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Despite praise for Steven Spielberg: A Life in Films – an assignment journalist Molly Haskell accepted for Yale University Press’s Jewish Lives series,…
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It’s been said that if there are raised letters on the jacket cover and the pages have a ragged, hand-cut look, the book’s important. Of course, that…
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The name “Tim Ferriss” meant little to me until his father, a friend, showed me some magazine articles with his son on the cover, noting, proudly, that…
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Toward the end of his adoring tribute to Mary Astor, the villainess star of The Maltese Falcon, the famous cartoonist Edward Sorel explains his…
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The door to hell stands under a fluorescent light in an alley in Queens. The devil himself showed me. This is how Ricardo Henriquez begins his first…
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Despite its odd title, The Huntress is not about hunting, though Alicia Patterson was an excellent shot and a superb horsewoman. What it is, is a…
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It’s blustery cold, gets dark early, and has been a challenging political season – a perfect storm that suggests it just might be the time to settle in…
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In Avid Reader, an autobiographical account of his long life in editing and publishing, 85-year-old Robert Gottlieb says in a prefatory note that he…
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Glow Kids by Dr. Nicholas Kardaras, a neuropsychologist and a leading addiction expert, is a scary book. But it’s an important one, especially if there…
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An East Hampton art and landscape treasure is about to celebrate a silver anniversary, and in anticipation, its founding father, the internationally known…