Literature
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Book review: 'Vintage Contempoararies' an affectionate ode to '90s New York
Jan 22, 2023 6:00 am - "Vintage Contemporaries" By Dan Kois (Harper) Emily Thiel, fresh to New York City by way of college and Wausau, Wisconsin, often has her nose stuck in a ...
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Book review: Oral history of Rikers Island reveals city's failure
Jan 21, 2023 5:30 am - "Rikers: An Oral History" by Graham Rayman and Reuven Blau (Random House) In these times, when people disagree about seemingly everything, just about eve...
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Book review: The kids are still not alright in Ellis' 'The Shards'
Jan 18, 2023 5:00 am - "The Shards" by Bret Easton Ellis (Alfred A. Knopf) It's the 1980s and rich prep school students in Los Angeles are living the life of absentee parents, fancy cars,...
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Book review: Janet Malcolm's quasi-memoir on pictures and memory
Jan 10, 2023 5:00 am - "Still Pictures: On Photography and Memory" by Janet Malcolm (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) When Janet Malcolm died 18 months ago at 86, her New Yorker coll...
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'Music and More' series returns to Norris Cultural Arts CenterJan 09, 2023 10:00 pm - The Norris Cultural Arts Center recently announced a revival of its "Music and More in the Gallery" event series, including two music concerts and two historical portray...
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Book review: India's Partition riveting in deeply human debut novel
Jan 09, 2023 5:00 am - "The Book of Everlasting Things" by Aanchal Malhotra (Flatiron) Star-crossed lovers. Intoxicating scents. Old war journals containing ghosts and secrets....
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Prince Harry accuses Camilla of 'dangerous' leaks to media
Jan 09, 2023 12:00 am - LONDON - Prince Harry has accused his stepmother, Camilla, the queen consort, of leaking private conversations to the media to burnish her own reputation as he promotes ...
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Harper professor's new book looks at Illinois statehoodJan 08, 2023 10:00 pm - A lifelong passion for Illinois history, research, storytelling and teaching is embodied in the new book "Avenues of Transformation, Illinois's Path from Territory to St...
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Learn about 'Inciting Joy' with poet Ross Gay Jan. 11Jan 05, 2023 10:00 pm - Kick off your new year with a conversation about joy with best-selling essayist and award-winning poet Ross Gay. Ross will discuss his most recent collection of essays,...
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Justice Jackson working on a memoir, titled 'Lovely One'
Jan 05, 2023 12:00 am - NEW YORK - Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson is working on a memoir. Jackson, the first Black woman appointed to the court, is calling the book "Lovely One." "...