The New York Times – Music:
Three authors helped Britney Spears get her life story on the page.
Category: Books and Literature
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The Met Opera Puts On a Malcolm X Marathon
The New York Times – Music:
Ahead of its new production of Anthony Davis’s “X,” the house hosted a starry, 18-hour reading of Malcolm X’s autobiography.
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Watching Britney Spears, as a Girl and a Woman
The New York Times – Music:
For 25 years, American culture has used her body to determine a woman’s worth. In “The Woman in Me,” she asks us to take a second look.
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Rock Brynner, Son of Hollywood Royalty Who Cut His Own Path, Dies at 76
The New York Times – Music:
The only male child of the actor Yul Brynner, he built a peripatetic career as a writer, historian, novelist, playwright — and roadie for the Band.
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Natalie Zemon Davis, Historian of the Marginalized, Dies at 94
The New York Times – Film:
She wrote of peasants, unsung women, border crossers and, most popularly, Martin Guerre, a 16th-century village impostor recalled in a 1980s movie.