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• “But Sometimes When I Was Starting a New Story and I Could Not...

  

  “But sometimes when I was starting a new story and I could not get it going, I would sit in front of the fire and squeeze the peel of the little oranges into th... Read more

  Posted on 09 October 2013 CULTURE

• Fashionable Frenchies

  

  Fashionable Frenchies Read more

  Posted on 09 October 2013 CULTURE

• On New Lands The Thing About New Places, is That They’re...

  

  On New Lands The thing about new places, is that they’re old to someone else. What is spectacularly new is wildly next door to the Irishmen in the countryside. Read more

  Posted on 07 October 2013 CULTURE

• Nineteen Forty-six Was a Good Time—perhaps the Best...

  

  Nineteen forty-six was a good time—perhaps the best time—in the twentieth century. The war was over, the Depression had ended, and everyone was rediscovering th... Read more

  Posted on 21 August 2013 CULTURE

• Mrs. Miniver Packs the Gorgeous Greer Garson, Rose Competitions,...

  

  Mrs. Miniver packs the gorgeous Greer Garson, rose competitions, the literal fear of God, the English countryside, and a homemade bomb shelter into a story of... Read more

  Posted on 11 August 2013 CULTURE

• Stockholm Waterfront from Sodermalm and Norrmalm

  

  Stockholm waterfront from Sodermalm and Norrmalm Read more

  Posted on 26 July 2013 CULTURE

• Animals Have You Forgotten What We Were Like Then When...

  

  Animals Have you forgotten what we were like then when we were still first rate and the day came fat with an apple in its mouth it's no use worrying about Time... Read more

  Posted on 20 July 2013 CULTURE

• What Adrift Does Best, is Show That Nearly Everyone Has Enough...

  

  What Adrift does best, is show that nearly everyone has enough layers of their soul to love them on Monday and hate them on Tuesday. Debora Bloch is a hot Latin... Read more

  Posted on 20 July 2013 CULTURE

• Anthony Marra Feels a Little Like Michael Ondaatje with The...

  

  Anthony Marra feels a little like Michael Ondaatje with the whole sweeping war and loss and humanity. But Chechnya is a far cry from WWII’s the English... Read more

  Posted on 20 July 2013 CULTURE

• Two Movies of the Same Name. Both Prominently Featuring...

  

  Two movies of the same name. Both prominently featuring apartments. One in Manhattan, a few in Paris. Both involving scandalous affairs. Both well worth it. Read more

  Posted on 17 July 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Simon Van Booy is a Literary Gift. The Thoughtful,...

  

  Simon Van Booy is a literary gift. The thoughtful, philosophical, and introspective trifecta. His latest novel, The Illusion of Separateness explores the way... Read more

  Posted on 09 July 2013 CULTURE

• Gerhard Richter’s Betty at the Museum Ludwig in Cologne. I...

  

  Gerhard Richter’s Betty at the Museum Ludwig in Cologne. I first saw a comprehensive Richter exhibit at MOMA in NYC back in 2002 or 2003. The chasm that runs... Read more

  Posted on 20 June 2013 CULTURE

• **Spoiler Alert** There is a Point in This Novel, Somewhere...

  

  **Spoiler Alert** There is a point in this novel, somewhere three quarters of the way through, where you wonder whether Ms. Messud hasn’t maybe lost her mind a... Read more

  Posted on 04 June 2013 CULTURE

• Smashed is the Story of a Couple of Young Alcoholics—one...

  

  Smashed is the story of a couple of young alcoholics—one who realizes her struggle, the other who doesn’t. It spans what happens when one half of a couple... Read more

  Posted on 03 June 2013 CULTURE

• Julianne Moore, the Queen of Acting Queens, Full Interview On...

  

  Julianne Moore, the queen of acting queens, full interview on Fresh Air with Terry Gross here Read more

  Posted on 30 May 2013 CULTURE

• Three of the Most Searing Essays from Hemon’s Recent...

  

  Three of the most searing essays from Hemon’s recent autobiographical collection are the first, middle and last. “The Lives of Others” chronicles his hate,... Read more

  Posted on 29 May 2013 CULTURE

• A Wholly Realized Novel of Five Friends Who Meet at a Summer...

  

  A wholly realized novel of five friends who meet at a summer arts camp, and then spend the rest of their lives intertwined with one another through decades of... Read more

  Posted on 22 May 2013 CULTURE

• The North Coast of Rhodes and the Neo-classical Harbor of Symi,...

  

  The North Coast of Rhodes and the neo-classical harbor of Symi, Greece Read more

  Posted on 20 May 2013 CULTURE

• One of the Best Comedic Casts on Television. Zoey: Nights Are...

  

  One of the best comedic casts on television. Zoey: Nights are different. Jackie: Yes. More stab wounds, more drunks, less nutjobs, less children. Okay, you... Read more

  Posted on 14 May 2013 CULTURE

• Eugene Jarecki, of Why We Fight, Brings Together the Wire...

  

  Eugene Jarecki, of Why We Fight, brings together the Wire creator, David Simon, criminal justice professors at Harvard and Columbia, a somewhat remorseful judge... Read more

  Posted on 11 May 2013 CULTURE