The Speed of Light in the Golden West
Muybridge is not yet a household name, but given Rebecca Solnit’s excellent study (2003) along with the rich catalog for that art show, and now this suspenseful book, that might happen....
Muybridge is not yet a household name, but given Rebecca Solnit’s excellent study (2003) along with the rich catalog for that art show, and now this suspenseful book, that might happen....
A NEW TESTAMENT from Victor Navasky is a notable event. Former editor and publisher of The Nation, he is the Delacorte professor of journalism at Columbia University, chair of the Columbia Journalism Review, and director of the George Delacorte Center for ...
Afoot and light-hearted, I take to the open road,Healthy, free, the world before me,The long brown path before me leading wherever I choose. — Walt Whitman, Song of the Open Road THE FRANCO-AMERICAN WRITER JACK KEROUAC (1922–...
THE PHRASE "AMERICAN EXCEPTIONALISM" has a long, convoluted, and too often tortured track record. The Founding Fathers surely believed in it. Immigrants assumed it even before they got here. They believed they were coming to the land of opportunity, wealth, equality, ...
All Thomas Nast images courtesy of the University of North Carolina PressFrom Thomas Nast: The Father of Modern Political Cartoons San Francisco Fillmore image courtesy of New York University PressFrom Well Met: Renaissance Faires and the American Counterculture FOR MORE THAN ...
WHEN TWO OF THE GREATEST artistic talents of all time, living in the same urban hothouse, are enticed into intense rivalry by leaders and patrons of their community, the consequence is a consummate competition exacerbated by the politics of pride and ...
MAX ERNST, A GERMAN SURREALIST and sometime husband of Peggy Guggenheim (the famously promiscuous art dealer), once overturned a fully loaded ashtray on the bald head of Clement Greenberg, thereby crowning him “King of the Critics,” which indeed he ...
IN 1943-45 HOWARD ZINN SERVED as bombardier for a U.S. Air Force B-17. Initially, just 21 years old in the service, he found himself in transit to Europe in charge of a mess hall on the Queen Marythat served more ...
GORE VIDAL IS OFTEN TOUTED, particularly for this slight collection of four interviews, as the best conversationalist since Oscar Wilde. Let’s begin by explicating terms, or at least with etymologies, like the word “conversation.” Starting with the ...