Sarah Begley

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Behind the Scenes of The Goldfinch, a Rare and Delicate Hollywood Specimen

On a March day on New York city’s Upper East Side, producers huddle on the narrow first floor of an art gallery, studying their monitors and surrounded by pictures of flora and fauna. Eagles and...

By Sarah Begley

Bill Gates Says This Book Is 'One of the Most Important' He's Ever Read

"Hans believed the world was making remarkable progress, and he wanted everyone to know about it."

By Sarah Begley

6 Books to Read in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s Death

From broad biographies to niche studies of elements of his life

By Sarah Begley

9 Questions With Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith

The poet laureate's new collection, Wade in the Water, deals with race, love and the Civil War

By Sarah Begley

New Novels Take On the Reality of School Shootings

Maybe you don’t want to read a novel about a school shooting; many people wouldn’t. But if you are open, or even eager, to see how fiction can process one of the more painful elements...

By Sarah Begley

The House of Broken Angels Is a Love Song to the Mexican-American Family

When the novelist Luis Alberto Urrea was 14 or 15, he took a trip deep into Mexico. He was born in Tijuana to a Mexican father and a white American mother before moving just across...

By Sarah Begley

Sessions Blasts California's Sanctuary Laws as 'Radical'

"California, we have a problem."

By Sarah Begley

What Exactly Is a Nor'easter? The Powerful Storm With a Strange Name Is Currently Pummeling the East Coast

The name alone might make you shiver in your boots

By Sarah Begley

Marilynne Robinson on What It Means to Be a Christian in Trump's America

Marilynne Robinson is a dissident, though she may not sound like one. The 74-year-old Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and acclaimed essayist has made a peaceable career of rejecting commonly held opinions to look for a deeper...

By Sarah Begley

What to Know about Edward Stack, the CEO of Dick's Sporting Goods

On Wednesday, Dick's Sporting Goods CEO Edward Stack announced the company would no longer sell assault-style rifles at any of its stores

By Sarah Begley

'How Many More Do I Have to Lose?' Read This Heartbreaking Poem From a Florida School Shooting Survivor

"No one needs an AR-15 / Unless it is to kill and injure over seventeen"

By Sarah Begley

White Supremacist and Black Nationalist Groups Both Grew During Trump's First Year as President

"There has been a substantial emboldening of the radical right"

By Sarah Begley

9 Books to Read for Black History Month, According to Scholars

We asked historians to suggest classics and little-known treasures

By Sarah Begley

Eleanor Roosevelt's Real-Life True Love Takes a Novel Turn in White Houses

Time first wrote about Lorena Hickok (“Hick” to her friends) in 1934: “She is a rotund lady with a husky voice, a peremptory manner, baggy clothes. In her day one of the country’s best female...

By Sarah Begley

Why Olympic Medalists Get Stuffed Animals When They Win

Winners get to take home white tiger keepsakes this year

By Sarah Begley

This Boy Named Lucas Is the First Gerber Baby With Down Syndrome

"I just want him to look back and say, 'I was the Gerber baby. Look at everything I did'"

By Sarah Begley

Edmund White Wins 2018 PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Career Achievement in American Fiction

"Although I’ve won a few things in my life, I’ve never won anything so important"

By Sarah Begley

Lisa Halliday’s Asymmetry Is All About A Lopsided Romance

Lisa Halliday’s debut novel, Asymmetry, begins with a lopsided affair–a perfect vehicle for a story of inexperience and advantage. This romance is between Alice, a young woman in publishing, and Ezra Blazer, a literary éminence...

By Sarah Begley

Zadie Smith’s Feel Free Shows She’s a Renaissance Woman

In an essay in her new collection, Feel Free, Zadie Smith writes, “When I find myself sitting at dinner next to someone who knows just as much about novels as I do but has somehow...

By Sarah Begley

The Sad and Inspiring Story Behind the Police Officer at the State of the Union Who Adopted a Heroin Addict's Baby

When Officer Ryan Holets came across a pregnant woman preparing to shoot up, he didn't know how much the encounter would change his life

By Sarah Begley
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