From City Journal: Beauty and Desecration. At some time during the aftermath of modernism, beauty ceased to receive those tributes. Art increasingly aimed to disturb, subvert, or transgress moral certainties, and it was not beauty but originality-however achieved and at whatever moral cost-that won the prizes. Indeed, there arose a widespread suspicion of beauty as [...]
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From the Washington Post: Le Sandwich Takes a Bite Out of French Tradition. The shifting lunchtime habits, which are more pronounced in large cities such as Paris, are part of a social tug of war in France between the imperatives of a modern industrial economy and a long-cherished tradition of fine food produced and prepared [...]
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From Image Journal’s Good Letters blog: Who Wrote Holden Caulfield? So it’s no surprise that Salinger’s lawyers are now going after 60 Years Later: Coming Through the Rye, a book written by a pseudonymous Swedish author J.D. California, which is billed as a “sequel” to Catcher in the Rye. Details are sketchy (the book is [...]
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Upgrade Me By Jonathan Fitzgerald Are we getting better, or just newer? Lost in the Cosmos By Casey Downing The off-Broadway play Night Sky deals with language, selflessness, and a world rearranged. Night In At The Movies By Sarah Hanssen Why – and how – to start a movie night in your home.
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Dealing with language, selflessness, and a world rearranged.
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Is the constant rush to upgrade a good or bad thing? Or is it both?
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Some guidelines for starting a movie night.
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From the New York Times’ City Room blog: On Governors I., an Organic Farm With a View. The farm will have close ties to New York Harbor School, which is scheduled to move from Bushwick, Brooklyn, to the island in 2010. The farm will provide produce, and students can volunteer and do science work there. [...]
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From More Intelligent Life: A review of the “Model as Muse” exhibit at the Met. As the curatorial notes put it, models are those “whose elegant poses and gestures” evoke the attitudes of the day. The show makes clear that this is partly something a model can control and partly something she is simply, ineffably, [...]
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From the LA Times: The Truth About Writers. But we writers have a secret. We don’t spend much time writing. There. It’s out. Writers, by and large, do not do a great deal of writing. We may devote a large number of hours per day to writing, yes, but very little of that time is [...]
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