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Book Review: Benjamin Taylor’s brief new biography of Willa Cather displays the devotion of a fan
Associated Press via AOL· 6 months agoBenjamin Taylor has a thing for Willa Cather. This year, the 150th anniversary of her birth, he has...
Goodbye, Vin Scully: In a Format Designed for Play by Play, He Found Poetry
The Wrap via Yahoo News· 2 years agoHollywood may be known for its storytellers, but the greatest of them never wrote a script, cast an...
Column: Overt racism and antisemitism have become part of our political discourse. How did that...
LA Times via Yahoo Finance· 2 years agoU.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) speaks during a news conference May 12, 2021, on Capitol...
Howard Jacobson interview: ‘I feel personally more fearful now’
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 4 months agoAt the age of 81, Howard Jacobson, master of splenetic satire, has written a tender love story. I’d...
Beware, British publishing – this novel has your number
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 2 months agoThe British equivalent of the Great American Novel is probably the “state of the nation” novel,...
Welcome to Cancel Island – where bad behaviour gets you ahead
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 4 months agoThe opening pages of How I Won a Nobel Prize – the first novel by former lawyer Julius Taranto – are...
Celebrating Willa Cather's classic works and enduring influence
The Santa Fe New Mexican via Yahoo News· 3 months agoFeb. 16—During her life, Willa Cather was "obsessed with her privacy," biographer Benjamin Taylor says. It was that obsession — an understandable one for a woman who was almost certainly a closeted ...
How Marguerite Duras shaped Nobel winner Annie Ernaux and a generation of writers
LA Times via Yahoo News· 1 year agoThe English-language debut of the late French author's second novel reinforces her revival — and her...
Can Liz Cheney defeat 'Orange Jesus'? Her anti-Trump book sure feels like a campaign memoir
LA Times via Yahoo News· 5 months agoIn these upside-down times, a conservative stalwart can quickly become a pariah to erstwhile allies and a profile in courage to ideological foes. No one has managed that feat more definitively ...
