The book that inspired today’s playlist, the cultural critic Lucy Sante’s “I Heard Her Call My Name,” isn’t about music per se. As its subtitle attests, it is mostly “a memoir of transition,” centered ...

Though journalist Marcel Sauvage briefly touches on Josephine Baker’s later life and he hints at her work during World War II ...

Fairs and festivals, local St. Patrick's Day and Mardi Gras celebrations, and other events in Sarasota, Manatee and Charlotte counties in March.

Concert pianist Jonathan Biss opens up about living with anxiety that led to full-blown panic attacks in the past ...

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Alba de Céspedes’s book, a coming-of-age novel following eight ... is a novel by the screenwriter of the 1971 movie of the same name -- the first to be called “folk horror” In Baker ...

In 1967, a team including Jean-Paul Sartre put the US ‘on trial’ for its actions in Vietnam. Clive Webb’s Vietdamned surveys their efforts ...

It’s a Friday night and a frisson of anticipation ripples through the Sydney Opera House Concert Hall. A bumper crowd has turned out to witness the endurance test that is about to unfold for the ...

It begins with a little-known fact. There was a time when there were not three paragraphs in the prayer we call the Shema, ...

Second Story Books isn’t just any bookstore. It’s a bibliophile’s paradise, a literary wonderland where you can lose yourself ...

Half Price Books in Clive, Iowa, is a massive used bookstore where book lovers can browse for hours, uncovering everything ...

During the pandemic, Sir Stephen Hough, the renowned British pianist and composer, received an email from a film director in ...