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By Andre Aciman With incandescent prose and vibrant imagery, Andre Aciman evokes the rich, kaleidoscopic and sensual experiences of his coming-of-age in his memoir, Roman Year (FSG, $30,9780374613389). Just before [...]

What prompted you to write this book? This was a pandemic project. Covid took hold in Singapore in early April 2020, and just like everyone else I was freaking out. [...]

By Connie Chung MEMOIR Connie Chung broke the glass and bamboo ceiling when she became the first Asian American woman to co-anchor a national news broadcast program, joining Dan Rather [...]

Golden Years By James Chappel HISTORY There will soon be more Americans over 65 than under 18. In the compelling study, Golden Years: How Americans Invented and Reinvented Old Age [...]

By Mara Kardas-Nelson Who wouldn't want to keep reading a book that opens with these lines: 'Yabom was lucky. She heard one flat tone, then an abrupt pop. A moment [...]

Marine biologist and ecologist Christine Figgener was in an undergraduate research program in Egypt when she encountered her first sea turtle and, mesmerized, watched it swim through the waters of [...]

Jewel Brown, a renowned jazz and blues vocalist from Houston, has passed away at the age of 86. She had a successful career, performing with artists such as Louis Armstrong and recording several albums. Her memorial celebration took place at the Emancipation Park Cultural Center and the Eldorado Ballroom, where she was remembered by fans, musicians, and community members. The document also briefly mentions the deaths of other notable figures in the music industry, including John Mayall, Nick Daniels III, James "Bubba" Norwood, Big Ron Hunter, Yasufumi Higurashi, and Robert Whitall Jr. [Extracted from the article]

In Traveling (Dey Street, June; p. 35), Powers delves into Joni Mitchell's genre-bending music and the forces that shaped it. You write that this isn't a standard biography. Can you [...]

* John Lewis Like his mentor Martin Luther King Jr., John Lewis had a dream. Amid the turmoil and violence of a segregated South and a nation embroiled in the [...]

Goodbye Russia By Fionna Maddocks Biography When 44-year-old Sergei Rachmaninoff packed a single bag and boarded a tram in November 1917, he 'was aware that I was leaving Moscow, my [...]

* Gator Country By Rebecca Renner Nature Investigative journalist Rebecca Renner's breathtaking Gator Country: Deception, Danger, and Alligators in the Everglades (Flatiron, $29.99, 9781250842572) brims with exhilarating tales of the [...]