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True Grift
... life of Harvey Weinstein on the eve of his final trial verdict. “It wasn’t a conscious thing,” explained Cline, when asked why she attends to such monstrous figures, “I think it’s a function of...
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Love, Labor, Loss
... the button-sized chode beneath his gut. Vulgarity begets vulgarity. Four years later, I felt more unease and less glee when, in a trial that would find Harvey Weinstein guilty of criminal sexual...
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Bookforum talks with Amber Husain about her book-length essay Replace Me
... but in this interview she was discussing Hannah Arendt’s idea that “power flaunts itself in direct proportion to its having no foundation.” Talking about Oscar Pistorius and Harvey Weinstein (who...
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Saidiya Hartman and many others participate in Schomburg Center Literary Festival
... Megan Twohey and their groundbreaking reporting on the Harvey Weinstein sex scandal, which led to the bestselling book She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement...
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Jacqueline Rose’s new book on violence; “Columbia Journalism Review” contributors imagine transforming the industry
... Women, for the New York Times. In essays reflecting on Harvey Weinstein, sexual harassment, Anna Burns’s Milkman, and Trump’s “Global Gag Rule,” Rose examines “how violence first takes root in the...
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Oh, Mercy
... accounts of the authors’ horror at the sentencing of sexual abusers on criminal charges—Harvey Weinstein in one instance, Larry Nassar in another. The books have different approaches—one concentrates on...
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Bard Times
... marital dynamics anticipated “our modern-day black sites and their enhanced interrogation techniques.” The chapter on Shakespeare in Love is his weakest by far, tossing in Bill and Monica, Harvey...
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Sally Rooney on Henry James and long sentences; Ada Calhoun on the paradox of choice
... Shimbun reporter Eddy Martinez writes about taking a job as a placeholder for journalist Ken Auletta in the line for Harvey...
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Booksellers recap their favorite 2019 titles; Karl E. Meyer has died at ninety-one
... oversaw the paper’s reports on the allegations against Harvey Weinstein, and journalists Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey consider Corbett to be a crucial third member of their team, calling her their...
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NBC News digital employees unionize; Alexander Chee on writing the "other"
... Editorial employees of NBC News’s digital department are forming a union, the New York Times reports...
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2018 and 2019 Nobel Prize in Literature winners announced; Ronan Farrow on his new book
...-farrow-book-how-harvey-weinstein-may-have-leveraged-matt-lauer-1246149> the Hollywood Reporter about investigative journalism, his experience reporting on Harvey Weinstein, and his new book, Catch and...
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Atwood, Rushdie, and Others Give Advice on How to Write a Booker Contender
...-audience-at-jodi-kantor-and-megan-twoheys-she-said-event-on-harvey-weinstein-metoo> at a book event last week, during which he “repeatedly interrupted” authors Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey as they...