E L James, whose new book, “Freed,” continues the “Fifty Shades” story from the man’s perspective, talks about spicy romances, joining Clubhouse and reconnecting with Christian and Anastasia.
Nikole Hannah-Jones, a creator of the 1619 Project who is scheduled to start as a professor at the university this summer, has retained lawyers to represent her in a dispute over tenure.
Liju Cherian@lijucherianomanFROM her six visits to the Sultanate starting from 1999, veteran Swiss journalist has gone back with deep impression of the Sultanate and the progress achieved in all fields.Helene Aecherli from Zurich focuses on societal developments, gender and human rights issues. As a researcher and public speaker, she was awarded ‘Reporter.
Lionel Shriver Warns Readers Not to Meet Their Favorite Authors
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May 27, 2021
“The warts-and-all version is almost always a disappointment, and they risk a retroactive taint,” says the novelist, whose forthcoming book is “Should We Stay or Should We Go.”
What books are on your night stand?
Two books to prime for my next novel: Eric Hoffer’s “The True Believer” and Charles Mackay’s “Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds.” One exercise in reverse research writing the novel first and then doing the homework: Katie Engelhart’s “The Inevitable,” about end-of-life suicide. Finally, mercifully, fiction: Ewan Morrison’s “How to Survive Everything,” which sounds like an antidote to the Engelhart.
âSwimming Out Till the Sea Turns Blueâ Review: China Through Writersâ Eyes
Jia Zhangkeâs documentary illuminates a vast and complicated history in a series of intimate conversations.
The writer Liang Hong in a scene from âSwimming Out Till the Sea Turns Blue,â a documentary by Jia Zhangke.Credit.Cinema Guild
Swimming Out Till the Sea Turns Blue
Directed by Zhangke Jia
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The films of Jia Zhangke, documentary and fictional, zoom in on the granular details of individual lives. At the same time, they are chapters in the single, unimaginably complicated story of Chinaâs transformation in the decades since the 1949 revolution. Jia, who was born in 1970, tends to dwell in the recent past, and to circle back to Shanxi, the part of northern China where he grew up, but heâs also attentive to the continuities of history and geography, the c