In Snark, David Denby sees a strain of nasty verbal abuse spreading through the national conversation.
Our cultural imagination has us thinking the country life is the good and simple life. But it’s hardly the only simple life. The city has vast potential to provide an uncomplicated way of life – much more potential than it gets credit for.
Brian Eno is enough of a modern music legend that it can be difficult to see around him. One can choose any number of his legacies to consider.
Free Bubble Wrap andOther Joys of Urban Simplicity By Rebecca Tirrell Talbot Our cultural imagination has us thinking the country life is the good and simple life. But it’s hardly the only simple life. The city has vast potential to provide an uncomplicated way of life – much more potential than it gets credit for. [...]
On JCVD and the nature of celebrity.
From Newsweek: Inauguration poet Elizabeth Alexander – “The arts have a place in conversation”: What message do you think Obama is sending by including a poet in the ceremony? It’s that the arts have a place in conversation, that poetry, its distillation, its precision, its mindfulness, models for us a way that we might stop [...]
From The Nation: A lengthy and fascinating interview with Ted Solotaroff on his days at Commentary and the literary culture of 1960s New York. The first morning, I was shown into my office by Sherry Abel, the managing editor, a large, graceful, middle-aged woman with a droll air. “Norman wants you to read these,” she [...]
The focus of Mobile’s Mardi Gras is tradition and celebration rather than partying and drinking. Mobilians are right – it is family oriented and safe. And as a non native, what I know for sure is it’s a whole lot of fun.
If we are, in fact, in store for tougher times, then I take comfort in the resilience of a gridiron jock who won with humility.
Fifty years later, Robert Frank’s Americans are just as strange and striking, still alive and worthy of meditation. This may be, in part, because his Americans are simply living.