In Spoiled, Caitlin Macy gives a devastating diagnosis of the Upper East Side’s almost-rich.
An interview with Caroline Colom Vasquez, artisan and proprietor of Paloma’s Nest.
In great (lasting, challenging, beautiful, truthful, skillful) art – great film, great painting, great quilting, great photography – prurience has little place. However, nudity for a great filmmaker relates to film’s sense of time: it focuses on the impermanence of the body, while at the same time reveling in the beauty of the same body, as in each of these films.
Mike Rose expresses an ethic of care, directly wanting the good of “the other,” and as a model of this ethic, Rose is an exemplar for more than just teachers. Anyone who seeks to understand another person’s needs could use Rose as a model, particularly in their day-to-day vocation.
In Snark, David Denby sees a strain of nasty verbal abuse spreading through the national conversation.
Once we desire to stay at home more often, we’ll eventually realize how painful it’s been to be cut off from our roots. We’ll want to be reconnected, or feel the connection for the first time – to be firmly planted as aware beings, conscious of those living beside us, those within our walls, the crops outside our doors, and the nature beyond them.
The reports of journalism’s death are greatly exaggerated – but the landscape is changing.
Like so many of us, as a child I was taught to mind my manners. We called them P’s and Q’s, and to this day I still use them. I cover my mouth when I sneeze or yawn, try not to interrupt others when they are talking, hold the door open for the people, and say thank you. But I have to admit it: I have a problem being nice.
An experiment in wearing the same dress for a month achieves some surprising and thought-provoking results.