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DéLana R.A. Dameron, Writer of the Black South, Dies at 40
10 December 2025 at 01:03
An award-winning poet and writer of fiction, she moonlighted as a competitive horsewoman and owned a horse farm outside Columbia, S.C.
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Fern Michaels, Prolific Author of Romance Novels, Dies at 92
8 December 2025 at 04:03
In her 40s, the self-described New Jersey housewife started building a women’s fiction empire, churning out dozens of popular books.
Have You Listened to a Good Book Lately?
6 December 2025 at 20:00
Readers respond to a librarian who wrote that listening to a book qualifies as reading.
Olivia Nuzzi Isn’t Telling All
2 December 2025 at 14:00
Olivia Nuzzi doesn’t seem to recognize that her collaboration with Robert Kennedy was a grave professional betrayal.
How I Began to Love Reading Again
29 November 2025 at 20:00
I needed to stop thinking that I knew more than the author and give in to whatever ride they had spent years planning.
‘Hamnet’ Reimagines Shakespeare for the TikTok Generation
28 November 2025 at 18:01
Our love of his plays have led to a centuries-long fascination with the writer. So why does each new fictional iteration get his life so wrong?
Listening to a Book Counts as Reading
23 November 2025 at 14:00
We need to let go of our legacy print snobbery.
Gao Ertai: The desert flower that keeps blooming
19 August 2024 at 00:17
“Some see in his critique of the Mao era parallels to today: the arbitrary rule of an aging leader, harsh treatment of dissent, and government programs that encourage people to inform on one another.” My profile of the octogenarian essayist Gao Ertai, who lived for years in the deserts of western China and now resides in Las Vegas.
Read the article in The New Yorker online here.
Read the Chinese translation in the Boston Review of Books (波斯頓書評) here.
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