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2025年1月14日 · A former New York City dancer reflects on her zesty heyday in the 1970s. Discovered on a Manhattan street in 2020 and introduced on Stanton’s Humans of New York Instagram page, Johnson, then 76, shares her dynamic history as a “fiercely independent” Black burlesque dancer who used the stage name Tanqueray and became a celebrated fixture in midtown adult theaters.

2024年2月27日 · The Kirkus Star. One of the most coveted designations in the book industry, the Kirkus Star marks books of exceptional merit. The Kirkus Prize. The Kirkus Prize is among the richest literary awards in America, awarding $50,000 in three categories annually.

2024年2月27日 · The Magazine: Kirkus Reviews Featuring 314 industry-first reviews of fiction, nonfiction, children’s, and YA books; also in this Spring Preview issue: interviews with Grady Hendrix, Imani Perry, Matthew Cordell, Shannon Lee & Fonda Lee; and more

2025年1月14日 · The noted traveler, journalist, and author turns to an unexpected subject: the monastic life of contemplation and meditation. Iyer takes his title from the great fires that have lately ravaged California, where he has long retreated to a monastery run by Camaldolese monks, “the most contemplative congregation of Benedictines.”

2024年11月17日 · Connie Chung. Ralph Waldo Emerson. Martha Graham. Malcolm X. Elon Musk. These figures would likely make for strange tablemates at a dinner party.

2024年11月20日 · The winners of the 2024 National Book Awards were announced Wednesday evening at a ceremony in New York hosted by actor and author Kate McKinnon.

2024年6月25日 · A young woman’s experience as a nurse in Vietnam casts a deep shadow over her life. When we learn that the farewell party in the opening scene is for Frances “Frankie” McGrath’s older brother—“a golden boy, a wild child who could make the hardest heart soften”—who is leaving to serve in Vietnam in 1966, we feel pretty certain that poor Finley McGrath is marked for death.

2024年9月17日 · The feds must protect an accused criminal and an orphaned girl. Maybe you’ve met him before as protagonist of The 6:20 Man (2022): Ex-Army Ranger Travis Devine, who’d had the dubious fortune to tangle with “the girl on the train,” is now assigned by his homeland security boss to protect Danny Glass, who's awaiting trial on multiple RICO charges in Washington state.