Alexandra Jacobs

2 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Alexandra Jacobs |Lynne Tillman

"Thrilled to Death" collects many of Lynne Tillman's spiky short stories, where dreams tell the truth and glamour mingles with the mundane. When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. THRILLED TO DEATH: Selected Stories, by Lynne TillmanLynne Tillman is an emissary from a vanishing literary culture that you want to describe as "downtown," regardless of where she actually lives.

1 month ago | flipboard.com | Alexandra Jacobs

Paul McCartney makes shocking confession about The Beatles in secretly recorded chatWhen Paul McCartney and John Lennon met as teenagers, John assumed the leadership role in what would eventually become The Beatles. However, following …

1 month ago | flipboard.com | Alexandra Jacobs

Agencies thats have criticized the ruling BJP party have been targetedMerely a few months after the Constitution of India came into effect in 1949, …

Jan 19, 2025 | nytimes.com | Alexandra Jacobs

Y2K: How the 2000s Became Everything (Essays on the Future That Never Was), by Colette ShadeNow that cultural and political analysts have thoroughly dry-pulped the 1990s, it is time to consider more recent history. Y2K was the quaint-seeming, almost biblical fear that computer systems would be scrambled by the switch over from the 20th century to the 21st, causing planes to fall from the sky and banks to fail.

Jan 11, 2025 | nytimes.com | Alexandra Jacobs

THE WOMAN WHO KNEW EVERYONE: The Power of Perle Mesta, Washington's Most Famous Hostess, by Meryl GordonThe iPhone can feel like a Oujia board. I typed "Perle Mesta" into a text message and the words were immediately rendered in ALL CAPS. Spooked, I tried again with a few other weirdly spelled proper names, but only hers produced this assertive autocorrect. Somewhere the spirit of Mesta, who died in 1975 at 92 (nine years older than what was widely reported), is chortling.