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Memoir
Anthony Hopkins’s Beckettian Memoir
Hamlet, to say the least, was in a similar pickle, and it’s almost comically appropriate that Hopkins’s memoir should be so…
The Muscular Compassion of “Paper Girl”
In her new book, Beth Macy returns to her home town of Urbana, Ohio, using it as a ground zero for understanding right-wing…
Tim Curry Does the Time Warp
It does feel kind of like a play. Even people who haven’t seen it know Madeline Kahn’s “flames on the side of my face” speech. What was…
A Memoir of Working-Class Britain Wrings Playfulness from Pain
The escape from working-class life has good narrative pedigree, a classic form—beginning with the idea of escape itself. It’s something…
James Frey’s New Cancelled-Guy Sex Novel Is as Bad as It Sounds
The author page of “Next to Heaven,” James Frey’s new novel, breathlessly notes that Frey “was called America’s Most Notorious Author by…
Catherine Lacey’s Infinite Regress
A Möbius strip, a looped surface with a single continuous side, is often formed by cutting a long, thin piece of paper and joining its…
Barbra Streisand on “The Secret of Life”
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Author of explosive Meta memoir stars at US Senate hearing, details Zuckerberg working with China
The former Facebook employee behind a scathing book about parent company Meta on Wednesday alleged that the social networking giant…