Sarah Begley

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Behind the Scenes of The Goldfinch, a Rare and Delicate Hollywood Specimen

On a March day on New York city's Upper East Side, producers huddle on the narrow first floor of an art gallery, studying their monitors and surrounded by pictures of flora and fauna. Eagles and...

By Sarah Begley April 30, 2021

Bill Gates Says This Book Is 'One of the Most Important' He's Ever Read

"Hans believed the world was making remarkable progress, and he wanted everyone to know about it."

By Sarah Begley April 29, 2021

6 Books to Read in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s Death

From broad biographies to niche studies of elements of his life

By Sarah Begley November 26, 2019

9 Questions With Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith

The poet laureate's new collection, Wade in the Water, deals with race, love and the Civil War

By Sarah Begley November 26, 2019

New Novels Take On the Reality of School Shootings

Maybe you don't want to read a novel about a school shooting; many people wouldn't. But if you are open, or even eager, to see how fiction can process one of the more painful elements...

By Sarah Begley March 29, 2018

The House of Broken Angels Is a Love Song to the Mexican-American Family

When the novelist Luis Alberto Urrea was 14 or 15, he took a trip deep into Mexico. He was born in Tijuana to a Mexican father and a white American mother before moving just across...

By Sarah Begley November 24, 2019

Sessions Blasts California's Sanctuary Laws as 'Radical'

"California, we have a problem."

By Sarah Begley March 7, 2018

What Exactly Is a Nor'easter? The Powerful Storm With a Strange Name Is Currently Pummeling the East Coast

The name alone might make you shiver in your boots

By Sarah Begley April 29, 2021

Marilynne Robinson on What It Means to Be a Christian in Trump's America

Marilynne Robinson is a dissident, though she may not sound like one. The 74-year-old Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and acclaimed essayist has made a peaceable career of rejecting commonly held opinions to look for a deeper...

By Sarah Begley November 24, 2019

What to Know about Edward Stack, the CEO of Dick's Sporting Goods

On Wednesday, Dick's Sporting Goods CEO Edward Stack announced the company would no longer sell assault-style rifles at any of its stores

By Sarah Begley April 29, 2021
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