z In so doing, she’d given me a living demonstration of Castiglione’s true art, “that art which does not seem to be art,” one best learned through practice and imitation, rather than bookish study. When in Rome, Learn to Cook Italian 2015-09-11T04:00:00Z To a bookish Frenchman, Princeton was thrilling not merely as “the university of Einstein and Oppenheimer,” but “also of Faulkner’s great first translator, Maurice-Edgar Coindreau.” A Survivor Recalls the Charlie Hebdo Massacre and a Long Road to Recovery 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z There is an entrepreneurial side to him, which used to draw the unjust epithet "hip capitalist", but it's more accurate to see him as the essential bookish representative of the underground. Barry Miles: 'I think of the 60s as a supermarket of ideas. We were looking for new ways to live' 2010-03-20T00:06:00Z It may not furnish quite the sensational ending the opening seems to promise, and some readers will find it too inward and bookish. James Lasdun reviews The Scientists: A Family Romance by Marco Roth 2013-02-16T09:01:01Z But Paul, editor of the New York Times Book Review, treasures that list for both the memories it triggers and the milestones it represents throughout her exceptionally bookish life. Pamela Paul’s memoir ‘My Life with Bob’ is a love letter to books 2017-05-02T04:00:00Z Asbo doesn't understand his bookish nephew — "Do something useful," he tells him. 'Lionel Asbo': from brothel to brawl and back in dystopian England 2012-09-13T20:25:05Z In this crackling novel, a bookish Iranian in exile retraces the journey she took with her father, and finds love along the way. New in Paperback: ‘God Save Texas,’ ‘How It Happened’ 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z Mr. Stermer created a classical, bookish typographic format that influenced the designs of the early Rolling Stone and New York magazines. Dugald Stermer, Illustrator and Ramparts Art Director, Dies at 74 2011-12-08T04:57:38Z Christ, by contrast, is a calculating, complex, bookish manipulator who accepts that a church, a structure, and a bureaucracy are necessary in order to harness the tremendous power of Jesus' teaching. The Gospels, according to Philip Pullman 2010-03-29T15:14:00Z The fiery Giraldo channels her emotions into her athletic routines, and Grainger, who’s bookish and shy, uses step as a release. Three Baltimore teens bared their souls for ‘Step,’ and the response has been overwhelming 2017-08-01T04:00:00Z Lim — shy, soft-spoken and bookish — stunned the music world last year when, at 18, he became the youngest winner in the history of the prestigious Van Cliburn International Piano Competition in Texas. A 19-Year-Old Pianist Electrifies Audiences. But He’s Unimpressed. 2023-05-09T04:00:00Z “The thing about Sarah is, at times she comes across as bookish, at times brash, at times intellectual, at times she’s that gal from Texas,” Reilly said. Her Role at HBO Max? Challenging Netflix 2020-05-27T04:00:00Z Long before our own looking-glass era, in which real news is denounced as fake and fake news is promulgated as real, accurate information enjoyed a mixed reputation, including among the bookish and the arty. The Best Facts I Learned from Books in 2018 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z Fortunately, there are plenty of ways to access new reading material without leaving the house, and to stay engaged with the bookish community even as libraries and bookstores shutter their doors. Readers stuck at home need books — and community. Here’s how to access them. 2020-03-20T04:00:00Z First performed in Bologna in 1811, when Rossini was 19, the “bizarre misunderstanding” concerns a bookish young woman named Ernestina — sung by the brilliant young mezzo-soprano Teresa Iervolino — who would like to marry a philosopher. Pesaro’s Opera Festival Accelerated Rossini’s Renaissance 2019-08-23T04:00:00Z Ms. Egan, 41, grew up in a bookish household in South Orange, N.J., where her mother played the role of literary drill sergeant. Elisabeth Egan’s ‘A Window Opens’ Has Echoes of Her Amazon Odyssey 2015-08-19T04:00:00Z What was the purpose of this strange act of bookish apartheid? Tough tomes: are challenging books worth the effort? 2010-06-29T10:46:00Z To make it more bookish, the couple staged what she called an “open book bar” during cocktail hour. Looking for a Wedding Favor? Try the Best-Seller List. 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z Well, my father was not a bookish man. Going Home with Wendell Berry 2019-07-14T04:00:00Z Mark Oliver Everett’s insular, bookish folk music is consistent in its melancholy. Your week in Seattle music: Eels, Coolio, Metronomy, more 2014-06-04T04:00:00Z Mr. Silvers, for his part, comes across the way he always does: as a bookish monk devoted entirely to the soulful maintenance of his writers and his publication. Books of The Times: Why Be a Tree Stump When You Can Soar? 2011-05-18T00:52:01Z It was riveting, and also touching, to see the wiry, bookish Mr. Greilsammer playing Rameau’s delicate gavotte and three of the variations with such tenderness and intimacy. Music: Two Young Pianists, Forging Connections 2010-02-25T22:49:00Z As the sardonic, bookish Olivia, Morales embarks on an arc of self-discovery that culminates in her aching performance of the show’s title song. Review | Road-trip musical ‘Miss You Like Hell’ embarks on a bumpy ride to catharsis 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z Rebeck, 59, was raised Roman Catholic outside Cincinnati, and was the bookish one among her five siblings. ‘Smash’ writer Rebeck brings a new ‘Way of the World’ to D.C. 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z “That means we’re going to have an argument,” Mr. Silver said, bookish in a gray A.P.C. sweater and Cutler and Gross spectacles. New York Fashion Week: New York Fashion Week: Duckie Brown — Daniel Silver and Steven Cox — for Perry Ellis 2012-09-05T18:53:00Z His platform manner is unaffected, almost bookish, and his playing is free from flamboyant musical gestures; this is considered and unfussily precise pianism, which repays close listening, and doesn't reveal all its subtleties easily. Francesco Piemontesi – review 2012-11-08T17:26:49Z Matt Shimkus' sweet but penetrating performance as the appealingly bookish Bonhoeffer sets up interesting tensions whenever the cleric arrives at a moral and historical crossroads. Review: 'Beams are Creaking' offers night of intrigue, thrills ? and courage 2011-04-08T22:49:05Z We’ve got a fairy-tale-style omniscient narrator who notes the exact years, months and days since certain events; oddball aunts who raised a bookish niece; and police investigations that are more whimsical than gory. How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend? 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z New College dispensed with grades and large lectures, and it appealed to the homeschooled and bookish Derek, who wanted to pursue a double major in German and medieval history. The Plight of the Political Convert 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z Three years later Stacton was dead; and for four decades since, his memory has been kept alive largely by admiring fellow authors and, more recently, in the bookish corners of the blogosphere. David Stacton: the method man 2013-01-26T10:00:01Z The babies grow up into the physically robust, straight-talking, straightforward Jesus and the bookish, calculating, often morally tortured Christ. Philip Pullman creates a darker Christ in new assault on the church 2010-03-26T18:21:00Z Where has the bookish boy who could "charm the birds out of the trees" gone? The Lost Man Booker prize 2010-04-01T07:00:00Z Besides being the author of novels and short stories, Sarna is also an easygoing brief essayist, often linking his bookish “second thoughts” to his official sojourns in Britain, Russia and Afghanistan. A treasure trove for book lovers: Michael Dirda picks books about books 2017-03-29T04:00:00Z It was a giddy, animated crowd, but most of all bookish — a collection of fans and believers, here to listen to the written word. A Book Lover?s San Francisco 2010-12-04T05:00:00Z To be stupefied by the meaninglessness of it all seemed suddenly cool, if only to bookish adolescents. One big yawn: boredom is not just a state of mind 2011-07-16T23:05:46Z It was like my bookish childhood rescued me. Tayari Jones: By the Book 2018-02-06T05:00:00Z Pick up this novel if you’re after a bookish thriller with stunning backdrops — Cambridge’s rarefied campus, Aegean seascapes — scattered with clues in Ancient Greek. Summer Is Coming. Bring a Book. 2021-05-19T04:00:00Z I was your typical quiet loner, bookish to the point I could be. “Something was wrong with Aunt Jane”: Brad Watson on the uncommon woman behind his new novel, writing difference and the appeal of “fly-over” country 2016-07-20T04:00:00Z Tom Holland, with his bookish people-pleaser charm, is the quintessential Marvel poster boy: cute and harmless, wracked by guilt over how much he's called to save the world. How will "Evil Dead" and "Spidey" director Sam Raimi fare in the MCU? It'll swallow his soul 2022-05-05T04:00:00Z Bob's bookish nature helped him come up with the vital clue or the piece of evidence which could close a case. On the trail of the Three Investigators 2010-09-23T11:00:00Z It’s hard to imagine the Mother of Dragons playing a bookish, submissive virgin. "Game of Thrones'" Emilia Clarke Says She Turned Down "Fifty Shades" 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z In person Mr. Morris, son of the filmmaker Errol Morris, is bookish and intense, speaking with a fastidious attention to word choice. Hamilton Morris?s Web Series ?Hamilton?s Pharmacopeia? 2012-02-12T07:47:21Z The movie still favors Nell, a bookish pragmatist who’s studying for her achievement tests when the story starts. Review: ‘Into the Forest’: Be Very, Very Quiet. The World’s Ending. 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z With his bullish figure typically dressed in elegant suits, and a magician’s just-you-wait smile often hovering over his face, he cuts a striking figure in a city arts scene dominated by bookish executives and technocrats. A Legend of the International Culture Scene Arrives in New York 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z Certainly anyone who loves to read will love reading this Serbian fabulist’s entrancingly bookish stories and novels. The narrative seductiveness of Zoran Zivkovic 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z Brooklyn is clearly a bookish borough: Witness the 40 authors and illustrators, all based there, who will attend this free annual festival. 8 Things to Do With Your Kids in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z Want to take home a bit of bookish goodness? 8 Travel Itineraries for English Literature Lovers 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z He was born in Liverpool, where his father was bookkeeper for a shipping company, though also a bookish character in another sense, learning languages and other skills to better himself. Robert Robinson obituary 2011-08-13T12:28:49Z Ms. July grew up in a bookish household in Berkeley, Calif.; her parents, both writers, run an independent New Age publishing imprint, North Atlantic Books. Miranda July Blurs Fiction and Reality to Promote a Novel 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z James grew up in New Jersey not far from Manhattan and was a bookish girl who adored theater. Star rising: Nikki James of 'The Book of Mormon' 2011-05-17T18:43:08Z Jon may have the sword skills and hair to die for, but it’s Sam–bookish, sweet, exiled by a hateful father–who is our companion to a battle he has no business fighting. RECAP: Game of Thrones Watch: Fee Fi Fo Fum! 2014-06-08T04:00:00Z Vanessa Wye is a lonely, bookish 15-year-old on scholarship at an elite boarding school in Maine. Girl, Interrupted 2020-03-06T05:00:00Z Not was it just more bookish sorts who were jumping in. Film and TV stars shake up the British election (sort of) 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z It starts with the two teens in jail: Marquis is a bookish prep-school student being raised by his adoptive white mother, while Tru is a streetwise kid who fears that Marquis is too “white.” Sharp lessons in ‘Hooded, or Being Black for Dummies’ 2017-02-01T05:00:00Z The story begins with a smart, bookish, overlooked child: “At the grand old age of 5, I am waiting for love.” Two Memoirists Explore Abuse and Survival 2021-02-23T05:00:00Z Ruth’s apartment had such a warm and welcoming yet bookish feel. Living Rooms: Onstage Spaces to Lust For 2010-04-29T21:42:00Z Times, with this week’s newsletter with some great bookish stories to carry you through Thanksgiving. Books: The National Book Award winners, Alexander Chee on his mentor Kit Reed and more 2017-11-18T05:00:00Z Photograph: Graeme Robertson This literary festival is now in its 19th year and represents an urban alternative to the traditionally genteel rural bookish events. This week's new events 2010-10-08T23:07:00Z A bookish autodidact who left school at 15, she gravitated toward philosophy, the occult, Freud and Jung. How Poly Styrene Broke the Mold 2022-02-01T05:00:00Z He was bookish and sickly as a boy. John F. Kennedy, an always youthful president, would be 100 this month 2017-05-23T04:00:00Z Two Weeks, a hit in the US, and Foreground provided rare injections of melody, but at heart Grizzly Bear are a more bookish, less populist Fleet Foxes. Grizzly Bear 2010-06-29T21:40:00Z Those fans have been described as bookish, while Darnielle’s songs have often been called literary. What to Do in New York City in August 2022-05-05T04:00:00Z Less bookish fans posed in front of neon lights and disco balls for the perfect selfie. Ansel Elgort and Offset Party During Art Basel 2021-12-03T05:00:00Z The gallery was curated not by a posse of bookish conservators, but by 30 local people of South Asian heritage. A Museum Pivots to Become ‘an Empathy Machine’ 2023-02-17T05:00:00Z It is about a heist of F. Scott Fitzgerald manuscripts from Princeton University’s main library, a bookish thief and a struggling young novelist. Nobody wanted John Grisham’s first novel — but now it’s buried treasure 2017-06-07T04:00:00Z You “bookish types,” as Mr. McDonough describes his readers, will surely want to listen to her sing on the basis of this book’s recommendations. Books of The Times: Stand by Your Singer and Her Art 2010-03-03T22:54:00Z There are several other vintage bookish items up for auction from the series. You can buy Don Draper's books 2015-08-03T04:00:00Z It is very unusual for a bookish person to head for Turkey these days without packing a few novels by Orhan Pamuk. The best summer reads ? and where to read them 2011-07-15T13:15:01Z Schumann as Inspired by Goethe’s Timeless Tale As a bookish young man born to a literary household, thought seriously of becoming a writer. | 'Faust': Botstein?s American Symphony in Schumann?s ?Faust? 2010-04-11T21:16:00Z I agree with your basic premise, but hardly agree with your portrayal of Alan Gilbert as genial, bookish and curious, and utterly without glamour. With James Levine Fired, Should We Rethink Maestro Worship? 2018-03-13T04:00:00Z The bookish young man on a bike who stopped to talk to me was Maneck. Summer readings: A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry 2011-08-17T15:32:15Z “Cooking for one person you fancy is hard enough, but three of them is even more stressful!” says Sanson, who has brown hair, an open, friendly face and a bookish air.. All you need is loves: the truth about polyamory 2018-09-25T04:00:00Z A sinking economy and rising fascism led the bookish teen-ager to communism. Eric Hobsbawm, the Communist Who Explained History 2019-05-09T04:00:00Z I confess that I don’t really know what that means, either, but a bookish friend had suggested I ask. Hollywood’s Most Decent Fella on Harvey, Trump and History 2017-10-11T04:00:00Z A bookish nine-year-old moves house because her uptight mum demands that she get into the catchment area of a good school. Judd Apatow's Love and the return of Better Call Saul – new to Netflix in February 2016-02-03T05:00:00Z Paris night life’s greatest hope is a bookish bon vivant who’s ready to rage. | Party Monstre 2014-03-31T19:00:23Z Hodes was a bookish child who dreamed of being a writer. An Infamous Hijacking, Revisited Through a Child’s Eyes 2023-06-01T04:00:00Z Despite my track record, I tried to maintain my bookish persona. How Bibliophiles Flirt 2019-02-22T05:00:00Z We asked McGreevy to explain it from a more bookish perspective; he answered our questions by email. New venture El Jefe aims to bring novelists to TV 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z It was obvious: The Folger’s new niche could be a bookish brand of theater history. The quiet impresario: Pulling the right strings at the Folger 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z However, your ambitious tour is both geographically and bookishly inspiring. Road Trip Reads 2018-05-22T04:00:00Z But certain bands - the Smiths, R.E.M., the Cure - continue to hold a special place for bookish listeners of new generations, and to influence writers looking for titles. ArtsBeat: Book Titles With That Indie-Rock Feel 2012-12-12T18:43:58Z For some, this too muchness, married to Wilder’s bookish mischief, will pall. ‘The Skin of Our Teeth’ Review: A Party for the End of the World 2022-04-25T04:00:00Z In a bookish but appealing series begun in 2008 Ms. Reichek uses digital and hand embroidery and silk-screen to reproduce a wide range of images and literary quotations relating to the Ariadne myth. Art In Review: ELAINE REICHEK: ?Ariadne?s Thread? 2012-02-24T00:08:46Z What our critic said: The movie is “catnip for the bookish. It will also appeal to anyone with nostalgia for a generally underappreciated era in New York history.” How to Watch ‘Black Panther’ Free and Other Oscar Movie Tips 2019-01-29T05:00:00Z By all accounts, Crabbe – who was awkward and bookish – wasn't much cop as a preacher, and his return to Aldeburgh was far from happy. George Crabbe: The man behind Benjamin Britten 2013-06-14T17:00:01Z The play, too, is a feminist act, placing a Hermione type — a bookish, whip-smart woman — at its center and forcing her to do something about her own loneliness. Review: ‘[Porto]’ Features a Bar Regular Looking for Love 2017-01-16T05:00:00Z After a lifetime of serious reading, how deeply do you still feel conscious of not coming from a typical bookish background? ArtsBeat: Q. and A.: Joe Queenan on Books Classic, Trashy and Otherwise 2012-11-30T15:00:16Z Asim was part of a “close-knit but contentious family of bookish eccentrics,” raised in a “hyperliterate household,” by studious, accomplished and artistically driven parents. Review | In ‘Boyz n the Void,’ a ‘malcontent with an allergy to authority’ finds freedom — and confusion — in the punk rock scene 2021-05-12T04:00:00Z This Alfonso is less the cynical, crusty bachelor you usually see than a bookish and jaded younger man. Music Review: ‘Così Fan Tutte,’ at Peter Jay Sharp Theater 2012-11-16T23:12:47Z It won new admirers, suddenly appearing tucked inside tote bags at bookish Brooklyn coffee shops, and a character based on the author appeared on the show “Transparent.” Eileen Myles Watches Over an Ever-Changing New York 2022-05-18T04:00:00Z I’ll miss them all, and am hoping that they swoop in later, with northern wild men, canine teeth bared, or bookish suggestions to save these loons from themselves. “Game of Thrones” Season 8, Episode 4 Recap: Sex, Lies, and Hellfire 2019-05-06T04:00:00Z He used to edit the literary and political magazine N+1, which is to say that he is more bookish than your standard elected-office-seeker. The N+1 Candidate 2020-05-28T04:00:00Z She described herself as “bookish” and focused on her studies. A Return to California Leads to Romance 2020-12-18T05:00:00Z Even as we’ve shuffled off the image of the ineffectual nebbish, we’ve still been typified as bookish and cerebral instead of masculine in the most conventional sense. Why I love the shameless, gory, Nazi-killing catharsis of Amazon's Hunters 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z Morrison moves fluidly through his upbringing in a bookish family. Toni Morrison’s familiar, flawed ‘God Help the Child’ 2015-04-14T04:00:00Z That was just one role Mr. Train played — the jocund hobbyist who ambled into bookish success. John Train, Paris Review Co-Founder and Cold War Operative, Dies at 94 2022-09-21T04:00:00Z He was also a bit of a bookish know-it-all, even around his mother, Patricia Jacobs, a Harvard Law School graduate who raised him after his parents split up. A playwright who’s at ease with causing discomfort 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z That’s right — the genius of this bookish event is that you don’t actually have to go anywhere. Finally, an event that honors introversion, social anxiety and bibliomania. Everyone wins! All dressed up and nowhere to go? Sweet relief! It's L.A. Library Foundation’s Stay Home and Read a Book Ball 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z To make up more ground, look toward bookish guideposts — publishers, international literary prizes and journals that specialize in global literature. Around the World in Books 2018-01-16T05:00:00Z These Americans tended to be a bookish lot. Review: Adam Hochschild’s ‘Spain in Our Hearts,’ About a Strangely Literary Conflict 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z But rather than read excerpts from their work, the authors ceded the wrestling mat to the fighters, who punched, kicked and attempted to choke each other inside an octagonal cage while the bookish guests observed. Mixed Martial Arts Books by Matthew Polly and Jim Genia 2011-11-17T00:02:56Z In between torturing her snotty older sisters and empathizing with her eccentric, bookish father, Flavia always finds time to help the local constabulary with curious and baffling cases. Sleuths for our time: smarts, not guns 2013-01-11T00:47:17Z It seems a no-brainer, though, that therapists, bookish by nature, would adopt it in their practices. Your Therapist’s Prescription? The Right Book. 2019-07-26T04:00:00Z A popular athlete and a bookish social pariah start a secret relationship while in high school, then float in and out of each other’s lives into adulthood. Washington Post paperback bestsellers 2020-06-02T04:00:00Z Dejected and generally derided, the bookish Billy is brought up by his "aunties" on the isle of Inishmaan. The Cripple of Inishmaan 2013-06-18T22:00:00Z The Library At the Public AS part of the Public Theater’s renovation, a cocktail lounge called the Library was added that harkens back to the building’s bookish past as the Astor Library. Boîte: Boîte: The Library at the Public 2013-01-09T22:09:02Z In fact, “Armenia!” is a rather bookish sort of blockbuster, concentrating heavily on illuminated manuscripts, and presented in low lighting to protect the gospels and romances on view. Reverent Beauty: The Met’s Armenia Show Is One for the Ages 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z The latter lives a bookish solo existence on the edge of our universe — in a house with a great view, perched between worlds. ‘Boy at the Edge of Everything’ takes lonely tween to the stars 2014-03-20T21:42:06Z She cuts a remarkable figure—bookish, witty, opinionated, generous and nearly always the wisest person in the room. Fiction Chronicle: First Lady of the Confederacy 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z When I was 15, a shy and bookish sophomore at a high school in Morocco, my French class was assigned Albert Camus’s “The Stranger.” ‘The Meursault Investigation,’ by Kamel Daoud 2015-06-08T04:00:00Z Ergo, a bookish household was going to be a given for me. I don’t hate millennials anymore! 2013-05-25T13:00:00Z Compete for bookish prizes and keep your eyes peeled for surprise literary guests. Women in sports and women in food: this week's literary to-dos 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z Even more so, historically, in fact, if bookish cooks – always more plentiful across the Atlantic – are a reliable indication. Virginia Woolf and other great literary cooks 2013-02-01T07:00:10Z Kate Stables is part of an honourable tradition of indie rock artists: a little bit bookish, seemingly a little bit fragile, yet working some fundamental tenets of compelling rock'n'roll. This week's new live music 2012-12-22T00:05:21Z As its title suggests, “The Sentence” is an incredibly bookish book. Louise Erdrich’s ‘The Sentence’ Considers the (Literally) Haunting Power of Books 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z Such shows tend to be brainy and bookish. Art Review: MoMA?s ?Original Copy,? Photos Meet Sculpture 2010-07-29T21:15:00Z It will never be full primetime fare, it's too bookish and leisurely for any of that, but that's for the best. Pointless view 2013-03-22T12:06:00Z “But what about the casual atmosphere of living in a bookish world, and being intrigued to pull something off the shelf to see what it’s like?” she asked. Our (Bare) Shelves, Our Selves 2015-12-05T05:00:00Z Her older sister, Mamie, recalls Lorraine being bookish from a young age. Lorraine Hansberry Statue to Be Unveiled in Times Square 2022-05-19T04:00:00Z In person, though, he’s so soft-spoken and bookish he might pass for a librarian. Review | Michael Connelly reveals how ‘Bosch’ was born and other tales of his humble rise to fame 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z The heroine, Tatiana, starts as a bookish teenager in the Russian provinces but ends up a great society lady in St. Petersburg. Review: In ‘Onegin,’ Two Star Ballerinas on Contrasting Arcs 2017-06-25T04:00:00Z “Agnosia, an Illuminated Ontology,” a visually exciting and conceptually bookish installation designed by Mr. Kosuth, gathers together more than 40 works from 1965 to 2015 that feature electrically illuminated words, phrases and sentences. Joseph Kosuth Show at Sean Kelly Gallery 2015-11-26T05:00:00Z Lean, with slick hair and bookish, wire-framed glasses, Everman bears a striking resemblance to the real Frank, pictured in a lobby display. At the Chance Theater, 'Parade' marches to the drumbeat of history 2017-07-12T04:00:00Z She added that his work could be "both jocular and wise, sensory or bookish, as well as powerfully moving". Poet Douglas Dunn wins Queen's medal 2013-12-18T13:13:11Z Frank gives us this ebullient, bookish, often cantankerous man in full. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z Her outwardly bookish existence challenges the ancient distinction between active and contemplative ways of living, but the work of thinking is notoriously difficult to show. Movie Review: ‘Hannah Arendt,’ With Barbara Sukowa and Janet McTeer 2013-05-28T21:31:05Z Beneath his cowboy hat and gruff exterior, he’s a dreamer — something he shares not just with his chef and artist grandkids but also with Erik, who reveals a sensitive, bookish side. ‘Gentefied’ Review: A Rent Is Too Damn High Party 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z Bright, bookish and intellectually ambitious, he studied English literature at Cambridge under the legendary F.R. Booker Prize Winner?s Jewish Question 2010-10-18T22:35:00Z There’s an acceptable identity I could have had, if I’d left well enough alone: I could have been bookish and dreamy and possibly mistaken for shy. Confessions of a Prep-School Feminist 2014-05-21T04:00:00Z I fell in love with ships, in a distant bookish way. The Mary Rose museum has cast me adrift on a sea of 80s nostalgia 2013-05-30T16:00:01Z Among the pleasures of a bookish life is the cozy familiarity that develops when you’ve read a lot about a particular social circle or period of history. The real Stephen Spender as seen by his son in ‘A House in St. John’s Wood’ 2015-11-04T05:00:00Z In real life, Ms. Graham is reserved and bookish, she said. Actress Heather Graham Turns From #MeToo to Toil and Trouble 2018-02-24T05:00:00Z Peripatetic and reflective, bookish and quietly beguiling, the narrator of “Land of Love and Ruins” has clear antecedents in the W.G. Love, Icelandically: On Oddny Eir's novel 'Land of Love and Ruins' 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z I’ve always loved to read, but I didn’t grow up in an especially bookish household. Why libraries deserve to be hip 2014-02-19T18:57:00Z She, like me, was bookish and the subject of unkind remarks about her looks, and, as we were all graduating in a few months, no one bothered to befriend her. Interview With My Bully: The bully who asked me out 2012-05-22T00:00:00Z But the origins of their friendship as literary soul mates did make me think about the wistful stock many of us bookish types place in literature, our desire to believe in its virtuous influence. Review | ‘American Dirt’ offers a thrilling adrenaline rush — and insights into the Latin American migrant experience 2020-01-13T05:00:00Z In that case, a bookish binge could be the answer to your outdoor lounging needs. It’s binge-reading season. Here are the genre-bending romance series to fuel your addiction. 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z “Firebird” explores his mother’s alcoholism, the challenges involved in being a “chubby smart bookish sissy with glasses and a Southern accent,” and how art saved him. 20 Years of L.G.B.T.Q. Lit: A Timeline 2017-06-23T04:00:00Z The collection's willingness to range beyond bookish concerns also appealed to the Evening Standard's Sarah Sands, who called it "a book for those interested in how to live as well as how to write". Critical eye: book reviews roundup 2012-06-22T21:55:10Z Given the dueling narratives, of which one, both or neither may be exactly true, it’s pretty impressive that Flynn and Fincher have managed to transfer this bookish jest successfully to the screen. Gone Girl Plays a Fatal Game of Love and Marriage 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z As one of those bookish friends, I apologize in advance. Downton Abbey Character Quiz 2012-01-05T21:24:10Z The game became a pleasant, thumping backdrop to our bookish conversations. Miriam Toews Gets Nervous When People Assume She’s Read the Classics 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z Before his fingers had reached the volume knob to turn off Steely Dan, I already knew: My bookish and tightly wound father was about to tell me something I did not want to hear. Talking Sex With Dad (in the Ford Taurus) 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z Last week, Indiewire did the Internet a huge favor by compiling nearly all of the times Archer showed off his bookish knowledge. Here are all the pretentious literary references “Archer” has ever made 2015-04-07T04:00:00Z Shy and bookish, with wispy mustache and unkempt hair, Havel came to symbolize the power of the people to peacefully overcome totalitarian rule. Vaclav Havel dead at 75 2011-12-18T11:49:00Z The startling, logical finish may send you out feeling good about this bookish drama — that is, if the circuitous script hasn’t already burned up your patience. Monsters take the stage in a new Gothic musical and a delayed play 2016-02-10T05:00:00Z The men are the rugged, bookish type, with toggle jackets, thick-framed glasses and woolly beards. Boîte : Torst Bar in Greenpoint, Brooklyn 2013-06-12T22:44:56Z Over the next few months, Drift caps became something of a fashion staple for Brooklyn’s bookish crowd. The Drift Wants You to ‘Examine Your Ideas’ 2022-02-26T05:00:00Z Somewhere between the good girls and the bad girls, the bookish girls have been trying to pick their way too. Girl Trouble by Carol Dyhouse – review 2013-03-15T18:59:01Z This bookish combo is a flagrant literary salon and a boutique event, with only nine performances slated for each play. Plays with divergent tones work well at Taffety Punk Both books share a distinctive gothic, bookish vision. The Professor of Poetry by Grace McCleen – review 2013-07-20T08:00:12Z Neither are racism and anti-Semitism, which are used to reveal the true nature of the neighbors who challenge Richard and Jenny and mock the bookish Roger. 'Everything in the Garden': Theatre 9/12 examines the cost of keeping up 2011-07-28T18:48:05Z If you do happen to touch one of these 19th-century bookish equivalents of red M&Ms, don’t panic. For Rare Book Librarians, It’s Gloves Off. Seriously. 2023-03-09T05:00:00Z Her father, a chef of Italian descent, and her mother, an artistic, flamboyantly stylish transplanted Algerian, had hoped their bookish daughter might become a diplomat. Garance Doré, the Style Blogger, Snatches the Spotlight 2014-05-07T21:18:59Z Mr. Lloyd, who directed a dazzling “Duchess of Malfi” at the Old Vic last summer, doesn’t stint on the derring-do factor and heightens the play’s appeal to the inner Robin Hoods of bookish boys. Theater Review: ‘Cyrano de Bergerac,’ With Douglas Hodge 2012-10-12T02:00:00Z After intermission Edna announced with a shrug that the bookish woman hadn't returned to her seat. Dame Edna offers 'Glorious,' cheeky zaniness at Ahmanson 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z The bookish Smiley retreated into his beloved world of German literature even as he was battling deception, betrayal and murder. Perspective | John le Carré didn’t just invent the characters in the foreground of the spy world. He designed the entire set. 2020-12-14T05:00:00Z If you go by what we bookish types say, every fall is the best ever for new titles. 10 books to read in October 2021-09-28T04:00:00Z Seattle’s bookish character surfaces in other mediums as well. With or Without U.S. Funding, Unesco Celebrates American Cities 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z An actor all dressed in white plays her aloof, impeccable mother; another plays O’Grady as a dreamy, bookish child. Bliss and Anger in Balance: The Art of Lorraine O’Grady 2021-03-11T05:00:00Z That May — two months after he turned 18 — the self-described "bookish, introspective, and fairly unassertive" college student volunteered for induction into the Army. Charles Champlin dies at 88; former L.A. Times arts editor, critic 2014-11-17T05:00:00Z I delight in her wit and intelligence, and find her criminally underappreciated by bookish people, perhaps because she is subtle, and because her light beams outward into the world, not back to illuminate herself. In Praise of Elizabeth Hardwick 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z Burbank calls his audience "the Tens," as in quantity, paralleling the former label's self-deprecating aesthetic; he channels the latter's bookish cool, with obscure pop culture references and the odd literary nod. Luke Burbank's thriving "Too Beautiful to Live" podcast records live shows at Columbia City Theater with Sir Mix-A-Lot, Blue Scholars, The Long Winters 2010-07-06T21:49:00Z The fact that Arnott's early books used the form of gangster yarns encouraged a tendency to categorise him as a sort of bookish Guy Ritchie. The House of Rumour by Jake Arnott – review 2012-06-29T07:00:02Z The bookish are a tribe in resistance now; this is the most essential change to our way of life as a people. I Can’t Afford These First Editions, but I Buy Them Anyway 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z Here is Yarmolinsky: “My education did not fit me for rough work and temperamentally I am a bookish fellow.” A ‘Full Deck’ of Chekhov, With the Translators as the Wild Cards 2020-04-14T04:00:00Z The Morgan Library & Museum’s most spectacular piece of bookish bling is now being seen in a new light — quite literally. A New Closeup for a Morgan Library Treasure 1460-02-21T05:00:00Z Keith said she was “really cute” and looked “bookish” in her glasses. Date Lab: ‘The most interesting part of the date was when we talked about rating it’ 2021-03-26T04:00:00Z He queried whether World Book Night would bring in new readers, saying: "I suspect it will be nice bookish people giving the books to other nice bookish people." World Book Night branded 'misguided and misjudged' 2011-02-10T16:28:49Z LeFou, for the uninitiated, is a bumbling manservant to Gaston, the egotistical hunter who is determined, muscles popping, to woo the bookish Belle. ‘Beauty and the Beast’ Director Talks of ‘Exclusively Gay’ Moment 2017-03-01T05:00:00Z Her TV credits include “The Good Wife” and “Beauty and the Beast,” and growing up, she said, she was a bookish child, obsessed with presidential politics and learning Yiddish. Courtney Kemp Agboh Runs ‘Power,’ With 50 Cent’s Input 2014-07-25T04:00:00Z But then I picked up Eugenides’s new novel, “The Marriage Plot,” an exuberantly bookish book that offers the clearest account to date of his cohort’s collective aspirations and anxieties. Riff: ?Why Write Novels at All?? 2012-01-13T22:19:00Z That’s a brash title considering the bookish temperament of the story, which follows a group of bright young political idealists in a story peppered with references to 17th-century British literature. Review | Surveillance, hacking, government overreach: ‘Overthrow’ tackles modern fears 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z With a bookish air and a subversive sensibility, Mr. Fier fit the ethos of the band. Anton Fier, Drummer Who Helped Shape a Downtown Scene, Dies at 66 2022-10-07T04:00:00Z Thank goodness, then, for the new Folio prize, originally announced in a whirl of controversy as the Literature prize, Booker's more bookish younger cousin. Folio prize: a level playing field for self-published authors 2013-05-03T10:23:34Z The brainiest and most bookish memoir, by Fry, outperformed all the others. The year's bestsellers 2011-01-01T00:05:26Z Higson's Lydia is no fey, bookish type but a strong-minded girl with a broad Lancastrian accent who keeps licentious novels concealed in her volume of sermons. The Rivals ? review 2011-03-31T17:08:19Z So much for the “casual atmosphere of living in a bookish world.” Our (Bare) Shelves, Our Selves 2015-12-05T05:00:00Z This racy, larger-than-life love story of a bookish Virginia socialite and a Texas rancher — famously made into a movie starring Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson and James Dean — was the “it book” of 1952. 50 States, 50 Love Stories 2020-02-10T05:00:00Z Dressed in a trim gray suit, with short blond hair and eyeglasses, she looked bookish and earnest and sang with bright, penetrating sound. Music Review: Strauss’s ‘Arabella,’ at Santa Fe Opera 2012-07-31T21:48:43Z Here are a dozen perfect gifts for the bookish people in your life. A dozen perfect gifts for the bookish people in your life 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z When her bookish children play “pretend” or face real adversity, they almost always model their speech and behavior after their favorite reading. Review | A favorite of J.K. Rowling, Edith Nesbit was a pioneer of children’s books and so much more 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z Usually too old, too foppish, too bookish, too bohemian, or the wrong sex or nationality, classic crime-busters likewise tend to look all wrong. Bestselling writers know that image counts 2013-05-16T16:19:29Z Back before I met Abe, I was a bookish nerd in college, but also an anarchist and a labor activist. I slept with the enemy: Here’s what an unlikely romance taught me about racism, Donald Trump, and our cultural obsession with male rebellion 2016-03-20T04:00:00Z Less obvious is why his bookish buddy rides along. ‘All Our Names’: two narrators, one catalytic character 2014-03-19T18:41:07Z Futile Devices sounds precisely as you might imagine the opening track on an album by an acclaimed singer-songwriter of bookish mien to sound: a delicate guitar figure, beautiful Simon and Garfunkel-ish melody. Sufjan Stevens: The Age of Adz - review 2010-10-07T14:30:00Z On one side: a volatile, gruff-voiced interrogator in mirrored shades; on the other, a sensitive bookish type with a soft voice. Why is 62-year-old Liam Neeson a beloved action star? Because he can pack an emotional punch. 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z One summer about 85 years ago in a small Alabama town, a scrappy tomboy named Nelle met her new next door neighbor, Tru, a bookish, dapper dresser with a high-pitched voice and a mischievous streak. Harper Lee and Truman Capote: A Collaboration in Mischief 2015-08-09T04:00:00Z He added that Mabkhout defies the "unfair criticism that the Arabic language is a bookish and fossilised mode of expression at odds with the modern world". Arab Fiction Prize announced 2015-05-06T04:00:00Z It's not what Pauline wanted her life to be, and only bookish Mr Bachman understands. Love and Marriage – TV review 2013-06-06T07:29:48Z He was a bright, bookish child who took a particular interest in history and classics, earning great marks and, eventually, a place at Clare College, Cambridge, where he studied English. | Peter Ackroyd’s London Calling 2013-09-12T13:00:12Z One of the many reasons Early is so hard to pin down is that while he leans on swagger and gusto, his most distinguishing moments mix in another register, his bookish alertness to language. John Early Brings a Deliriously Over-the-Top Sensibility to Stand-Up 2023-06-30T04:00:00Z This bookish patrician wants his principles endorsed, not his personality. The theater of Trump: What Shakespeare can teach us about the Donald 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z Plus a bookish pub quiz and Papa’s birthday. Women in sports and women in food: this week's literary to-dos 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z Reading a great revisionist history of America is the bookish way to feel what it’s like to be born again. Fake News: It’s as American as George Washington’s Cherry Tree 2017-09-05T04:00:00Z Mr. Miller brings a subdued appeal to the diffident Elliot, whose self-deprecating humor is combined with a bookish romantic swagger. | 'Completeness': ?Completeness,? by Itamar Moses - Review 2011-09-14T02:01:02Z A lonely, bookish boy must battle a monster in a book that summons both the powerlessness and wonder of childhood, and the complicated landscape of memory and forgetting. Holiday reading: The best books to pack this summer 2013-06-29T07:00:51Z On Saturday, Kid Flicks One, for ages 3 to 7, brings together characters that include a bookish mouse, a struggling tadpole and a checkers-playing cat, as well as some humans. 9 Things to Do With Your Kids in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z “I realized I’m really supposed to love acting, and I don’t,” says Pierce, looking boyish and bookish in round tortoiseshell glasses. Kander’s second act: Kander and Pierce, with new musical ‘Kid Victory’ 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z And we’ve saved the “what you’re planning to read” question for The Times’s esteemed critics in other disciplines, bookish types all. A Season to Catch Up on Reading 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z Ms. Gordon-Reed, who, as a bookish young girl in Texas became fascinated with Jefferson, clarified that she liked Jefferson “as a subject.” Thomas Jefferson, Neither God Nor Devil 2016-04-05T04:00:00Z Each of these people noted that the bookish crowd has largely dispersed into Brooklyn, where rents are cheaper. A Critic’s Tour of Literary Manhattan 2012-12-14T17:13:34Z None the less, a quick ask around reveals that tackling a series over summer was common for bookish children back then. Children's summer book season is open 2010-07-30T15:40:00Z Theirs was a bookish household, and Adrienne, as she said afterward, was groomed by her father to be a literary prodigy. Adrienne Rich, 1929-2012: Adrienne Rich, Feminist Poet and Author, Dies at 82 2012-03-28T23:54:57Z Epstein plays Jack with bookish likability and a nervous smile, even as the war erodes his optimism. Review | Ken Ludwig’s ‘Dear Jack, Dear Louise’ is an affecting love letter to unlikely romance 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z Of course, my mom didn’t know her bookish but fast-talking elder son was in some abominable alleyway trying to score perico. The Dealer Who Saved My Life 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z Mr. Young said his contribution was to convince her to play down her bookish side, advising her to be “as operatic as you can be about it — you’re not a conceptual artist.” Kara Walker Creates a Confection at the Domino Refinery 2014-04-25T14:00:08Z "Whereas, in actual fact, I probably was a sensitive, bookish type." Tobias Wolff: 'I still feel as though I'm faking it' 2011-08-25T09:32:10Z Like many bookish children, Heidi Julavits kept a diary with dogged regularity, prizing her persistence as evidence that she would one day mature into a real writer. In ‘The Folded Clock,’ Heidi Julavits takes you inside her real/fake diary 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z Jane and I ate lunch every day while walking around in a daydream of bookish silence, then took a twenty-minute nap and worked all afternoon. Garlic with Everything 2014-11-27T05:00:00Z His father, Henry, was a dentist, and though not bookish he was an avid storyteller, whom Mr. Stern credited with fostering his own desire to tell tales. Richard G. Stern, a Writers’ Writer, Is Dead at 84 2013-01-25T03:25:06Z Cusack is Lenù Greco, the bookish one who studies hard and escapes from their old, squalid Neapolitan neighborhood to become a celebrated novelist. Reimagining Old Friends at the National Theater in London 2020-01-06T05:00:00Z In it you’ll find links to our coverage every week plus additional fun bookish stuff. Welcome to the new L.A. Times books newsletter 2016-10-29T04:00:00Z Freya, bookish and sensible, has always lived in the shadow of her “frightening and beautiful” elder sister, Stella, and never more so since Stella’s body was discovered near the seaside village of Bligh. He’s an Artist. His Medium? Wings, Tails, Scales, Beaks and Claws. 2021-04-16T04:00:00Z Mom had been a bookish kid and knew that being different had its downsides — but just as many upsides that, in fact, made life worth living for we, the weird. Patience Is a (Sexual) Virtue 2017-02-27T05:00:00Z The author is bookish and tidy, his brother, who lives in Maine, not so much. Review: In ‘The Oregon Trail,’ Two Brothers Take an 1800s-Style Road Trip 2015-06-23T04:00:00Z Rooney is back with another bookish, epistolary novel — this time following two intelligent young adults navigating their personal lives amid the backdrop of environmental and social upheaval. 19 New Books Coming in September 2021-08-26T04:00:00Z The family moved often, from small country town to small country town, and Delia, shy and bookish, began writing stories to combat her loneliness. Delia Fiallo, Master of the Telenovela, Is Dead at 96 2021-07-04T04:00:00Z A bookish, introverted child, Sean kept mainly to himself, drawing, reading and absorbing everything imaginable about his beloved commercial jets. Motherlode Blog: Coming Out by Christmas Card 2012-11-18T13:30:32Z If "The Sandman" graphic novels were favored by emo and goth kids, The Dreaming's chief librarian Lucien was the patron hero of the extreme bookish. How the conscientious casting of women in "The Sandman" defies the gender-swapping trope 2022-08-13T04:00:00Z It’s a bookish movie about bookish people, but it’s nonetheless cinematic, shot on 16mm, blown up to 35 for enhanced grain and texture, and arising out of the literary-cinematic sensibility of its makers. Jason Schwartzman: ‘This guy is so obnoxious, so abrasive, just off-putting’ 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z “She!” shouted the bookish audience, booing his use of the male pronoun. Madam president? Ellen Johnson Sirleaf knows the job. Now she’d like some company. 2016-06-01T04:00:00Z Daniel Radcliffe is slowly becoming one of Hollywood's favorite bookish actors. Daniel Radcliffe's latest literary vehicle: a Dave Eggers novel 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z Dark-haired, glowering, bookish and faithful, there's just something about a Snape. Move over, Colin Firth – our favorite new Darcy is on "Fire Island" 2022-06-10T04:00:00Z As I learned more about Lieberman, I saw much of myself in him, a bookish and idealistic middle class Jewish kid from the northeast. Bullied, autistic and obsessed with presidents: How the 2000 presidential election changed my life 2021-10-02T04:00:00Z Beale gave us an ardently bookish Hamlet, a graduate student too in love with learning to finish his dissertation. Who is Hamlet? Three actors make their case 2017-08-19T04:00:00Z He told me that he was a “protected and bookish” child. A Graphic Novelist Captures the Paradoxes of Living in the “New India” 2016-08-13T04:00:00Z Another enchanting idea was to portray the Forest Bird as a lanky, bookish young woman in cardinal-red pants and coat; the soprano Stacey Tappan sang the part with nimbleness and sweet sound. Music Review: A Pair of Siegfrieds Complete the ?Ring? 2011-06-20T21:38:53Z Silver is no femme fatale, but she is strong, and she will show this lovely, bookish, too-timid young creature how to be in the world. Review: ‘Paradise Blue’ Rekindles Racial Drama in 1949 Detroit 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z Bernice, a boisterous tomboy, and Ivy, her quiet, bookish new neighbor, who Bean’s mom says seems like a really nice girl. Spare Times for Children for Oct. 24-30 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z She was bookish, and her father got mad at her one summer on Nantucket for wanting to stay inside and read rather than swim and sail at the country club. Postscript: Lindsley Cameron Miyoshi 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z The fascination one feels when imagining the discovery of an unknown Shakespeare play or a misplaced suitcase full of unpublished Hemingway stories gets the blood racing in us bookish types. Review | Bibliophiles love the mystery of a missing manuscript. ‘The Lost Book of Adana Moreau’ is just what they’re looking for. 2020-02-02T05:00:00Z Literature in translation is a huge passion of mine, but usually when you read a translated book it's something from the lit world, something that professors and bookish people read. John Darnielle on 'Wolf in White Van,' on National Book Award longlist 2014-09-29T04:00:00Z The store became a hangout, a bookish “Cheers.” Review: ‘Martial Bliss,’ a Loving Memoir About a Bookstore for Military Buffs 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z So we meet our bookish millennial heroine — a modern-day Elizabeth Bennet, if you will. Review | In ‘The Bookish Life of Nina Hill,’ Abbi Waxman introduces a modern-day Elizabeth Bennet 2019-07-09T04:00:00Z I read eight or nine books in Swat, and I was considered to be a bookish girl! Malala Yousafzai: By the Book 2014-08-19T04:00:00Z Charismatic and impetuous, Lerner was just twenty-two that summer, but she had already fallen in love many times—with books, with revolutionary causes, and with bookish, activist men. What Kind of Worker Is a Writer? 2014-09-01T04:00:00Z Luckily, that is completely at odds with the friendly, softly spoken bookish 20-something currently nibbling on a handful of olives. Bombay Bicycle Club unveil new album 2013-11-08T07:45:51Z Harry Potter star Emma Watson’s latest role will be another bookish heroine. Emma Watson to Star in Disney's Live Action 'Beauty and the Beast' 2015-01-26T05:00:00Z Addressing the crowd, Womack, who is petite, bookish, and wry, read from a set of printed pages in her hand. Lil Peep and the Dilemma of the Posthumous Album 2018-11-11T05:00:00Z The other is a more bookish kind of escape, and culminates in a moment of transcendence achieved mostly by literary style and authorial sleight of hand. Rachel Kushner’s ‘The Mars Room’ Offers a Blackly Comic Take on Prison Life 2018-05-07T04:00:00Z There is a kind of bookish dualism at work. Why ebooks are a different genre from print 2013-03-26T08:21:56Z What sets this show about a bookish youngster apart is its narrative enchantment. The real magic of 'Matilda' is in the story of a spirited, bookish girl 2015-06-09T04:00:00Z To be clear, I like hidden entrances as much as the next bookish child who read “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe” 30 times. Perspective | This influential Cuban bartender wants to preserve the elegant tradition of the island’s cantineros 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z When Hayden looks back on that time, she often switches into librarian mode, reciting snippets of bookish wisdom. Carla Hayden Takes Charge of the World’s Largest Library 2016-09-20T04:00:00Z He projects a certain image — bookish rather than fashionable, though his adherents say that doesn’t pose a problem. Young Grandmasters Try to Make Chess Cool 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z The odd diction didn't seem bookish: it was rough, at times, and full of vernacular energy. Season's reading: I Sing of a Maiden 2010-12-21T16:11:01Z How about that bookish heroines are the most endearing? Review | In ‘The Bookish Life of Nina Hill,’ Abbi Waxman introduces a modern-day Elizabeth Bennet 2019-07-09T04:00:00Z Savage has the air of a bookish Ph.D. student. Whither the Indie Band? 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z Photograph: Joff Winterhart This year has delivered us a crop of graphic novels so rich and varied, you could wrap a different one for each family member and have done with other bookish presents altogether. Best graphic novels of 2012 2012-11-30T11:00:01Z Wright referred to his shy, bookish patron as “my best friend,” borrowed $70,000 from him over the years and never repaid the loans. Antiques: Hunting for Windows in a House by Frank Lloyd Wright 2011-07-07T21:49:42Z The third connection is personal: Salter and Le Guin are both deeply woven into my own bookish life. What we can learn from two literary masters: Ursula K. Le Guin and James Salter 2017-12-05T05:00:00Z Some events venture well beyond traditionally bookish territory. ArtsBeat: Live From the NYPL Announces Fall Season 2013-07-19T15:01:58Z But the bookish 65-year-old who campaigned on rooting out corruption had vastly underestimated his appeal. This president-elect's first tasks: Make it to office and save democracy 2023-10-18T04:00:00Z But behind the bookish demeanor is a hard-driving tactician who isn’t afraid to butt heads with other department leaders to shake up the tradition-bound Bell Telephone culture. Verizon turns to inside fixer to get out of downward spiral 2023-10-16T04:00:00Z He played Dr. Donald “Ducky” Mallard, a bookish pathologist for the Naval Criminal Investigation Service, an agency handling crimes involving the Navy or the Marines. David McCallum, star of hit TV series ‘The Man From U.N.C.L.E.’ and ‘NCIS,’ dies at 90 2023-09-25T04:00:00Z Bella, who’s 53 and solitary in ways that can seem extreme even in a town of bookish overachievers, takes an interest in Christopher despite his abrasive manner. Review: At Pasadena Playhouse, 'The Sound Inside' thrillingly unfurls like a series of puzzle boxes 2023-09-12T04:00:00Z For those of a bookish bent, book clubs often offer a setting for sober socializing. Where to hang out in Seattle if you’re LGBTQ+ and don’t drink 2023-06-20T04:00:00Z This summer, she plans to open Century Farm Books & Brews, and have it live up to its name as a gathering place for drinks and books and bookish conversations. Independent bookselling expanded again in 2022, with new and diverse stores opening nationwide 2023-05-22T04:00:00Z L.A.’s myths are more cinematic than bookish, but Johnson is part of a creative underclass revising the L.A. literary scene writ large. L.A.'s guerrilla readings are invading parking lots and cemeteries 2023-05-16T04:00:00Z Merritt was surprised to find such a bookish fellow in a corporate lawyer’s suit — and such a “natural schmoozer” too. At Richard J. Riordan's book club, nearly 30 years of Proust, wine and friends 2023-04-23T04:00:00Z She was a bookish child who fell asleep most nights reading under the covers, her sister Mary Butler said. Jane LaTour, Fighter for Women in Labor Unions, Dies at 76 2023-04-06T04:00:00Z Described by those close to her as scholarly and bookish, Ms. Tsai is known for caution and understatement. ‘On a Tightrope’: How Taiwan’s President Navigated the U.S. and China 2023-04-02T04:00:00Z As a bookish adolescent in the ‘90s, she was “mortally intimidated by anything physical or athletic.” For a fitness historian (and instructor), exercise is political 2023-02-03T05:00:00Z He describes "Pa" as a sensitive, bookish man who struggled to emotionally connect with Harry after the death of Diana. Spare: Which Royal has come out best in the book fallout? 2023-01-11T05:00:00Z “Some notable leaders have built influence through bookish mastery of procedure,” he said. McConnell breaks record to become longest-serving Senate leader 2023-01-03T05:00:00Z Sandwiched between two popes more skilled in outreach to non-Catholics, Benedict was seen as a bookish purist. How Benedict’s death could reshape the Catholic Church 2022-12-31T05:00:00Z Whatever the truth was, the bookish new pope plainly did not have the early vigor of John Paul II, a skier, swimmer and soccer player who had been elected at 58. Benedict XVI, First Modern Pope to Resign, Dies at 95 2022-12-31T05:00:00Z I wasn’t alone; I imagine “Matilda” was catnip for a lot of bookish kids with latent Anglophile tendencies and dreams of overthrowing their bullies and escaping humdrum reality. Review: Never a dull moment (but many Dahl moments) in the charming 'Matilda the Musical' 2022-12-08T05:00:00Z Books about books sell very well at Moonraker, with Grant Snider’s collection of bookish cartoons, “I Will Judge You by Your Bookshelf,” proving to be “a perfect gift for bookworms of all ages.” 50 years of bookselling adventures at Moonraker Books 2022-11-25T05:00:00Z He was a bookish wannabe cowboy who became a seasoned mule handler in California’s Sierra Nevada. As climate change melts the storied snows of Mt. Kilimanjaro, a climb to the roof of Africa 2022-11-17T05:00:00Z Perhaps the trio’s lyrics are too bookish and political for mainstream U.S. success, but its rousing and increasingly eclectic music should have wide appeal. 4 concerts to catch in the D.C. area over the next several days 2022-11-16T05:00:00Z The bookish Bennet, seeking a third term, hadn’t won previous campaigns by overwhelming margins. Column: He took on Trump and lost Colorado Senate race. But Republican Joe O'Dea kept his dignity 2022-11-13T05:00:00Z As a result, these engaging, personal essays form a partial autobiography, reminding us that a bookish life can be an enviably fulfilling one. Review | Four books remind us that a bookish life can be so fulfilling 2022-11-10T05:00:00Z As a child, her brother said, Powell was both bookish and dramatic. Julie Powell, food writer known for ‘Julie & Julia,’ dies at 49 2022-11-01T04:00:00Z Admirable and successful, they expected much from their bookish son. Review | Darryl Pinckney’s new book is a dishy tale of literary Manhattan 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z I am the eighth of nine children, the bookish one who did well in grade school without trying. A personal reckoning, and the truth comes out of the closet 2022-10-09T04:00:00Z He was 19, bookish and opinionated, and he impressed her with his knowledge of Hebrew literature. Who Killed Tair Rada? Inside Israel’s True Crime Obsession 2022-08-05T04:00:00Z Osama Bin Laden was swiftly replaced at the top of al-Qaeda by his old mentor, the bookish and bespectacled Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri, the man who was killed in a CIA drone strike at the weekend. What now for al-Qaeda? 2022-08-02T04:00:00Z Both selections reflected the former president’s centrist-leaning, coalition-building brand of liberalism — rounding out a list that seems to run, at least among the bookish, solidly down the middle. It's that time again! See which titles made Barack Obama's 2022 summer reading list 2022-07-26T04:00:00Z That has made the bookish former chair of the Federal Reserve an unlikely commander in the West’s economic war — a macroeconomist marshaling forces on the financial battlefield. Janet Yellen’s global campaign to defund Russia’s war machine 2022-07-14T04:00:00Z Well-intentioned bookish types are as susceptible to this line of thinking as populist blowhards, Wayne means to say; anybody who feels threatened likes to turn themselves into the hero of their own story. Review: Where did it all go wrong for Generation X? Teddy Wayne's new novel breaks it down 2022-07-06T04:00:00Z Yet a short rap by Theroux, a bookish British American documentary filmmaker, is storming the internet. Shared Suffering 2022-06-23T04:00:00Z That is, until he wrote a series of autobiographical essays titled “I’d Like to Play Alone, Please” and gave the bookish world a window into his heart. Review: Whips and quips in comedian Tom Segura’s new book 2022-06-14T04:00:00Z However, being a bookish lad, I also have a favorite intellectual, Marina Warner. Review | Marina Warner’s new book evokes the vanished glamour of yesterday 2022-06-08T04:00:00Z Obviously, some people must, and yet today a passion for reading seems vaguely quaint, while to be called “bookish” or “learned” verges on an insult, suggesting a slightly ditsy, even elitist unworldliness. Review | In these gloomy, divisive times, does anyone care about books? I do. 2022-05-25T04:00:00Z But Wayne wants to get well-intentioned bookish types — people who read novels — to look in the mirror. Review: Where did it all go wrong for Generation X? Teddy Wayne's new novel breaks it down 2022-07-06T04:00:00Z For many years, Campbell appeared each week in the Times Literary Supplement, where his back-page essay — ironic, bookish and irresistibly entertaining — was every subscriber’s favorite feature. Review | The tale of a dropout who found purpose in books, travel and just living 2022-05-18T04:00:00Z Samba, as the story’s emotional fulcrum and bookish Lothario, makes Camille both mellow and magnetic, someone whose sensitivity and openness to the many women passing through his life can be both vice and virtue. Review: Romance and real estate mix in the sweet and sexy 'Paris, 13th District' 2022-04-14T04:00:00Z In the gallery below, customers, employees and owners talk about their favorite shops, books and reading nooks and share what they love about bookish Los Angeles. What customers (and owners) love about 10 L.A. bookstores 2022-04-14T04:00:00Z After the demise of the long-lived BookExpo, this MFA-centric gathering represents a writer’s biggest opportunity to network, browse journals, attend panels on literary trends and assemble for bookish gossip. The largest annual writers convention re-emerged last week. Here's AWP by the numbers 2022-03-30T04:00:00Z New Lights encouraged believers to reject all religious authorities except the Bible, to think for themselves religiously, and to value a personal sensation of salvation over the bookish debates of the Old Lights. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z And the idea of this bookish former literature professor offering up Shakespearean quotes, it’s just preposterous. Inside the off-court drama that made the Showtime Lakers 2022-03-20T04:00:00Z As the library grew, the island started to become the bookish equivalent of the “Island of Misfit Toys,” the place where unwanted toys reside in the Christmas classic, “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.” Maine island library wants your banned books 2022-03-19T04:00:00Z The document also paints al-Baluchi in a sympathetic light, referring to him as "one of the more cooperative, likable, even 'gentle' detainees," and as "one of the more intelligent or 'bookish'" prisoners. Docs show CIA used prisoner for torture training 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z It was far from his only bookish obsession. The queer Latina superhero noir novel Alex Segura had to write 2022-03-14T04:00:00Z When I laid hands on my copy of “The Trials of Life,” it quickly became a favorite repository of bookish knowledge. David Attenborough’s ‘Trials of Life’: A reference work with the power to transport 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z Born Rita Carpenter, she described herself as a bookish young girl who dreamed of becoming a Mouseketeer, but who ended up as an opposition researcher in Washington instead. In a run-down Roman villa, a princess from Texas awaits her next act 2022-03-04T05:00:00Z And next I find … that I’ve run out of space here, having scarcely begun to work my way through these yellowing pages of bookish enthusiasm. Perspective | How do you choose a book? Book lists by other writers are a great place to start 2022-03-02T05:00:00Z It is indeed an adventure, and “bookish” in the most appealing sense. Review | Sure, Google is handy, but what about the mighty book index? 2022-02-18T05:00:00Z Quietly, Krösche returned to his former club to hire Bastian Quentmeier, a bookish former hockey player with unruly hair and a fisherman’s beard, as his new club’s head of data analysis. Soccer’s Fastest-Growing Market Is the One for Ideas 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z She sees herself as Bean, the chatty irreverent friend, to Aleena’s Ivy, the bookish one with a lively imagination. From Kabul to Pancake Court: Afghan evacuee children bond online over Ivy and Bean books 2022-02-13T05:00:00Z The trauma of his father’s death had a profound impact, and the young Mr. Wesley became a bookish loner, unable to drive until after he was married. John Wesley, an Artist Who Couldn’t Be Pinned Down, Dies at 93 2022-02-10T05:00:00Z Aesthetically, financially, environmentally and perhaps even morally, everything about the Escalade felt poorly suited to someone like myself, the bookish newspaper columnist who frequently rails against the cultural dominance of cars and so on. Opinion | Help. I’ve Fallen for That Cadillac Escalade. 2022-02-04T05:00:00Z I pictured this classmate seated on the floor of a living room, one much bigger than mine, playing Parcheesi with her bookish parents. The Boy King of YouTube 2022-01-05T05:00:00Z And “then this crowd came,” he said, an unruly mob of what seemed more like thugs than the kind of people — students, bookish dissidents and middle-class malcontents — who usually turn out for protests in Kazakhstan. In Kazakhstan’s Street Battles, Signs of Elites Fighting Each Other 2022-01-07T05:00:00Z He speaks quietly, his glasses lending him a bookish look, which allows him to fit in at Rutgers University, where he is studying public policy. Out of a prison, into a pandemic 2022-01-01T05:00:00Z The team acted as a magnet for all the bookish, mildly nihilistic kids in our town. Opinion | The Gift of a Good Argument 2021-12-13T05:00:00Z There were never any specifics or details, simply that the bookish, gentle Souter and his lifelong bachelorhood seemed to fit the stereotype. Perspective | How backroom politics helped Roe survive a 1992 challenge 2021-12-03T05:00:00Z During the George W. Bush administration, he was a deputy in the division’s appellate section, developing a reputation as a bookish and self-confident lawyer eager to argue cases in every appellate court in the country. Trump Justice ally Clark clashed with colleagues long before election drama 2021-12-03T05:00:00Z Watson, who played bookish Hermione Granger, shared the news of the television reunion on her Instagram page along with a photo of the young cast, and thanked loyal fans known as “Potterheads.” Harry Potter stars reunite for ‘magical’ 20th anniversary special, without J.K. Rowling 2021-11-17T05:00:00Z For the left-leaning, bookish young people in your life, it hits all the pleasure centers — philosophical and carnal, old-fashioned and new. The best fiction books worth gifting (and reading) this holiday season 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z Or enjoy a surprisingly calm chat with a murdered, bookish husband who still longs for the woman who slaughtered him. How 2 L.A. immersive Halloween horror shows keep changing the way we scare 2021-10-12T04:00:00Z It’s not all that surprising that an intellectual, bookish kid who grew up facing pernicious stereotypes in a poor neighborhood became a vociferous racial contrarian who takes fierce pride in bucking trends and stereotypes. Column: Larry Elder and the danger of the 'model minority' candidate 2021-09-13T04:00:00Z "He probably enjoys reading books on philosophy more than chairing board meetings," one said jokingly of the bookish governor. After the 'bazooka', Bank of Japan dismantles the work of its radical chief 2021-09-12T04:00:00Z Four critics on kicking off a big, bookish fall. Does Virginia Woolf matter? What one critic learned from annotating 'Mrs. Dalloway' 2021-08-31T04:00:00Z Her 41-year-old son, Andre, had been deeply intelligent and bookish as a teenager, a fan of science fiction and vampire novels. Why did so many homeless people die while staying at one hotel used in Project Roomkey? 2021-06-28T04:00:00Z This habit earned me nothing but taunts and bullying in my hood where, as a bookish kid, I was already a soft target. Analysis | Intelligent life probably exists on distant planets — even if we can’t make contact, astrophysicist says 2021-06-18T04:00:00Z As a bookish child, I loved most of all an anthology of stories that sat high on my parents’ white bookshelves. X is the Best Letter in the Alphabet 2021-06-01T04:00:00Z When I became notably bookish as well, they could attack me from behind and send my books spraying. Jefferson Street 2021-04-12T04:00:00Z Although quiet and bookish — he read a Bible at his desk and was a deacon at his Baptist church — Mr. Jefferson was not afraid to confront his bosses when the situation demanded. Burtell M. Jefferson, Washington’s first Black police chief, dies at 96 2021-03-19T04:00:00Z Eventually, along came “Breaking Bad” and “Mad Men,” harbingers of the current era of glossy abundance, when even campy fare like “You” comes dressed in bookish garb. Novelists are writing for TV more than ever. How it's changing the industry 2021-02-11T05:00:00Z For his legal education, Canan chose Washington’s Antioch School of Law, a scrappy enclave that specializes in clinical experiential, not bookish theoretical, learning. Opinion | How a young man went from his first job caring for poor field workers to D.C. Superior Court judge 2021-01-21T05:00:00Z Scaringe, by contrast, is a bookish engineer, with a doctorate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The next Tesla? Investors bet big on electric truck maker Rivian 2021-01-19T05:00:00Z He stood onstage in his well-cut suit and his bookish spectacles with the full arsenal of preacherly communication skills: the voice as instrument, the expressive face, the disarming gesture. Perspective | In the Georgia runoff, just showing up for the debate was apparently the hardest part 2020-12-06T05:00:00Z So her parents weren’t surprised when their bookish daughter enrolled at UC Santa Cruz and announced she would major in English and American literature. A South L.A. crime novelist's long road to writing one of best books of the year 2020-10-14T04:00:00Z The Festival of Books is different in part because it’s at least as festive as it is bookish — and the seats often aren’t so comfy. How Pico Iyer found L.A.'s beating heart at the L.A. Times Festival of Books 2020-10-09T04:00:00Z He recalled Maya as more bookish and shy, and Kamala as more outgoing. In Canada, Kamala Harris, a Disco-Dancing Teenager, Yearned for Home 2020-10-05T04:00:00Z A native of San Francisco’s Mission District, young Roberto was bookish but angry, prone to eruptions. A Salvadoran writer busts the Trumpian myth of the tattooed immigrant threat 2020-09-29T04:00:00Z Michael Benjamin Washington lends bookish Bernard a poignant dignity as the character shrugs off a battery of racist put-downs. Review: The 'Boys' are back: Parsons, Quinto and Bomer bring the 'Band' party to Netflix 2020-09-25T04:00:00Z He did change his round spectacles to look less “bookish”. French reporter who joined police exposes racism and violence 2020-09-03T04:00:00Z Hulton and her staff are surprised by how bookish Board & Vellum’s designs are. Expanding despite COVID closures, Ada’s Seattle bookstore empire grows to include 3 Fuel Coffee locations 2020-08-20T04:00:00Z Tuchel seems a slightly colder figure in the flesh, approaching each game with the distracted intensity of a bookish young history don trying to work out how to rewire a plug. Di María the true aristocrat as front three add artistry to the PSG project | Barney Ronay 2020-08-18T04:00:00Z Having to deal with the illness as a child made Smith bookish, by her own description, and reserved. Living off the land: the new sisterhood of Black female homesteaders 2020-07-31T04:00:00Z The new roof, with its mix of indoor and outdoor space and a new catering kitchen, will be available for paid rentals for events like conferences and bookish weddings. MLK Library will reopen in September, giving D.C. a renewed central hub 2020-07-17T04:00:00Z He was reunited with his bookish father, who had renounced material goods and devoted himself full time to a Hindu temple. The Man Striving to Be the ‘Canadian Obama’ 2020-07-10T04:00:00Z An innocent, bookish teenager begins dating the charming, freewheeling high-school senior who awoke on her lawn after a night of heavy partying. Movies on TV this week: Sunday, July 12, 2020 2020-07-10T04:00:00Z The bookish student was said to be a favourite of the rightwing history professor Norman Stone. Who is Dominic Cummings, and why has his lockdown car trip convulsed UK politics? 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z Mr. Chen maintains the bookish manner of a research scientist and is largely unaccustomed to the attention. Taiwan’s Weapon Against Coronavirus: An Epidemiologist as Vice President 2020-05-09T04:00:00Z Kim falls in with the bookish Korean Language Society, which, against the colonialist demands of the Japanese military, is dedicated to documenting and preserving the Korean language — even if it costs them their lives. Catch Up on Korean Cinema From Your Couch 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z He’s always been one of this series’ underexposed bright spots; his sly, bookish diffidence is the perfect counterweight to his alter ego’s uncontrollable rage. Our critics take another look at 'The Avengers' in the #UltimateSummerMovie Showdown 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z The Times Literary Supplement examines the “often not particularly complimentary feminization of all things bookish” in this review of Why Women Read Fiction: The stories of our lives. How did Ellen become one of the biggest villains of 2020? | Arwa Mahdawi 2020-04-18T04:00:00Z In the 1960s, Mitchell made my bookish dad stand and yell in the living room more than any other player. Perspective | If you saw Bobby Mitchell run with a football, it’s hard to remember anything else 2020-04-07T04:00:00Z From the bookish to the sweatingly intense, the gap between the onstage and off is bridged by Hutchings’s singular focus: to effect change through the power of his music. ‘History needs to be set alight’: Shabaka Hutchings on the power of jazz 2020-03-10T04:00:00Z They were conscientious and compassionate — and in many cases more bookish than brawny. Review: ‘Escape From Pretoria’ hits the mark as apartheid-era prison thriller 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z The narrative is thick with literary talk and bookish issues. New novel by Lily King tracks a writer’s love life 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z “To All the Boys” is, at its core, the story of a bookish girl and a pretty-boy jock who embark on a mutually beneficial “fake relationship” but who wind up falling for each other instead. Review | ‘To All the Boys: P.S. I Still Love You’ only reminds us of how good the first movie is 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z With her journalist husband and other family members killed, the bookish protagonist and 8-year-old son make a desperate run for the U.S. border, partly on the freight train La Bestia. 'American Dirt' was supposed to be a publishing triumph. What went wrong? 2020-01-26T05:00:00Z A bookish child, she overloaded on extracurriculars and got into Stanford. She’s Taking on Elon Musk on Solar. And Winning. 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z As a short, bookish Chinese American, I tried my luck on Tinder. We grew up close by, but our paths never crossed. Was it fate to meet now? 2020-01-25T05:00:00Z She grew up the third child with three brothers in west Ireland, a “rough and tumble” childhood, but also very bookish. Eimear McBride: ‘Women are really angry. I feel a deep, burning sense of injustice at the way women are treated’ 2020-01-24T05:00:00Z Medvedev grew up in St. Petersburg, then known as Leningrad, the bookish only child of a chemical engineer father and a teacher and later tour guide mother. Dmitry Medvedev was Putin’s political wingman for years. Now Putin wants some distance. 2020-01-15T05:00:00Z He grew up on Riverside Drive, in Manhattan, among the bookish élite of the Upper West Side. William Barr, Trump’s Sword and Shield 2020-01-13T05:00:00Z The Senate trial will be broadcast on national television, and some House Republicans have privately suggested that Cipollone’s approach may be too bookish. GOP leaders spar over adding House members to Trump’s impeachment defense team 2020-01-08T05:00:00Z He was 21 when he met Morrison, who was tall, bookish and handsome. Doors drummer John Densmore: ‘It took me years to forgive Jim Morrison’ 2020-01-08T05:00:00Z Over the last year, Mr. Hegseth has seemed to move further and further from the bookish veteran of his initial television appearances. Fox Host’s ‘America First’ Shift Makes an Exception for Trump’s Iran Strike 2020-01-06T05:00:00Z And in this free-form corner of the world, the introverted bookish boy and the extroverted sausage salesman melded into one. Jody Maroni's Sausage Kingdom bows out with a Venice Beach goodbye, after 40 years 2019-12-21T05:00:00Z Sometimes, for us bookish types, a particular moment in time requires a particular author, as surely as a bout of winter flu requires paracetamol. Wait, be patient, keep faith: an unlikely mantra for life | Alice O’Keeffe 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z While the more bookish culture and narrower media landscape of the 1950s played its part in catapulting Kerouac to success, serendipity also had a role. Perspective | The accidental book review that made Jack Kerouac famous 2019-12-13T05:00:00Z The memoir paints an endearing picture of Northern Californian family life: global warming is a typical dinner-table conversation, and teen Alyssa, the oldest of three daughters, is depicted as a sincere, bookish pacifist. How Hipcamp Became the Airbnb of the Outdoors 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z This story of blended families and a house where books come to life would make a perfect Christmas present for any bookish nine- to 12-year-old. The best books of 2019 – picked by the year’s best writers 2019-12-01T05:00:00Z Worldly, bookish, curious and somewhat shy, he tends to find other businessmen boring. George Soros: ‘Brexit hurts both sides – my money was used to educate the British public’ 2019-11-02T04:00:00Z A bullied, bookish kid, Gabriadze was shuttled between his native village and his grandparents remote farm. Review: ‘Rezo’ focuses on life of noted Georgian artist Gabriadze but shortchanges his work 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z It’s no surprise they’ve found a receptive audience in excessively cerebral, pleasantly bookish Seattle. What the Pacific Northwest is reading: Ta-Nehisi Coates, Ben Lerner and genre-defying novels 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z For example, Asma is known as the bookish sister, the one who wants an education. An Omani Novel Exposes Marriage and Its Miseries 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z But the piling up of bookish references sometimes suggests an argument being built, against an unseen antagonist, about her place in the pantheon. Edna O’Brien Is Still Writing About Women on the Run 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z Ferguson, 54, slim and bookish with large glasses and graying brown hair, is a calm, reasoned public speaker. By his count, Washington attorney general hasn't lost a case against Trump yet 2019-10-02T04:00:00Z To describe Carl as “bookish” would be an understatement: She wanted to devote her life to books. A fairy tale in Edmonds: The Neverending Bookshop is a crafty destination for fantasy lovers 2019-09-25T04:00:00Z “At seventeen I met a thin, heavy-thighed, balding man who talked and talked, snobbishly, bookishly, and called me ‘Sweet.’ Susan Sontag and the Unholy Practice of Biography 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z As for David Mitchell, with his bearded and bookish mien, it’s not hard to picture him as some sort of nerd-in-chief, earnestly urging his encyclopaedic knowledge on his people. Boris Johnson will have us laughing all the way to the food bank | Will Self 2019-08-25T04:00:00Z Partly autobiographical, the novel was centered on Selina Boyce, a bookish 10-year-old in a West Indian section of Brooklyn, where she is alternately buoyed and weighed down by her family’s Barbadian heritage. Paule Marshall, literary chronicler of the African diaspora, dies at 90 2019-08-16T04:00:00Z “He is simply a bookish historian who traveled to Iran for research in 2016 and became swept up in escalating tensions between the United States and Iran.” Washington state Congress members urge Trump to seek release of UW alumnus imprisoned in Iran 2019-08-12T04:00:00Z Smurf doesn’t mention a bookish militant named Ibram, but he does offer his own assessment of the neighborhood: “Where we are from Jamaica Queens the average youth doesn’t have hope or inspiration to live.” The Fight to Redefine Racism 2019-08-12T04:00:00Z He is simply a bookish historian who traveled to Iran for research in 2016 and became swept up in the escalating tensions between the United States and Iran. Opinion | Iran has imprisoned a historian for three years. Here’s why his research matters. 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z He never married, and is often described as a “warrior monk” for his bookish devotion to military strategy and history. Former defense secretary Jim Mattis rejoins General Dynamics board 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z A resourceful orphaned boy and a bookish girl set out on a quest to unlock a secret left to him by the boy’s late father. Here are the feature and TV films airing the week of Aug. 4-10, 2019 2019-08-02T04:00:00Z We’re incorrigibly bookish, and this summer, we’re reading stories about politics, crime, death, human frailty, emotional complexity and all possible combinations thereof. What the Northwest is reading: From true crime to ‘The Mueller Report,’ we have a creative understanding of the light summer read 2019-08-02T04:00:00Z Olivia Thirlby stars as Holly, who as a preteen lost her mother — the one person in her family who understood her bookish, introverted personality. Review: Reviews: Dinosaur-riding Nazis in ‘Iron Sky, The Coming Race’ and more 2019-07-18T04:00:00Z Aside from their age difference, Edward is bookish and introverted whereas Alice is energetic and fond of peppering her speech with slang. Review | ‘Draugen’ is a picturesque game about delusional thinking 2019-06-06T04:00:00Z He was quiet and bookish, and thrilled when he found faraway new friends in online discussion forums—an early version of the Internet. Can Beto Bounce Back? 2019-05-27T04:00:00Z The addictive story about social hierarchies follows a popular athlete and a bookish pariah who start a secret relationship while in high school. The 20 books to read this summer 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z Giddens, who was gifted at school, describes her younger self as bookish, withdrawn, not very social or popular. Rhiannon Giddens and What Folk Music Means 2019-05-13T04:00:00Z The story, toggling between Tolkien’s bookish boyhood and his nightmarish experience as a World War I soldier, evinces a genuine reverence for its subject, his courage and his boundless imagination. Review: 'Tolkien' fails to open a window into the mind behind 'The Lord of the Rings' 2019-05-06T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, though, in the safety of my neat, bookish little bedroom, I dared to dream – and wildly so. From fan mail to fiction: the letters from famous authors that made me a writer 2019-04-27T04:00:00Z I’ve been shortlisted for a few bookish things but have never walked away with the trophy. People assume I'm middle class – don't they know I grew up playing darts? 2019-04-27T04:00:00Z The soft-spoken, bookish Zaemskiy has specialized in Latin America since his days working for the Soviet Union and was posted to Washington for the first of two U.S. tours when the Cold War ended. Putin envoy in Caracas rejects US revival of Monroe Doctrine 2019-04-18T04:00:00Z The impression is offset by the wire rim glasses he wears and by the bookish disposition of a person who, as a teenager, once asked for a copy of the German Constitution as a present. The IRS tried to take on the ultrawealthy. It didn’t go well. 2019-04-06T04:00:00Z “I was quite shy and bookish. I had more adventures in books than I did in real life,” he says. Manheim native is now a cowboy star in the movies 2019-04-03T04:00:00Z “Former girlfriends describe O’Rourke as curious, wry, bookish but adventurous. He usually carried a novel in his pocket, whether Captain Corelli’s Mandolin or The Sun Also Rises,” the profile reads. Beto O'Rourke 'Vanity Fair' profile mocked for stories about ex-girlfriends, bookshelves and his 'near-mythical experience' 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z I’ve seen him with the beaming tourists who sit in his studio audiences and the awe-struck, bookish kids for whom he was the host of the National Geographic Bee for 25 years. Opinion | Ken Jennings: What Alex Trebek Is Really Like 2019-03-09T05:00:00Z She says she went without a boyfriend in high school and was still shy and bookish when she got to Harvard in 1990. Can Vanity Fair's Radhika Jones keep the party going? 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z From his unsavory but enjoyable sojourns among these bookish lowlifes—they all quoted literature—Hecht extracted something memorable, the myth of the newspaperman. The Great Hollywood Screenwriter Who Hated Hollywood 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z He can casually dismiss the work of Philip Roth in one post and express nostalgia for the bygone era of bookish braggadocio in another. Why Marlon James Decided to Write an African “Game of Thrones” 2019-01-21T05:00:00Z Even the critics who turned up their nose at the bombast of Van Halen in favor of the bookish pop-rock of “Armed Forces” weren’t exactly innocent of such blinkered, ego-driven pathology. Why Do We Obsess Over What’s ‘Relatable’? 2019-01-08T05:00:00Z The adaptation was by Redgrave himself, and he played the bookish intruder. The Unwise Candor of “The Aspern Papers” 2019-01-05T05:00:00Z Billy’s father returned for a bit of one day, with a new wife and son, who refused to enter her bright and bookish house or even accept a glass of water. “Chaunt” 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z They knew him mostly as the bookish kid who liked soccer. Football player finds success, parents’ acceptance 2018-12-01T05:00:00Z She grew up in conservative small-town Virginia and didn’t feel at home there; bookish and out of step. Life goes on for misfit dogs that call Kamp Kritter home 2018-11-24T05:00:00Z I was a bookish child and wanted to be a doctor. Dorothy Bohm's best photograph: two poor children in 50s Paris 2018-11-22T05:00:00Z Also, for some reason, in the years after the First World War, Eton harbored an unusual number of boys who were, like Powell, bookish and sensitive, and they formed something like an arts community. How Anthony Powell Wrote His Twelve-Volume Masterpiece 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z She’d also like her to take the time to date and find a partner, maybe a professorial, bookish type who lives a quieter life, preferably someone who could cook and stock the fridge. Gayle King Has the Spotlight All to Herself 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z Did you grow up in a bookish house? Ian Rankin: ‘I couldn’t get on with War and Peace’ 2018-11-03T04:00:00Z They stay together just long enough to conceive the boy, who loves them both but is raised primarily by his bookish father. Walter Mosley mines identity and notions of right and wrong in ‘John Woman’ 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z Where he’s brash, extreme and exuding machismo, she’s subtle, bookish, bipartisan and a woman in a party that is increasingly nominating female candidates. Amy Klobuchar’s big Brett Kavanaugh moment earned rave reviews. But is it what Democrats demand for 2020? 2018-09-29T04:00:00Z Lewis would go on to star in many more Bellairs-penned adventures, all of which mix chilling supernatural elements into tightly constructed mysteries aimed at bookish 10-year-olds. For more kid-friendly horror like The House with a Clock in Its Walls, stream The Gate 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z It wasn’t surprising that Joy Division appealed to me: bookish, nihilistic, caught somewhere between timidity and self-destruction. Joy Division inspired me to write – but could I write about their music? | Sophie Mackintosh 2018-09-19T04:00:00Z He was academic and bookish, winning a scholarship to the City of London School. Obituary: Denis Norden 2018-09-18T04:00:00Z The producers said Ford’s version of the bookish and reluctant hero initially influenced their take of the character. The creators behind Amazon's 'Jack Ryan' update the classic fictional hero for the binge-watch generation 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z For those bookish types who also love crime fiction, this seems a potentially tasty collection. Paperback Picks: books by Isabel Allende, Paul Yoon and more 2018-08-29T04:00:00Z She was a careful, prepared speaker with a bookish quality, a wry sense of humor and a tendency toward efficiency. There Is More to Stacey Abrams Than Meets Partisan Eyes 2018-08-19T04:00:00Z He was known to be intelligent and bookish—constantly reading a novel. Airplane Stunt Startles Onlookers, Ends Tragically 2018-08-13T04:00:00Z Vaulting from her bookish youth into this bookish marriage, she had skipped adolescence, and adolescence now knocked on the door. The Hunger Artist 2000-02-28T05:00:00Z A writer spends four bookish days in historic Edinburgh. A book-filled visit to Edinburgh, Seattle’s sister City of Literature 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z Kennedy is bookish and abstract, while Mr. Trump is earthy and direct. Not just about the money: Donald Trump, Anthony Kennedy and the “boy” at Deutsche Bank 2018-07-02T04:00:00Z Justice Kennedy is bookish and abstract, while Mr. Trump is earthy and direct. Inside the White House’s Quiet Campaign to Create a Supreme Court Opening 2018-06-29T04:00:00Z Kennedy is bookish and abstract, while Trump is earthy and direct. White House waged quiet campaign to create a Supreme Court opening 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z To me she said, “He was passionate, he was bookish, he was pure. He was very, very unworldly. I was worldly, compared to him.” The Hunger Artist 2000-02-28T05:00:00Z A shy and bookish child, Hans Asperger grew up to love science and nature, hiking and mountain-climbing, and the conservative Catholicism of his youth. A review of 'Asperger's Children: The Origins of Autism in Nazi Vienna' by Edith Sheffer 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z Short and slim, with a buzz cut and glasses, Mr. Anaya, who practices yoga and meditation, cuts a bookish, boyish figure. ‘Ruthless’ Mexican Candidate Goes Far. But Maybe Only So Far. 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z As Gerald Jacobs, the photographer’s son, recalls: “It was as a remarkable place, his studio, like a community centre...I think of it now, perhaps rather bookishly, as being lit by Caribbean sunshine.” Portraits of the “Windrush generation” 2018-06-12T04:00:00Z I was bookish and bullied by older kids: I had a big mouth and didn’t know when to shut up. What’s it like to be 6ft 8in tall? 2018-06-02T04:00:00Z The enthusiasm Petro provokes among his supporters seems at odds with his bookish persona: campaign rallies resemble sociology seminars, with meandering speeches that eschew soundbites in place of historical analysis. 'Of course he can win': leftist defies odds in Colombian presidential race 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z While many admirers of the book see themselves in Jo, the bookish tomboy and obvious stand-in for Alcott herself, others find aspects of themselves reflected in beautiful, nurturing Meg; shy, frail Beth; vain, materialistic Amy. PBS brings 'Little Women' to a new generation 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z Oh, and my all-time favorite bookish account is @lastnightsreading, which posts drawings and quotes from literary events in New York. Did you know Books is on Instagram? 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z She recently became a member of the Irregulars, whose history and membership is much more bookish. It’s Elementary: Sherlockians Take Manhattan 2018-01-14T05:00:00Z Naked as the day he was born, the bookish 25-year-old had been invited on stage by one of the strippers hired for a party at the Atlantis Gym. Indonesia’s Crackdown on Gay Men Moves From Bars Into the Home 2017-12-20T05:00:00Z Abdul-Jabbar acknowledges that his own bookish nature and self-consciousness about his height, combined with a fierce sense of injustice, made him appear surly and aloof as a player. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: 'Trump is where he is because of his appeal to racism' 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z “Sexism wears a lab coat, misogyny goes on witch hunts. . . . Sexism is bookish; misogyny is combative. Sexism has a theory; misogyny wields a cudgel.” Review | How to define, survive and fight misogyny in the Trump and Weinstein era 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z It’s this perfect marriage of compelling image and text, which is exactly what I think a bookish Instagram account should do. Did you know Books is on Instagram? 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z Both the priest and his mother encouraged young Robert, a bookish and solitary child, to dream of a great future, while also drumming into him the habits of Catholic piety. The impact of religion on Robert Mugabe 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z Growing up in wartime Chicago gave Oldenburg, a bookish child of Europe, a firm purchase on America’s brashness, inseparable from its boorishness and brutality. Claes Oldenburg Is (Still) Changing What Art Looks Like 2017-10-16T04:00:00Z The attendees looked mostly bookish; a few of the younger ones wore the beards and browline glasses favored by the transnational intelligentsia. The Prophet of Germany’s New Right 2017-10-10T04:00:00Z Many of those carousing belong to Belarus’s sprouting technology industry — young, savvy and forward-looking designers, bookish and shy engineers, and many others who aspire to belong. How Europe’s Last Dictatorship Became a Tech Hub 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z But Greenblatt’s sentence reads like a standardized test where you fill in the adjectives and adverbs — bookish, pliant, longingly. The story of Adam and Eve: From myth to fact and back to myth again 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z A digital reader with a commitment to be bookish There are some features that are worth highlighting. This dual-screen manga ebook is so book-like you can’t load new content 2017-09-27T04:00:00Z Ashbery was born in Rochester, New York, in 1927 and remembered himself as a lonely child and bookish child, haunted by the early death of his younger brother and by his attraction to other boys. John Ashbery, regarded as one of the world's greatest poets, dies at age 90 2017-09-03T04:00:00Z Alongside the supremely well-read Bob Dylan, David Bowie was probably popular music’s most bookish star. Strange fascination: The best David Bowie books 2017-08-12T04:00:00Z Toíbín gives the impression of being the most sociable of beings, knowing everyone in the bookish world, a fixture at festivals and parties, yet he also is a marvel of brilliant industry. Colm Toíbín: Brexit expats, Trump's Irish influence – and the right way to gouge an eye 2017-07-16T04:00:00Z Dissident cells who previously knew nothing of one another were now in communication, and Gerhard Lauck, barely into his 20s, once a bookish teenage pariah, served as the conduit from thousands of miles away. The Farm Belt führer: the making of a neo-Nazi 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z When I was younger, my favourite character would definitely have been Hermione because, being really bookish myself, she was the one I most identified with. ‘I got Gryffindor pyjamas for my 27th birthday’: fans on 20 years of Harry Potter 2017-06-24T04:00:00Z When the calm, usually sunny Millett, known for his bookish blue glasses and ready smile, talks about what he calls this “perfect storm,” his voice takes on a harder edge. America’s Hidden H.I.V. Epidemic 2017-06-06T04:00:00Z I was always the undersized, bookish kid, routinely picked last for teams. From loathing to learning: Here are your stories about teachers who changed your minds 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z The series hardly portrays him as a bookish recluse, but that alone does not the cad make. Illuminating new series 'Genius' examines Albert Einstein's beautiful mind and extracurricular love life 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z Tall, bookish and with a penchant for designer glasses, Dyson trained as an industrial engineer and dabbled in building things like boats and wheelbarrows before settling on vacuum cleaners by the late 1970s. Dyson is the Apple of appliances (and just as secretive) 2017-04-04T04:00:00Z Tall, bookish and with a penchant for designer glasses, Mr. Dyson trained as an industrial engineer and dabbled in building things like boats and wheelbarrows before settling on vacuum cleaners by the late 1970s. Dyson Is the Apple of Appliances (and Just as Secretive) 2017-04-02T04:00:00Z Cotton Mather was a “bookish” man with blood on his hands. The Illness and Insight of Robert Lowell 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z “Beauty and the Beast” hits theaters in the U.S. on Friday and stars “Harry Potter” alumna Emma Watson as the bookish beauty Belle and Dan Stevens as the Beast. Russia restricts ‘Beauty and the Beast’ to moviegoers ages 16 and up: Report 2017-03-06T05:00:00Z Both were awkward teenagers, whose bookish demeanour masked a shoot-from-the-lip habit that speaks first and asks questions later. Susan Hill: ‘I am not pro-Trump! Really? Do people think that of me?’ 2017-03-04T05:00:00Z Oliver Strachey, his bookish, puzzle-loving father, trained as a pianist and became a cryptographer. Christopher Strachey’s Nineteen-Fifties Love Machine 2017-02-14T05:00:00Z In his 2013 history of popular culture in the White House, Tevi Troy cited Abraham Lincoln as an example of a self-taught, bookish man whose ascent to the presidency made the office more relatable. Opinion | A president who rarely reads has launched a book club for all of America 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z |
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