William Langewiesche, a magazine writer and author who forged complex narratives with precision-tooled prose that shed fresh light on national security, the occupation of Iraq and,...
In 2018, the British journalist Dom Phillips joined a 17-day expedition into the Javari Valley, a vast, nearly inaccessible Indigenous land on the western edge of...
Barbara Holdridge, who co-founded the first commercially successful spoken-word record label, one that began with the poet Dylan Thomas reciting his story “A Child’s Christmas in...
Welcome to Lit Trivia, the Book Review’s regular quiz about literary culture. This week’s installment salutes the tenacity of the literary strivers who worked a variety...
When I met the writer Amy Larocca at a cafe in the Boerum Hill neighborhood of Brooklyn on a recent afternoon, I could not help but...
The volumes were originally issued by the publishing arm of Comics & Comix, a retailer in Berkeley, and later by Bud Plant, a founder of Comics...
Welcome to the Poetry Challenge A poem can lift the spirits and nourish the soul. This week, let’s all learn one together! The Poetry Challenge See...
Welcome to the Poetry Challenge A poem can lift the spirits and nourish the soul. This week, let’s all learn one together! The Poetry Challenge See...
Welcome to the Poetry Challenge A poem can lift the spirits and nourish the soul. This week, let’s all learn one together! The Poetry Challenge See...
Mr. Mudimbe was unapologetic. “To the question ‘what is Africa?’ or ‘how to define African cultures?’ one today cannot but refer to a body of knowledge...
