Back to the Garden: Jane Shaw's "Octavia, Daughter of God"
IN STYLE IT TOOK THE SHAPE of any other garden party, that signal diversion of the interwar years. Tea and jellies, dancing and croquet, "lemon-ade"...
IN STYLE IT TOOK THE SHAPE of any other garden party, that signal diversion of the interwar years. Tea and jellies, dancing and croquet, "lemon-ade"...
Lindsay RecksonJan 12, 2012
Whatever your take on this classically postmodern conundrum, you're liable to come away from Retromania with more questions than you had going in.
Mike McGonigalJan 9, 2012
21’s eloquence is visual, and it is a very real eloquence.
David RothJan 9, 2012
JUST WHEN YOU THINK AMERICA is going down the tubes, you read John Sullivan's essays (or David Foster Wallace's, or Rebecca Solnit's) and you think...
Susan Salter ReynoldsJan 7, 2012
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.
Brian Kim StefansDec 16, 2011
And so it was that daughters, perhaps more relationally adept on average, became the more fertile conduit for paternal ambition.
Michele Pridmore-BrownDec 16, 2011
Hainley’s occasional lashings are needles meant to puncture consensus.
Brian SholisOct 20, 2011
For Eddy, recognizing a revolution often means writing like a revolution, with whatever messiness and tedium that implies.
Josh LanghoffSep 29, 2011
The most detailed year-by-year look at Hollywood during the first decade of the Cold War ever published.
Steven J. RossSep 27, 2011
FOR A UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE, music can feel downright limiting sometimes. When I was 26 and reviewing records for Time Out New York (the weekly...
Sara MarcusSep 19, 2011
JANET MALCOLM'S Iphigenia in Forest Hills: Anatomy of a Murder Trial, an expansion of a 2010 New Yorker essay, explores Mazoltuv Borukhova’s trial...
Michael WashburnAug 18, 2011
Beauty linked to life and death.
Joy HorowitzMay 13, 2011
It is almost entirely abstract.
Joy HorowitzMay 13, 2011