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Alexandra Jacobs

Alexandra Jacobs

Book Critic at The New York Times Online

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  • English
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  • Books

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Recent Articles

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It’s Hard to Be the Brother of a Genius Who Died Young

In “Ira Gershwin: A Life in Words,” Michael Owen offers a sympathetic portrait of the lyricist, overshadowed in a life that had him tending the legacy of his younger sibling George.
9 days ago
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From Tarot Cards to Streamlined Design, We Can’t Stop Predicting th...

In “A Century of Tomorrows,” Glenn Adamson offers a hurtling history of the art, science and big business of looking ahead.
16 days ago
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Edna Ferber Wrote ‘Giant.’ James Dean, Rock Hudson and Elizabeth Ta...

In “Giant Love,” the novelist’s great-niece chronicles the Texas saga’s divisive reception and the epic film adaptation that’s now better known than the book.
21 days ago
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In a No-Nonsense Memoir, Cher Traces the Path to Stardom, With and ...

The first volume of her frank autobiography is a testament to resilience, chronicling a grim childhood and the brazen path to stardom, with and without Sonny.
28 days ago
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Shopping and Shame Share the Shelves in ‘American Bulk’

In an eye-opening collection, Emily Mester considers why she, and we, seek satisfaction by obsessively choosing, buying and rating the objects we desire.
30 days ago
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A Heady History of the Novel Embraces Works That Shock, Not Soothe

A Heady History of the Novel Embraces Works That Shock, Not Soothe
about 1 month ago
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Where’s Johnny? The Biography of a TV Host Whose Life Was a Closed ...

Johnny Carson dominated late-night television for decades, but closely guarded his privacy. Bill Zehme’s biography, “Carson the Magnificent,” tries to break through.
about 2 months ago
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How the Sound of Music Can Be Healing. Literally.

Three new books make the case for music as medicine. In “The Schubert Treatment,” the most lyrical of the trio, a cellist takes us bedside with the sick and the dying.
about 2 months ago
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From the Golden Age to the Streaming Age, Hollywood Has Been Hell f...

Dorothy Parker worked on the script for “A Star Is Born,” but the tragic ending was all hers, while Bruce Eric Kaplan manages to find the mordant laughs in today’s industry foibles.
2 months ago
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Friends With Benefits, but Without Illusions

In “Don’t Be a Stranger,” Susan Minot once again explores female desire, staging a romantic collision between a divorced mother and a much younger musician.
2 months ago
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From Melania Trump: Modeling, Motherhood and a Brazen Whitewash of ...

Slim and full of obfuscations, her memoir touches on business ventures and raising her son, but barely grapples with the mysteries of her marriage.
3 months ago