Jon Lee Anderson is “not done with Afghanistan”, despite having reported on it for more than 40 years, through invasions, occupations, the rise and fall of the Taliban and two …
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Welcome to Great Adaptations, the Book Review’s regular multiple-choice quiz about books that have gone on to find new life as movies, television shows, theatrical productions and more. This week’s …
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The modern air-travel industry goes to great lengths to prevent passengers from having to think about what they’re doing. When everything goes right, the airlines’ practiced, cheerful funneling and cajoling, …
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Eighty years ago this week, the world passed into a terrifying new age. In Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, mushroom clouds announced that humans not only could slaughter each other in …
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Welcome to Literary Quotable Quotes, a quiz that challenges you to match a book’s memorable lines with its title. This week’s installment celebrates quotations from classic storybooks that you may …
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Dan Pelzer died earlier this year at the age of 92, leaving behind a handwritten list of all the books he’d read since 1962. His family had it digitized, put …
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Daido Moriyama: Quartet13 Images Daido Moriyama is the kind of friend who talks to you without making eye contact, according to artist Tadanori Yokoo. The Japanese photographer, who turns 87 …
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In recent years, book bans have focused a lot of attention on what some people think kids shouldn’t read in school. But what about what they should? As we head …
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