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Margo Jefferson's Constructing a Nervous System has won the 2023 Rathbones Folio Prize Book of the Year, given each year for an outstanding work of English-language literature. Jefferson's memoir, which [...]

The Rathbones Folio Prize announced the shortlists for the literary award, given annually to an outstanding work of literature 'in which the subjects being explored achieve their most perfect and [...]

The American Library Association revealed the shortlists for its Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence, which 'recognize the best fiction and nonfiction books for adult readers published in the U.S. in [...]

How can you tell the singer from the song? On a good day, you can't -- so let's start with the singer. She's Cécile McLorin Salvant, a 27-year-old with an [...]

A personal narrative is presented which explores the author's experience of started teaching women writers in the early Nineties.

The article reviews the exhibition "Black Dolls" at the New-York Historical Society in New York until June 5, 2022.

Byline: Photographed by Mario Testino. B Strong Moving, morphing, leading, flaunting; such is the power of Beyoncé that just one letter tells us who she is. Margo Jefferson explores what [...]

''Don't bring us any more memoirs!'' This is the new cry in the book industry, I'm told, and a foolish cry it is, unless what publishers no longer want are [...]

There's a Civil War hymn whose refrain goes: Jesus loves the little children, All the children of the world. Red and yellow, black and white, All are precious in his [...]

I'm tired of quarrels about fiction versus what is now called creative nonfiction. Partisans of the novel claim it lets one explore human intricacies as no other form can. Advocates [...]

CAN we really keep blaming television and our image-driven culture for the decline of reading? In ''So Many Books: Reading and Publishing in an Age of Abundance'' (Paul Dry Books), [...]

I wish I hadn't read Willa Cather in high school. I was too proud of being a Chicago girl. I looked to the East, not to the small towns and [...]

A talented young playwright asked if she could go see ''Long Day's Journey Into Night'' with me. ''I've never gotten O'Neill,'' she confessed. ''Maybe I read him at the wrong [...]

Sometimes pure art is not enough. Sometimes we need more than a singular vision. Take documentary photography. We often view it in art galleries, detached from its factual base. We're [...]

''Listen to the States asserting: 'The hour has struck! . . . The U.S.A. is now grown up artistically. It is time we ceased to hang on to the skirts [...]

The article presents an essay based on the life of singer-songwriter Michael Jackson. It mentions that Jackson was accused of sexually abusing Jordan Chandler in 1993. It also mentions that Wade Robson and James Safechuck have sued the Michael Jackson estate, and in retaliation the estate has denounced them and has sued HBO.

Presents an excerpt from the October 23, 1986 issue of "Rolling Stone," which featured interview with singer Tina Turner.

Focuses on books for teen-age girls. 'Small Town Summer'; 'I'm Christy'; 'Wuthering Heights.'

IT'S easy to feel desperate about language right now. Words get maimed and flattened when we are struggling to think and feel the same way about catastrophes (murder and war), [...]

A white man sings in an all-black gospel choir, for fun and spiritual connection. A group of Mexican immigrants learns to make sushi Korean-style. A black corporate lawyer fights with [...]

A few years ago I found myself moderating a panel, all of whose participants were people of color. I no longer remember the topic. I do remember that each of [...]

Nat King Cole By Daniel Mark Epstein. Illustrated. 438 pp. New York: Fararr, Straus & Giroux. $27. THERE was a time when, asked if you liked Nat (King) Cole, you [...]

Chimpanzees seem to be the only creatures, besides us humans, able to recognize themselves in a mirror, to be two things at once, the observer and the observed. Some will [...]

Mommy Dressing A Love Story, After a Fashion. By Lois Gould. Illustrated. 261 pp. New York: Anchor Books/Doubleday. $22.95. TAKE a woman whose mother died giving birth to her, whose [...]

DOO-DAH! Stephen Foster and the Rise of American Popular Culture. By Ken Emerson. Illustrated. 400 pp. New York: Simon & Schuster. $30. Popular music exists to make everything we hold [...]

1917-1996 Called the First Lady of Song, Fitzgerald practically invented scat and helped establish the popular standard as an art form. She performed into the 1990's despite the diabetes that [...]

DAYS OF GRACE A Memoir. By Arthur Ashe and Arnold Rampersad. Illustrated. 336 pp. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. $24. ARTHUR ASHE died on Feb. 6 at the age of [...]

PUSH COMES TO SHOVE An Autobiography. By Twyla Tharp. Illustrated. 376 pp. New York: Linda Grey/ Bantam Books. $24.50. CALL them the Three Fates, the Three Graces or the Three [...]

THE BEAUTY MYTH How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women. By Naomi Wolf. 348 pp. New York: William Morrow & Company. $21.95. I am gazing at a glossy, full-color, [...]

LEAD: SLIM Memories of a Rich and Imperfect Life. By Slim Keith with Annette Tapert. Illustrated. 319 pp. New York: Simon & Schuster. $22.95. SLIM Memories of a Rich and [...]