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EXCLUSIVE: What you won't read in Philip Roth's canceled biography: How the author shared a lingering kiss with widowed Jackie Kennedy after walking her home from a Manhattan dinner party and had a 'sexual friendship' with Mia Farrow The highly-anticipated authorized biography of Philip Roth was pulled this week after author Blake Bailey was accused of sexual assault  The book, released on April 6 and obtained by DailyMail.com, lifts the lid on Roth's misogyny and his own 'sexual depravity'  Bailey also sheds light on Roth's affairs and fleeting romances with high-profile women including Mi...

Print this article (scyther5/Getty Images) For those in search of a politics defined by more than material concerns, Coleridge is an indispensable guide. Earlier this week, Aeon published a fantastic essay by the scholar Peter Cheyne about Samuel Taylor Coleridge considered as a philosopher. Coleridge is one of those historical figures who looks a lot different when viewed through the eyes of posterity than he did to his contemporaries. We remember him now mostly as a young, opium-addled poet of wild-eyed genius — the author of “Kubla Khan” and “The Rime of the An...

Carol Prisant, Elegant Design Writer, Dies at 82 She was a 51-year old former antiques dealer with no experience as a writer when she wrote to the editor of The World of Interiors magazine about a job. She was hired. The design writer Carol Prisant in 2008. She was the author of several books, including a memoir of her life with dogs, “Dog House: A Love Story.”Credit...Michael Falco for The New York Times April 15, 2021, 7:07 p.m. ET Carol Prisant, an elegant design writer who was the New York editor of the idiosyncratic British magazine The World of Interiors, died on April 9 at a hospit...

Jeffrey Paley, journalist, gallerist and investor, dies at 82 Jeffrey Paley, who wrote for newspapers from Europe, championed young artists in SoHo and became a private investor, died of complications of the coronavirus on Feb. 27, 2021 at a hospital in Manhattan, his wife, Valerie Paley, said. He was 82. Wendy Mills via The New York Times. by Katharine Q. Seelye (NYT NEWS SERVICE) .- Jeffrey Paley had been working as a reporter at The New York Herald Tribune when the paper closed in 1966. He was determined to become a columnist in Europe but didn’t have a news outlet to write for. So he cli...

The Graduate is a milestone film (the third highest grossing movie ever) for Baby Boomers, who felt for the first time that Hollywood understood their generation and what it was striving to achieve. Directed by the older, non-American-born Mike Nichols, this is one of many ironies catalogued in a new exciting towering biography of a protean creative force in theater and film, replete with dazzling triumphs and crushing failures. Written by Mark Harris, the husband of gay playwright Tony Kushner ( Angels in America), but more importantly a highly respected popular cinema historian ( Pictures ...