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And the Gold Goes to . . .
If Olympic medals were awarded for anthology making, this year's gold would surely go to Mark Ford, whose London: A History in Verse (Harvard University Press) has hit UK bookstores and will soon be…
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Good-bye, Celeste Holm, 1917-2012 (by Laura Orem)
The great character actress, Celeste Holm, died this past weekend at age 95. Miss Holm was a fixture in the acting world for more than six decades. The first Ado Annie in Oklahoma, she famously…
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Take an Island Vacation in NYC: Hop the Ferry to Staten Island for Matthea Harvey and Justin Bennett’s “stillspotting nyc: staten island” Installation
Many times in years past we've sought respite from New York City's steamy summer heat by hopping the ferry to Staten Island. The trip takes roughly 25 minutes, there's a breeze off the water,…
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Aram Saroyan on Bob Dylan and the Subterranenan Homesick Sixties
<<Robert Duncan, one of the key figures of the San Francisco poetry renaissance of the 1950s in which the Beat Generation surfaced, once said that he didn't believe there was any such thing as…
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François Hollande Gets Real [by Alice Kaplan]
François Hollande was calm and presidential on French television yesterday. Speaking of his function rather than his person, he suggested that the President of the Republic must soothe, conciliate, and compromise. In a world…
