Books
Long Way Back A Novel Brendan Halpin Villard: 212 pp., $22.95
Jan. 10, 2006
Lifestyle
I was at my friend Jane’s place in West Hollywood, where she was hosting a table read for one of her cool friend’s television pilots.
Nov. 8, 2018
Entertainment & Arts
While the article on “The Women” (“The Claws Are Out,” by John Clark, June 9) gives full credit to playwright Clare Boothe Luce, it compares the play with “George Cukor’s film adaptation.”
June 23, 2002
Four years ago, novelist Clare Boylan innocently asked a question at a literary festival in England that led to, of all things, her co-authoring a book with Charlotte Bronte.
April 19, 2004
Movies
Gary Leva’s “Plan B” offers a wry take on a group of 30-ish friends who are beginning to realize they haven’t achieved their goals.
Oct. 17, 1997
Karon Luce cooked dinner at home Sunday evening for her husband, Gordon; several other relatives, and close pals Charles and Susan Edwards.
June 5, 1986
FOR REASONS THAT remain obscure, I have always preferred to converse with women rather than men.
July 22, 1990
The Women Though director George Cukor’s 1939 comedy-drama famously features an all-female cast and it was adapted from Clare Booth Luce’s play by Anita Loos and Jane Murfin, it’s unlikely it would pass the Bechdel test as most of the snappy dialogue centers on the marriages — past, present and future — of the high-society set.
Jan. 26, 2018
Art of War A Graphic Novel Kelly Roman & Michael DeWeese Harper Perennial, $22.99 For 2,000 years, Sun Tzu’s “The Art of War” has dispensed battlefield strategy and tactics.
June 3, 2012
“Passing,” as Nella Larsen explains, is “this breaking away from all that was familiar and friendly to take one’s chance in another environment, not entirely strange, perhaps, but certainly not entirely friendly.”
Aug. 4, 2002