Month: November 2021
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The Year in Books
This late-1921 article recapping the year in books predicted: “The average of fiction was but fair, and it is to be doubted if anything of lasting import appeared.” Well, now we know: nothing of lasting import appeared. Looking at the Publishers Weekly list of the 10 bestselling novels of 1921, as of this writing, only four…
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The Child, the Book and the Movie
In 1921, as the nascent medium of film had recently soared in popularity, New York Times Magazine commissioned a debate: would movies decrease or increase children’s love of reading books? Alexander Black predicted it would increase, though his argument was in no small based on how movies of the time required considerable reading with title cards…
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A regular season sports game as a NYT front page headline
Ostensibly, the focus of this website is to highlight the most interesting articles from the New York Times Magazine 100 years ago to the week. But when going back to the November 6, 1921 issue, something on the front page caught my eye. And since I determined it was more interesting than anything from that issue’s actual…
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