Month: April 2020

Kazan talks about her role in The Plot Against America. Maureen Corrigan recommends books to read in troubled times. Boylan calls her new book, Good Boy, a “memoir of masculinity.”

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In Lada Landscapes, photographer Thomas Marsden takes the viewer on a road trip between the Caucasus Mountains and the Caspian Sea — all with the iconic Soviet-era cars.

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When Nancy Redd was a kid, she was embarrassed by the bonnet she wore over her hair every night. “I didn’t want my daughter growing up with that same shame,” she says.

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For his new book, Witold Szablowski tracked down the chefs who fed autocrats like Pol Pot, Enver Hoxha and Idi Amin. He says the book isn’t just about food, but about how dictatorships rise and grow.

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Hendrix’s new novel, The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires, stars a group of determined women who band together to take on a suave supernatural threat in their community.

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Eugenia Viti illustrates humorous examples of pleasant things to think about as soon as you wake up before the stress stemming from the coronavirus crisis overwhelms you.

With cinema screens around the country closed and most new releases postponed, there’s no way to see new releases at the theater. Unless you are at the drive-in.

Author Bonnie Tsui reminds us that humankind once sprang from — and still seeks — water. “Even if we can’t get in the water right now,” she says, “the ocean will be waiting for us.”

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Suzanne Koven, a medical doctor and Massachusetts General Hospital’s first writer in residence, says the healthcare center is the setting for thousands of real-life stories.

Allison Janney is now starring in the HBO film Bad Education, so we’ve invited her to play a game called “Dad Education”: three questions about the wonderful things people learn from dads.

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