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Tag: Books and Literature

Fashion Photography: From Edgy to Excess

Helmut Newton and Guy Bourdin revolutionized fashion photography from the late 1960s through the ’70s with sexy pictures that were kinky and edgy. They...

Best Art Books of 2022

Lots of NFT art collections nose-dived in this year’s crypto crash, but a well-stocked library will never lose its value. Museums, galleries and art...

2022 Best Wine (and Whisky) Books

‘Drinking With the Valkyries: Writings on Wine’ by Andrew JeffordFor years Andrew Jefford has been one of the English language’s most thoughtful writers and...

Michelle Obama’s Fashion Declaration of Independence

When is a book tour not just a book tour? When it is a platform for the refashioning, literally, of a major public figure...

How Ralph Ellison’s World Became Visible

Judging the photographs of an artist who is not primarily a photographer raises a prickly question. Are you assessing the photos on their own...

How Peter Asher, a Jack-of-all-Trades in Music, Mastered Them All

In the mid-2000s, after spending time as an executive at Sony Music, then taking on more high-profile management clients including Courtney Love and Pamela...

Julie Powell, Food Writer Known for ‘Julie & Julia,’ Dies at 49

As a child, her brother said, Ms. Powell was both bookish and dramatic.“She loved to be onstage, and loved just being over the top...

Steve Keene Made 300,000 Paintings in a Home Full of Easels

When the artist Steve Keene and his wife, Starling Keene, an architect, spent $140,000 on a dilapidated former auto body shop to live in,...

Lee Child on Storytelling

Then came Nov. 4, 2001, a Sunday, 54 days after Sept. 11. Initially I had been as devastated and upset by the attacks as...

An Inscrutable Monarch, Endlessly Scrutinized Onstage and Onscreen

She was the most opaque of celebrities, a silent film star somehow thriving in a TikTok world. If no one except her closest friends...

The Role of Art in a Time of War

KYIV, Ukraine — You do not have to go far outside of Kyiv to see how the massacre of civilians and the trampling of...

A Taste for Cannibalism?

An image came to Chelsea G. Summers: a boyfriend, accidentally on purpose hit by a car, some quick work with a corkscrew and his...

Why Is It So Hard to Adapt Jane Austen? Fans Play a Part.

Few authors (leaving aside Shakespeare, always a special case) have had their works reimagined as frequently, or as liberally, as Jane Austen. Onstage, onscreen...

Dana Canedy, Publisher of Simon & Schuster’s Flagship Imprint, Has Left the Job

Ms. Canedy and Jonathan Karp, Simon & Schuster’s chief executive, stood by the acquisition of Mr. Pence’s book as a crucial account of the...

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