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10 authors — and a couple of artists — make the rounds this fall

Joan Didion, Umberto Eco, Colin Meloy, Touré, the Boston Book Festival — just trucking out to all these "shows" could keep a person from ever actually getting around to reading a book.
Word and image
By EUGENIA WILLIAMSON | September 16, 2011

Writers celebrate Barry Hannah, the biggest literary badass you’ve never heard of

Gene Kwak first came across the work of Barry Hannah while studying journalism at the University of Nebraska.
Captain Maximus R.I.P.
By EUGENIA WILLIAMSON | October 29, 2010

Maybe

Frank Bidart adores the savage Catullan paradox.
Frank Bidart’s ambivalent appetite
By SVEN BIRKERTS | June 17, 2008

Super abundance

“Something absolutely extraordinary is happening in Venezuela,” announced Tony Woodcock.
Gustavo Dudamel and the Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela; James Levine’s Berg and Mahler; Measha Brueggergosman at Jordan Hall
By LLOYD SCHWARTZ | November 13, 2007

Harvard Square

Harvard Square was very different 40 years ago.
Ground zero for so much, for so many
By LLOYD SCHWARTZ | November 15, 2006

Bound for glory

For the record, some of us still read the New York Times Magazine the old fashioned way.
Agni, Night Train, and Ploughshares in the age of internet
By NINA MACLAUGHLIN | May 18, 2006

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