Tag: Writing and Writers

For a Ukrainian Poet, Putin’s War Is All Too Familiar

LVIV, Ukraine — At 83, no longer a young poet, Ihor Kalynets…

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Samuel L. Jackson and Walter Mosley Team Up for a Sci-Fi Fable

Samuel L. Jackson made his name in the movies, Walter Mosley in…

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They Are Fans of ‘Euphoria,’ but Not of Its Creator, Sam Levinson

When the finale of the second season of “Euphoria” aired Sunday evening…

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How Jonathan Larson Taught Me to Become a Better Critic

I watched “Tick, Tick … Boom!,” Netflix’s film adaptation of the Jonathan…

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Black Authors Shake Up Brazil’s Literary Scene

RIO DE JANEIRO — Itamar Vieira Júnior, whose day job working for…

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An 8-Year-Old Wrote a Book and Hid It on a Library Shelf. It’s a Hit.

For example, in “Chaptr 1,” Dillon writes, “ONe Day in wintr it…

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The Vitality of Black Criticism

The way he was able to bring his poetics into writing about…

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A Sherlock Holmes Mystery at the Grolier Club

This has the makings of a detective story with hints of history:…

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Joan Didion, ‘New Journalist’ Who Explored Culture and Chaos, Dies at 87

Joan Didion, whose mordant dispatches on California culture and the chaos of…

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