The new book by Jodie Adams Kirshner follows seven residents of bankrupt Detroit, exposing the effects of decades of disinvestment and failed urban policy.
Guillermo del Toro and his co-writer, Cornelia Funke, stay faithful to the script, but ramp up the bleakness in this tale of a princess living through a brutal war.
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In 1958, Langston Hughes wrote for The Times about “Notes of a Native Son,” James Baldwin’s 1955 collection of essays meditating on race in America and Europe.