The New York Times – Film:
The ruins of a 2,400-year-old complex suggest that, to the Greeks of antiquity, Homer’s protagonist was not just a character in a poem but a figure of genuine devotion.
Category: Books and Literature
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Too Many Books?
The New York Times – Fashion & Style:
Mendel Uminer faced a crisis when his landlord objected to the 10,000 volumes in his New York studio apartment.
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A Poet for Everyone, Even Those Who Don’t Read Poetry
The New York Times – Film:
The film “Mary Oliver: Saved by the Beauty of the World” works best when it illuminates her work, whose fans include Stephen Colbert and Oprah Winfrey.
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Mara Brock Akil Finds a New ‘Muse’ in ‘The Revelation of Dionne Daphne’
The New York Times – Fashion & Style:
She’s been creating layered Black women for TV since “Girlfriends” in the early 2000s. In her debut novel, she raises the stakes for yet another one.
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With ‘Girls Like Girls,’ Hayley Kiyoko Turns Her Teenage Pain Into Art
The New York Times – Music:
The once-closeted star has reinvented her song “Girls Like Girls” as a best-selling Y.A. novel and a new theatrical film. It wasn’t easy.
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What Do Some of the Trendiest Books Have in Common? A Wolfgang Tillmans Photograph.
The New York Times – Fashion & Style:
The work of Wolfgang Tillmans helps turn esoteric, sometimes experimental books into best-sellers — and covetable objets d’art.
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James Bradley, Co-Author of ‘Flags of Our Fathers,’ Dies at 72
The New York Times – Film:
His best-selling book celebrated the servicemen in the stirring photograph of the U.S. flag-raising on Iwo Jima. One, it was long believed, was his father.
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Danny Simmons, Painter and Activist From a Creative Family, Dies at 72
The New York Times – Fashion & Style:
The older brother of the music mogul Russell Simmons and the rapper Joseph Simmons, he made his own way as an artistic and entrepreneurial force in Brooklyn.