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1 week ago | 
nytimes.com | Rhoda Feng
You have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When we have confirmed access, the full article content will load. Critic’s NotebookTwo shows attempt to make sense of the gonzo journalist and Lincoln’s assassin, cultural figures forever intertwined with American history. Listen to this article · 6:12 min Learn moreEric William Morris and other cast members in “The Untitled Unauthorized Hunter S.
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3 weeks ago | 
thenation.com | Rhoda Feng
Reclaiming Language: A Conversation With Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’oThe Nation spoke with the Kenyan novelist, essayist, and playwright—before his death—about his most recent essay collection Decolonizing Language and Other Revolutionary Ideas.
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1 month ago | 
nytimes.com | Rhoda Feng
In Michael Breslin and Patrick Foley's fizzy new musical, an internet sleuth searches for a pop star wannabe who went missing along with her low-rise jeans. The Last Bimbo of the ApocalypseNYT Critic's Pick The image is instantly familiar: Paris Hilton, Lindsay Lohan and Britney Spears crammed into a car, caught in a paparazzi flash, on the cover of The New York Post.
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1 month ago | 
bostonglobe.com | Rhoda Feng
In “Things in Nature Merely Grow,” Yiyun Li writes from a terrain no one chooses to map. Her spare memoir confronts the suicide of her younger son James in 2024, six years and four months after her older son Vincent ended his life. Vincent was 16 when he died in 2017; James was 19. Both died near their home in Princeton, N.J. “This book is about life’s extremities, about facts and logic, written from a particularly abysmal place where no parent would want to be,” notes Li early on in her new book.
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1 month ago | 
libertiesjournal.com | Rhoda Feng
Jamieson Webster treats psychoanalysis not as a static body of knowledge but as something to be tested, stretched, and reimagined. A practicing analyst, she is also a professor, writer, and public intellectual whose work pushes the field beyond the consulting room. She has collaborated with artists, written for general audiences, and even performed in plays.
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1 month ago | 
the-tls.co.uk | Rhoda Feng
To access over 1000 book reviews, essays and more, subscribe hereFirst thought, best thoughtAn essay collection with strict parameters The forty-two essays that Tom McAllister wrote for this book began as an attempt to unshackle himself from social media and its brain-rotting effects. He set strict parameters: one essay for every year he’s been alive, no substantive research, a 1,500-word limit, each draft completed in one sitting.
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2 months ago | 
artforum.com | Rhoda Feng
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2 months ago | 
newyorker.com | Rhoda Feng
The Float Test, by Lynn Steger Strong (Mariner). Four adult siblings are the central characters in this novel; after the sudden death of their mother they return to their childhood home to sort through her effects. Jude, the second youngest and the narrator, recounts everything from childhood escapades to recent disappointments, including her sister Fred’s estrangement from the family. Jenn, the oldest, takes on their father’s care, while George, the baby, mopes about his failing marriage.
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2 months ago | 
artnews.com | Rhoda Feng
When Patrick Bringley was 25, his older brother, a brilliant doctoral student, died from cancer. Reeling from the loss, Bringley decided to put his burgeoning career at the New Yorker on hold. A visit to the Philadelphia Museum of Art with his mother offered an unexpected reprieve: lingering in front of paintings, he found solace in simply being allowed to “dwell in silence.”The experience planted a seed.
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2 months ago | 
newyorker.com | Rhoda Feng
The Maverick’s Museum, by Blake Gopnik (Ecco). Albert C. Barnes was born into poverty in 1872, in Philadelphia, and went on to make a fortune as the inventor of a topical antiseptic and to amass a staggering collection of modern art. Gopnik’s animated biography chronicles Barnes’s lifelong campaign to make art accessible to the working class, a democratizing impulse that found its greatest expression in the Barnes Foundation, which opened in 1925 to display his acquisitions.
