Belle Boggs’s thoughtful meditation on childlessness, childbearing and the agony in between is a personal tale and a dispeller of myths on infertility.
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Month: August 2016
Books of The Times: Tom Wolfe’s ‘The Kingdom of Speech’ Takes Aim at Darwin and Chomsky
Mocking leading theorists, Mr. Wolfe argues that the human gift for speech cannot be explained by evolution or structural linguistics.
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Books of The Times: In ‘Good Vibrations,’ Summer Fun Soured by Mike Love’s Score Settling
Mr. Love’s memoir of his long Beach Boys career offers lots of inside information but tends to be overpowered by boasts and grudges.
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About That Ouija Board: How Langdon Hammer Summoned a Poet’s Spirit
Mr. Hammer, who wrote a 2015 biography of James Merrill, discusses the poet’s mysticism, the biographer’s job — and the Ouija board.
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Ursula Le Guin Has Earned a Rare Honor. Just Don’t Call Her a Sci-Fi Writer.
The 86-year-old author will become one of the few living writers recognized by the Library of America, and she did it on her terms.
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