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Will Substack Go Beyond Newsletters? A Company Weighs Its Future.
There are things that the newsletter writer Kirsten Han misses about Substack. They just aren’t enough to outweigh the downsides.She…
How Jonathan Larson Taught Me to Become a Better Critic
I watched “Tick, Tick … Boom!,” Netflix’s film adaptation of the Jonathan Larson musical, four and a half times in…
Black Authors Shake Up Brazil’s Literary Scene
RIO DE JANEIRO — Itamar Vieira Júnior, whose day job working for the Brazilian government on land reform took him…
An 8-Year-Old Wrote a Book and Hid It on a Library Shelf. It’s a Hit.
For example, in “Chaptr 1,” Dillon writes, “ONe Day in wintr it wus Crismis!”In his “Crismis” tale, Dillon, the protagonist…
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…