Mad Men to Flowers in the Attic

Mad Men actress cast in film adaptation of the controversial best selling book Flowers in the Attic. Continue reading at 'BBC News'

[ BBC News | 2013-08-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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‘Goodfellas’ turned 30 this year. ‘Made Men’ explores its lasting influence.

Martin Scorsese’s 1990 film was far from a surefire hit, but it cemented his legacy. Continue reading at The Washington Post

[ The Washington Post | 2020-09-24 12:03:35 UTC ]
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In Emma Cline’s story collection, ‘Daddy,’ flawed men reap what they sow

As in “The Girls,” Cline’s wit is on point and her writing is evocative and seductive. Continue reading at The Washington Post

[ The Washington Post | 2020-09-04 08:54:40 UTC ]
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Herring to take on International Men’s Day in new book

Sphere has acquired The Problem with Men: When is International Men’s Day—and Why it Matters, from writer and comedian Richard Herring. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-07-20 11:21:21 UTC ]
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Yale UP snaps up English translation of Lévy’s The Virus in the Age of Madness

Yale University Press will publish the English translation of Bernard-Henri Lévy’s The Virus in the Age of Madness.  Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-07-02 02:19:04 UTC ]
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Decade-long study shows why South Africa needs to stop stereotyping young black men

Young black men are often viewed through a criminal lens. A new book based on an 11-year-long study of adolescent men in a South African township upends the stereotypes. Continue reading at The Conversation

[ The Conversation | 2020-06-15 15:08:26 UTC ]
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He was one of the most hunted men on Earth — and then he disappeared

Steven Johnson recounts the tale of pirate Henry Every, who terrorized the Indian Ocean. Continue reading at The Washington Post

[ The Washington Post | 2020-05-29 12:00:00 UTC ]
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Bloomsbury Absolute bags Kerridge's Hand & Flowers cookbook

Bloomsbury Absolute has bagged a cookbook from Tom Kerridge featuring recipes from his two Michelin-starred pub, the Hand & Flowers. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-02-20 20:14:56 UTC ]
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Sexism and Genius Collide ‘In the Land of Men’

Adrienne Miller’s memoir chronicles her tenure as fiction editor of Esquire in the 1990s and her rocky relationship with David Foster Wallace, the era’s iconic novelist. Continue reading at The New York Times

[ The New York Times | 2020-02-11 10:00:07 UTC ]
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All the president’s crooked men

Journalists Joe Palazzolo and Michael Rothfeld present a rogue’s gallery of Trump’s associates. Continue reading at The Washington Post

[ The Washington Post | 2020-01-17 00:55:51 UTC ]
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Nipsey Hussle was a bookworm. Now black men are finding inspiration in what he read

Once a month, black men come together for The Marathon Book Club — founded to read the books that inspired Nipsey Hussle, who was killed in South L.A. in March. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times

[ Los Angeles Times | 2020-01-05 14:00:49 UTC ]
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Lonely White Men: On Michel Houellebecq’s “Serotonin”

FRANCES’S MICHEL HOUELLEBECQ leads something of a double career. A novelist of Prix Goncourt–winning distinction, Houellebecq is also his country’s best-selling author abroad and, on many accounts, currently its best. He is also reliably a prophet of current events: his third novel, Platform,... Continue reading at Los Angeles Review of Books

[ Los Angeles Review of Books | 2019-11-12 13:30:31 UTC ]
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Florida men deny smalltown library access to the New York Times online, citing “fake news.”

The bullpen of the 1993 San Diego Padres Citrus County Commission (pictured above) has denied funding to county libraries for digital subscriptions to the New York Times. Led by left-handed middle-reliever area man Scott Carnahan, the commission (comprised of Scott, Jeff, Ron, Jimmie, and Brian)... Continue reading at Literrary Hub

[ Literrary Hub | 2019-11-05 16:08:55 UTC ]
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Of moles and men: A memoir about the virtue of letting nature alone

Marc Hamer probes the essence of nature, solitude, and the accommodations we make between deeply held beliefs and our everyday behavior. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor

[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2019-09-30 21:10:04 UTC ]
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Of moles and men: A memoir about the virtue of letting nature alone

Marc Hamer probes the essence of nature, solitude, and the accommodations we make between deeply held beliefs and our everyday behavior. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor

[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2019-09-30 21:10:04 UTC ]
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Of moles and men: A memoir about the virtue of letting nature alone

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[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2019-09-30 21:10:04 UTC ]
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What do old tales of exorcism and murder say about how men see women now? Not much.

Sady Doyle collects hideous examples of mistreated women to shed light on modern relationships between the sexes. Continue reading at The Washington Post

[ The Washington Post | 2019-09-27 02:23:01 UTC ]
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A robot read 3.5 million books to find we describe women by appearance, and men by virtue.

Researchers have used machine-learning (a reading robot!) to read 3.5 million books published between 1900 and 2008, and tally all the adjectives used to describe men and women. Not surprisingly, women in books are beautiful and men are true-hearted! Yup, when positively described, women (or... Continue reading at Literrary Hub

[ Literrary Hub | 2019-08-28 13:30:07 UTC ]
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A Prohibition story of money, madness and murder

Karen Abbott tells the tale of a fabulously wealthy bootlegger and his unfaithful wife. Continue reading at The Washington Post

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Eight men, one chaotic election and the birth of the modern primary system

Aram Goudsouzian explains how the 1968 campaign upended the power of party leaders. Continue reading at The Washington Post

[ The Washington Post | 2019-07-18 13:58:57 UTC ]
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Mira Jacob Recommends 5 Inspiring Books That Aren’t By Men

It doesn’t feel like an exaggeration to say that Mira Jacob’s latest book Good Talk is a blueprint for a kinder world. In this graphic memoir, Jacob details a lifetime of difficult conversations—about politics, about race, about love and relationships. Seeing her handle these tricky talks,... Continue reading at Electric Literature

[ Electric Literature | 2019-07-18 11:00:20 UTC ]
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