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At last, a midlife-crisis novel that's not about a man
Los Angeles Times Opinion via Yahoo News· 4 days agoIn the mid to late 20th century, literary lions such as Saul Bellow, John Updike and Philip Roth wrote fat novels about domestic life and American masculinity ...
What to read about dictatorship in America
The Economist· 4 days agoNOVELISTS HAVE long imagined, and warned of, the threat to liberal places from totalitarian rule. British writers of the 20th century, including George...
‘Spectateurs! ’ Debuts Trailer Ahead of Cannes Special Screenings Premiere (EXCLUSIVE)
Variety via AOL· 5 days agoArnaud Desplechin’s hybrid documentary “Spectateurs!” (“Filmlovers”) debuted a first trailer ahead...
Nobel Prize Winning Author Alice Munro Dead at 92
The Daily Beast via Yahoo News· 5 days agoJulien Behal - PA ImagesAlice Munro took Flaubert’s suggestion to “be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your...
Today in History: May 22, Lyndon B. Johnson outlines 'Great Society'
Stamford Advocate· 6 days agoToday is Wednesday, May 22, the 143rd day of 2024. There are 223 days left in the year. On May 22, 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson, speaking at the University of Michigan, outlined the goals ...
Yes, Women Have Midlife Crises, Too
The Wall Street Journal· 3 days agoMiranda July was 45 when she realized that she knew little about what was happening—and what was about to happen—to her body. And in the years that July...
Alice Munro, a Literary Alchemist Who Made Great Fiction From Humble Lives
New York Times· 5 days agoThe Nobel Prize-winning author specialized in exacting short stories that were novelistic in scope,...
