His research — on Adams, Truman and so much more — was deep, his writing was lively, and his narrator’s voice in documentary films was familiar to millions.
Tag: Books and Literature
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Albert Woodfox, Survivor of 42 Years in Solitary Confinement, Dies at 75
His term in solitary was perhaps the longest in American history. He described how he kept his sanity, and dignity, in an acclaimed memoir.
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Poems in Practice and in Theory
Elisa Gabbert talks about her poetry criticism and her own poems, and Ian Johnson discusses Wang Xiaobo’s novel “Golden Age.”
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Review: ‘Recreation,’ by Mitch Epstein
Between the 1970s and 1990s, the photographer captured a nation at leisure.
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Eli N. Evans, Who Wrote About Jews in American South, Dies at 85
His book “The Provincials” mixed memoir, travelogue and history to tell the story of a culture that many people never knew existed.