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In Peru, Courts ‘Used Like Whips’ to Silence Journalists
The police raided a reporter’s house after he investigated an elite Catholic society. A court ordered journalists’ assets frozen following…
A Sherlock Holmes Mystery at the Grolier Club
This has the makings of a detective story with hints of history: Why did Sir Arthur Conan Doyle sign a…
Joan Didion, ‘New Journalist’ Who Explored Culture and Chaos, Dies at 87
Joan Didion, whose mordant dispatches on California culture and the chaos of the 1960s established her as a leading exponent…
Reveling in the Joys of Books, and Reading, at a Baghdad Book Fair
BAGHDAD — Protesters in Baghdad hold a sit-in demanding that U.S. troops leave Iraq. Counterterrorism troops patrol streets. A federal…
bell hooks, Pathbreaking Black Feminist, Dies at 69
“I think of bell hooks as being pivotal to an entire generation of Black feminists who saw that for the…
Anne Rice, Who Spun Gothic Tales of Vampires, Dies at 80
When she was 15 her mother died; she said she believed the cause was alcoholism, something Ms. Rice would struggle…