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Enjoy a Book Tour, In Your Living Room Once a limited-capacity event, now a writer conversation can be enjoyed from the exclusivity of your living room. By Adrienne Gaffney March 13, 2021 Authors releasing books in the past year have experienced a radically altered literary landscape — perhaps most significantly, they have lost the ability to venture out on the standard book tour, which typically includes a series of readings and talks across the country. While many book lovers yearn for the ...

Kazuo Ishiguro Sees What the Future Is Doing to Us https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/23/magazine/kazuo-ishiguro-klara.html Credit...Jack Davison for The New York Times Sections Kazuo Ishiguro Sees What the Future Is Doing to Us With his new novel, the Nobel Prize-winner reaffirms himself as our most profound observer of human fragility in the technological era. Credit...Jack Davison for The New York Times Listen to This ArticleAudio Recording by Audm To hear more audio stories from publishers lik...

Now streaming on: "The White Countess" is a film about a man who dreams of owning the perfect little bar, a place of elegance that finds the delicate balance, as he thinks a woman should, "between the erotic and the tragic." Outside, it is Shanghai in 1936 and the world is late for its appointment with war. Inside the bar -- well, inside, Mr. Jackson muses, "With a good team of bouncers, you could conduct the place like an orchestra." Mr. Jackson is a blind man who stands, or sometimes leans, a...