Rick Astley memoir tackles Rickrolling, Dave Grohl
Watch Rick Astley’s reaction to the ‘Ted Lasso’ funeral scene Ahead of his slot on New Kids on the Block’s The Mixtape tour, singer Rick Astley plays ’80s trivia with…
Book Review: ‘Dark Laboratory,’ by Tao Leigh Goffe
DARK LABORATORY: On Columbus, the Caribbean, and the Origins of the Climate Crisis, by Tao Leigh Goffe The slow-motion disaster that is climate change started with our unearthing long-buried organic…
Han Kang Talks About Her Jeju Book, ‘We Do Not Part”
In Han Kang’s latest novel, a character saws off the tips of two of her fingers in a woodworking accident. Surgeons reattach them but the treatment is gruesome and agonizing.…
In African Publishing, ‘There Is a Renaissance Going On’
One sector that most publishers in Africa say is rapidly growing is children’s books. Lola Shoneyin, a novelist and the publisher of Ouida Books in Nigeria, is leading a project…
Nathalie Dupree, ‘Queen of Southern Cooking,’ Dies at 85
Nathalie Dupree, a Southern cookbook author, television personality and culinary mentor whose personal life was sometimes as messy as her kitchen, and whose keen interest in literature and politics gave…
Naomi Watts Thinks David Bowie Was Onto Something
Naomi Watts remembers being told that by the time she turned 40, her acting career would be finished. Now 56, she is fresh off a Golden Globe nomination for her…
Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, 90, Dies; Her Internment Inspired a Memoir
Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, whose memoir about living as a child in an internment camp during World War II put a personal stamp on the hysteria that led the United States…
Howard Buten, Autism Therapist, Novelist and Clown, Is Dead at 74
Howard Buten, a college dropout from Detroit, juggled three extraordinary lives. In one, he was a tender, clumsy and wordless red-nosed clown named Buffo. He sold out theaters around the…
Neko Case Has Sung Hard Truths. Now She’s Telling Hers in a Memoir.
An emotionally somnambulant year and a half later, her father just as suddenly announced that her mother was alive and, actually, they were on their way to see her just…
The Ultimate Neko Case Primer
▶ Listen on Spotify, Apple Music or YouTube 5. Neko Case: “Hold On, Hold On” When Case released her 2006 album “Fox Confessor Brings the Flood,” she described this track…