The New York Times – Travel:
Barbara Kingsolver, whose Pulitzer-winning “Demon Copperhead” offered a variegated portrait of the region, guides readers through a literary landscape “as bracing and complex as a tumbling mountain creek.”
Category: Books and Literature
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For Dua Lipa, Just Being a Pop Star Isn’t Enough
The New York Times – T Magazine:
Though the singer has maintained a strict line between her music and her private life, she’s leveraging her personal passions in a bid to become a media mogul.
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A New Frontier for Travel Scammers: A.I.-Generated Guidebooks
The New York Times – Travel:
Shoddy guidebooks are flooding Amazon. Their authors claim to be renowned travel writers, but are they A.I. inventions? And how big is the problem?
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Book Review: ‘A Pocketful of Happiness,’ by Richard E. Grant
The New York Times – Film:
The Oscar-nominated actor’s new memoir is at once a Hollywood air kiss and a moving tribute to a happy marriage that ended too soon.
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Read Your Way Through Salvador
The New York Times – Travel:
The writer Itamar Vieira Junior says that to “feel the intensity of life on the streets of Salvador” in Bahia, Brazil, a reader must start with Jorge Amado.
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Apocalypse Nowish: An Octavia Butler Opera May Be Prophetic
The New York Times – Music:
Toshi Reagon and Bernice Johnson Reagon adapted Butler’s dystopian “Parable of the Sower.” Their opera makes its New York debut at Lincoln Center’s Summer for the City.
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My Unlikely Writing Teacher: Pedro Martinez
The New York Times – Sports:
Looking to a maestro on the mound to improve your writing game.