We may receive an affiliate commission from anything you buy from this article. “My Friends” (Random House), the latest novel from Hisham Matar (the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of “The Return”), imagines the life of a student wounded during a protest against Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi 40 years ago: a young …
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We may receive an affiliate commission from anything you buy from this article. In her new historical novel “Mary and the Birth of Frankenstein” (HarperVia), Dutch author Anne Eekhout recreates the fabled 1816 weekend when an 18-year-old Mary Shelley, trapped by a storm at Lord Byron’s rented Swiss estate, conjured …
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Disgraced Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein is serving a 23-year-prison sentence for rape and other acts of sexual assault – crimes first exposed in The New York Times. Journalist Ken Auletta tried to break that story in 2002 while working on a profile of Weinstein for The New Yorker magazine. “I …
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Bethlehem Steel casts a long shadow over Pennsylvania’s Lehigh Valley. The blast furnaces remain, even though they went silent more than 20 years ago. The mill’s closing took with it a big chunk of the region’s high-paying blue-collar jobs, and the news at the time made it sound very final. …
Read More »Remember walking through a crowded park on a beautiful day? Just three weeks ago, before there was no place but home, actors Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick showed “Sunday Morning” anchor Jane Pauley one of their favorite spots. “We’re in the famous, no-other-park-in-New-York-like-it Washington Square Park, the heart of …
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Check out these events around the country this coming week: NASHVILLE, TENN.: First Saturday Art Crawl (February 1) Mark your calendar for the first Saturday of every month, when art galleries throughout downtown Nashville host receptions and art openings! Over 1,000 people attend this very popular monthly event which presents …
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It was her voice and her moves that gave Tina Turner a five-decade career as one of the biggest stars in rock music, selling more than 200 million records. And the tale of the suffering and triumph of her life off-stage, famously chronicled in the Oscar-nominated film “What’s Love Got …
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Comic Kathy Griffin nearly lost her career over an incident involving political satire about President Donald Trump that many, including the president himself, thought went too far. She says she learned a lot in the aftermath, in an interview with Luke Burbank for “CBS Sunday Morning” to be broadcast March …
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On Display in New York: art from “Beyond The Walls” of a prison — which in the eyes of critics, makes it art that’s beyond the pale. Tony Dokoupil takes a look at the art … and the controversy: If you didn’t know better, “Ode to the Sea” at New …
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