When Ann Manov was an undergraduate humanities student at the University of Florida at the beginning of the 2010s, Florida ...
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Age of Cage: Four Decades of Hollywood Through One Singular Career, by Keith Phipps. Henry Holt. 288 pages. $27.99. Last fall, hoping to draw weary crowds back to the multiplex, AMC Theatres enlisted ...
That summer we lived in two houses, one after the other. I had remembered it as two summers, but my brother, Gabriel, reminded me, no, it was all one summer, 1961, when he turned six and I turned ...
The Man Who Invented Motion Pictures: A True Tale of Obsession, Murder, and the Movies, by Paul Fischer. Simon and Schuster. 416 pages. $28.99. On the morning of October 14, 1888, Louis Le Prince set ...
From “Save Penn Station,” which was published in Issue 31 of the New York Review of Architecture. “Hellhole” was the word that New York governor Kathy Hochul used for the existing Pennsylvania Station ...
“It may be,” Edmund Wilson wrote in 1929, “that the United States will develop into a great imperialistic power with all its artists, critics, and philosophers as ineffective and as easily ...
Vermeer: A Life Lost and Found, by Andrew Graham-Dixon. W. W. Norton. 416 pages. $45. There’s an anecdote that crops up sooner or later in almost any book about Johannes Vermeer. In 1663, a French ...
Cosmic Music: The Life, Art, and Transcendence of Alice Coltrane, by Andy Beta. Da Capo. 480 pages. $32.50 She had so many names, it’s sometimes difficult to know which one to use. They succeed one ...
From the Archive Timeless stories from our 175-year archive handpicked to speak to the news of the day.
Do I imagine it,” the disquieted American visitor asks his wife one night in bed, “or is it true that when they speak of the Nazis—downstairs, I mean—the very next sentence is invariably some quite ...
May I be forgiven if I take as my text the sixth page of the fourth chapter of The Bonfire of the Vanities? The novel’s main character, Sherman McCoy, is driving over the Triborough Bridge in New York ...
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