Thoroughly Modern Elsa
Since her rediscovery by scholars over a decade ago, photographs of the Baroness have become, in their way, as iconic of the era of Dada as any.
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The Girl with the Father Tattoo
And so it was that daughters, perhaps more relationally adept on average, became the more fertile conduit for paternal ambition.
The Right Fit: Nicholas de Monchaux’s “Spacesuit: Fashioning Apollo”
The entire effort to go to the moon should be rightly understood as an elaborate apparatus for the production of a single television image.
World-Shifting: Haruki Murakami's "1Q84"
The novel is strongest when it sticks to its most powerful idea, the one implied by its title: the world as a kind of question.
Discoveries: Robert Vivian
Discoveries: Nathaniel Philbrick
The greed that reached full bloom here in our lifetimes was still a glimmer in Daddy's eye.
Discoveries: Christopher Merrill
The Return of the Gods
This is what the authors call the polytheistic life; or, more simply, the good life.
Southpaw Grammar
Although Smits casts a wide net and writes with evident enthusiasm, it isn't clear, by the end of the book, why he took the trouble to write it.
Genghis Khan's DNA
A Smooth Dialectical Dance
Waking from the Dream of Alaska
For Melinda Moustakis, Alaska is not a region of the imagination; it is a bracingly real place.
Taste is the Great Divider: On Pauline Kael
She had the devotion to an ideal shared by geniuses and sociopaths.
Half Termite, Half Elephant
A shotgun blast of multitentacled musings, it splatters the author's obsessions across the cultural landscape
Hell to Sit Next To: On Pauline Kael
Her effort, which was often comical in its intensity, was always aimed at aggrandizing herself.
We Will Re-Bury You
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