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Jonathan Franzen, Helen Garner, Kazuo Ishiguro and other leading writers from home and abroad give thanks for the books that got them through a difficult year.
Jonathan Franzen, Helen Garner, Kazuo Ishiguro and other leading writers from home and abroad give thanks for the books that got them through a difficult year.
Jonathan Franzen, Helen Garner, Kazuo Ishiguro and other leading writers from home and abroad give thanks for the books that got them through a difficult year.
Did you know there were two big films titled “Lone Star”? We’ve added an alphabetized list of key movies about Texas. Texans adore movies about Texas and Texans. In my May 10 “Think, Texas” column ("Starring Texas: What you can learn about the state through its movies"), I tried to sort out what it means to be a “Texas movie,” and argued that such a film must be about our state, not just shot here. It must tell us something about who we are. I applied that standard to 32 movies, starting with the two versions of “The Trip to Bountiful,” one starring Gerald...
The Three Burials of Lotty Kneen: Travels with My Grandmother’s Ashes Lotty Kneen of Queensland – aka Dragica Marusic of Slovenia, the stern and silent maker of papier-mâché dinosaurs, dragons and elves, the grandmother who raised Brisbane-based author Krissy Kneen – was “the fiercely beating heart of the family”, someone who saw “any sign of love as a marker of weakness”. The author tells us this 50 pages into The Three Burials of Lotty Kneen, a brave, ambitious, engrossing and compassionate book that is part memoir, part biography, part elegy, part fairytale, part travelog...