Laura Miller

Maine, New York

Books and Culture Columnist at Slate

Books and culture columnist for Slate. laura dot miller at slate dot com Chatelaine

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E. Jean Carroll’s Book Is Like No Survivor Memoir You’ve Ever Read

1 week ago | slate.com | Laura Miller

Books By When E. Jean Carroll stepped into a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room in 1996, she epitomized a certain flavor of late-20th-century Manhattan. She’d gumptioned her way from a childhood in flyover country to a journalism career. Her origin story is inspiring: At 38, in a shed in Montana, she’d scrutinized a photo of Fran Lebowitz talking on an old dial phone in Vogue magazine.
Apple TV’s New Thriller Stars Sydney Sweeney, Julianne Moore, and an Outlandish Twist

2 weeks ago | slate.com | Laura Miller

Movies By It’s all too easy to hate Claire, the character played by Sydney Sweeney in Echo Valley, Apple TV+’s new thriller, written by Brad Ingelsby (creator of Mare of Easttown) and directed by Michael Pearce. Claire’s mother, Kate (Julianne Moore), who dotes on her, trains horses on a farm in the fabulously lush Pennsylvania countryside.
Apple TV’s New Thriller Stars Sydney Sweeney, Julianne Moore, and an Outlandish Twist

2 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Laura Miller

It’s all too easy to hate Claire, the character played by Sydney Sweeney in Echo Valley, Apple TV+’s new thriller, written by Brad Ingelsby (creator of Mare of Easttown) and directed by Michael Pearce. Claire’s mother, Kate (Julianne Moore), who dotes on her, trains horses on a farm in the fabulously lush Pennsylvania countryside.
This Part of the U.S. Was a Hotbed of Serial Killers in the 1970s. One Writer Thinks She’s Figured Out Why.

2 weeks ago | slate.com | Laura Miller

Books By Growing up on Washington state’s Mercer Island in the 1960s and ’70s, the writer Caroline Fraser got used to hearing people puzzle over why the Pacific Northwest was such a hotbed of infamous serial killers. From Ted Bundy to Gary Ridgway, aka the Green River Killer, these criminals seemed to be a mysterious product of a particular place and time, but why?
After 50 Years, Stephen King Has Finally Found His Great Hero

4 weeks ago | slate.com | Laura Miller

Skip to the content Books By Name a Stephen King character, without checking a bookshelf or Google. Perhaps Jack Torrance springs to mind, if you also happen to be a blocked writer, or the eponymous Carrie—although, can you remember her last name?
The New Netflix Show From the Writer-Director of The Queen’s Gambit Is Gorgeous, Well Acted, and Stupid

4 weeks ago | slate.com | Laura Miller

Television By This article contains spoilers for Netflix’s Dept. Q. Thrillers and murder mysteries often get knocked for neglecting character and style in favor of plot, but the opposite is the case with the new Netflix series Dept. Q, based on a series of books by the Danish crime novelist Jussi Adler-Olsen. Created by Scott Frank—whose adaptation of Walter Tevis’ The Queen’s Gambitapplied the same elegant attention to a far superior novel—Dept.
Proto by Laura Spinney is a revelatory history of human language.

1 month ago | slate.com | Laura Miller

Books By The most successful version of the most powerful tool humanity has ever created was born in a place where war now rages. That tool is human language, without which we would never have achieved the social organization and transmission of knowledge that have made us masters of the planet.
Fidelity rules three funds failed to provide value to investors

1 month ago | investmentweek.co.uk | Laura Miller

The three funds are the £168m Fidelity America, the £89m Fidelity Europe (ex UK) and the £428m Fidelity Japan. About all three, Fidelity said in its report: "This fund has not demonstrated value for investors. The board is reviewing." Each fund failed in the same assessment category, that of investment performance.
Fitch downplays positive turn of US-China tariff de-escalation

1 month ago | investmentweek.co.uk | Laura Miller

On Monday (12 May) in Geneva, the Joint Statement on US-China Economic and Trade Meeting suspended the 34% reciprocal rate the US imposed on Chinese imports on 2 April for 90 days, and cancelled the subsequent escalation in the reciprocal rate to 125% it announced on 8-9 April. Analysts at Fitch said the move "appears to be a significant de-escalation", but issued strong caveats.
7IM promotes two to executive committee in growth drive

1 month ago | investmentweek.co.uk | Laura Miller

Harriet Massie has been promoted to chief transformation officer. She has been with the firm since 2017 and most recently served as transformation director. At the same time, Chris Phillips, previously chief transformation officer, who joined 7IM in 2019, will move into the newly created role of chief value officer. Both roles take effect from 1 June and report directly to chief executive Dean Proctor.

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