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Tributes to the late great American writer tend to overlook her ability to wrench you out of your comfort zone
An acclaimed essayist and pitiless observer of modern American life
The FT’s New York correspondent gets more than he bargained for when the conspiracy theory’s leader turns up
Griffin Dunne’s film excels at giving a sense of the writer’s careful, reserved personality
The author understands that getting dressed, like writing, is an imposition of order
Fashion houses are turning to more mature muses for added cool and extra credit
The star has stepped off the screen and into the glossies. She talks about how the fashion industry’s attitudes are changing — for the better
Tom Stoppard tied the knot in periwinkle, Prince George made royal progress in pastels and we swooned for a suave young French minister . . .
As the New York Review of Books celebrates its 50th anniversary, its editor for all those years explains why a world without long, serious reviews is ‘unthinkable’
This series of review-essays draws overlapping portraits of writers’ relationships with their families
Joan Didion remembers her daughter
A collection of short stories reveals Don DeLillo as a writer who arrived fully formed
What does it mean to be a writer? It means you try to represent what it is to be alive
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