David Balfe never thought the public would hear his deeply personal debut album. But it became a runaway success in his native Ireland.David Balfe never…
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Late Night Is Tickled by Trump’s Pants
“You know, usually if you got this close to Trump’s crotch, he’d pay you $130,000,” Jimmy Kimmel joked of rumors that the former president had…
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A time-traveling feline helps solve a Renaissance art mystery in “Da Vinci’s Cat,” by Catherine Gilbert Murdock.A time-traveling feline helps solve a Renaissance art mystery…
View More The Cat Came Back — All the Way From 16th-Century RomeErin Entrada Kelly Draws (Literally) From Her Life in a New Illustrated Middle Grade Series
A Filipino American girl who’s afraid of falling tackles the tree in her new backyard in “Maybe Maybe Marisol Rainey.”A Filipino American girl who’s afraid…
View More Erin Entrada Kelly Draws (Literally) From Her Life in a New Illustrated Middle Grade SeriesRichard Robinson Dies at 84; Turned Scholastic Into an Empire
With help from Harry Potter, the Magic School Bus and the Baby-Sitters Club, he created the largest publisher and distributor of children’s books.With help from…
View More Richard Robinson Dies at 84; Turned Scholastic Into an EmpireHow Lin-Manuel Miranda and Friends Made an Old Bookstore New
The century-old Drama Book Shop in Manhattan struggled for years. Then “Hamilton” happened.The century-old Drama Book Shop in Manhattan struggled for years. Then “Hamilton” happened.Read…
View More How Lin-Manuel Miranda and Friends Made an Old Bookstore New‘Bill’s 44th’ Review: Where Are All the Party People?
This poignant, comic puppet play, by Dorothy James and Andy Manjuck, is as much about the ingenuity of the mind as it is about loneliness.This…
View More ‘Bill’s 44th’ Review: Where Are All the Party People?In Her New Memoir, Ursula M. Burns Recounts Blazing a Trail to the Top of Xerox
Burns, the first Black female C.E.O. of a Fortune 500 company, tells her story in “Where You Are Is Not Who You Are.”Burns, the first…
View More In Her New Memoir, Ursula M. Burns Recounts Blazing a Trail to the Top of XeroxBook Review: ‘Dear Senthuran,’ by Akwaeke Emezi
“Dear Senthuran” is an epistolary memoir of gender identity, diaspora and the solitude of success.“Dear Senthuran” is an epistolary memoir of gender identity, diaspora and…
View More Book Review: ‘Dear Senthuran,’ by Akwaeke EmeziShe Was Deeply Moved by Refugees’ Stories. So She Told Them in Song.
“Song to a Refugee,” an inadvertent concept album from the singer and songwriter Diana Jones, strives to center the voices of migrant women.“Song to a…
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