What Joan Didion’s broken Hollywood can teach us about our own

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2024-04-08/joan-didion-play-it-as-it-lays-no-1-best-hollywood-books

Two nights before the attack, Salman Rushdie dreamed he was stabbed onstage

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‘The Sympathizer’ is a tense black comedy that’s also a moving story about friendship

HBO’s adaptation of Viet Thanh Nguyen’s Pulitzer Prize-winning post-Vietnam novel is the portrait of a divided people and a divided person.

https://apple.news/AyB18IeBmQOG3sOOEI9IOUA

 

‘Teenagers are exhausting’: Teacher and author Carol Atherton on why her profession deserves more respect

Amy Fleming

The Head of English at a Lincolnshire secondary school discusses the crisis in education and her mission to make literature live for a new generation

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/apr/05/teenagers-are-exhausting-teacher-and-author-carol-atherton-on-why-her-profession-deserves-more-respect

  

On the Lower East Side, a corporate 'fixer' honors his Jewish roots with a unique, NYC-centric bookstore

https://apple.news/AnSHjRWBiQdS6b439f0AE-g

 

The Davenport Sisters Are The Founders Of The First Black Food Bookstore

https://apple.news/AfelqY_03ReuCFpVoaf7dcQ